Lucas Janson a great complement to Sebastian Giovinco

“Defence wins championships, offence sells tickets.” That is the traditional mantra that surrounds football, in every continent.

To Toronto FC’s luck, in the past years, their offence was fundamental in bringing silverware to the Six and that is mainly down to the chemistry which embodies the attacking pair formed by Jozy Altidore and Sebastian Giovinco, authors of 56 and 80 TFC goals respectively since wearing the red colours for the first time.

However, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction and the downside of this phenomenal duo was the fact that there was no replacement to it. Whenever one of them was absent, often Altidore this year, Vanney struggled to slot in a…