It certainly wasn’t the start of the season that either Toronto FC or Orlando City would have been hoping for.
Collectively, they had amassed just four points in their first six collective MLS games — Orlando securing a point in a draw with Minnesota United; Toronto eeking out three in a win over Real Salt Lake.
But those first few-week stumbles, there has only been one team looking to rise the standings, and it is not the one that most would have predicted before the season ever got underway.
Since those first three matches, two of which were lost, Orlando proceeded to win six-straight, an equal-best record in the history of the organisation.