There are no shortage of narratives surrounding this one, from Cyle Larin and Will Johnson’s returns to Toronto to the potential for this to be a clash of two of the Eastern Conference’s top teams.
It is no surprise Toronto FC fit into that bracket, but Orlando City’s start to the season has been more unexpected. Jason Kreis’ team has undoubtedly benefited from playing five of their first seven matches at home, but sometimes if you start believing that you’re a good team you actually turn into one. As Johnson put it in an interview with the Toronto Sun: “Guys on their own understand that we’re tasting a little bit of success, but instead of letting that go to our heads we’re kind of getting addicted to that.