When the USA and Canada host the World Cup in 2026, along with Mexico, I hope the North American organizers tone down their love of statistics a little bit. Toronto FC are playing the first leg of their CONCACAF tie against Colorado tonight. Winter Olympics is dominating the TV so I checked the live update on TFC's website and was met with a wall of diagrams, graphs and tables..
Amongst them possession is broken down into 5 minute intervals, and passing accuracy includes "attacking half", "final third" and "crosses". And in the list of other stats, with the normal corners, offsides and fouls are a couple that amused me: "missed chances" and my favourite, "rules won."
The most important number, though, is Colorado 0 TFC 2. A good result, but selfishly I almost wish they hadn't won so comfortably so that the second leg that I am going to next week would have been more exciting.
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