we just couldn't get a break."
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• With the end of the game, the TFC scoreless streak had reached 642 minutes, shattering Real Salt Lake's single-season mark of 557 minutes in 2005. The only other time a team went scoreless over six consecutive games at any point was the Kansas City Wizards, who were held scoreless in the final three games of the 1998 season and first three of 1999 (637 minutes in all).
• "I think it's most frustrating than anything. When you do work hard and you think you deserve something and you don't get it, it's frustrating," said Jim Brennan. "Now, the thing is we're a good group of guys we work hard for one another, we're all sticking together and we know it's going to come -- it's a matter of just when."
• With the injury to Welsh, Marvell Wynne made his first start for TFC since July 22, missing three full games to a hamstring injury. But Johnston tried him as the wide right-sided midfielder.
• "I don't think I played very well at all," Wynne said. "Maybe if I get some more training under my belt, it could be a position I could be playing in the future. Obviously I tried my best, but right back is still my position. I had a couple of opportunities to maybe put the ball into the center, but I can never say I'm better there than maybe Welsh or [Samuel] in that position because they're more comfortable with the ball."
• Toronto started the first four games in club history without a goal, and now have the seven-game stretch, meaning they own both records for longest without scoring (most minutes to begin a season).
• "We're going through a little sticky patch at the moment," said midfielder Carl Robinson, who will miss the FC Dallas match while on national team duty with Wales. "Performance-wise I think we're playing well. Goals-wise we obviously cannot score. We're throwing kitchen sinks at teams and not scoring. It's that type of luck we're having at the moment. The effort was there, the commitment was there, a little bit of frustration is there at times, but the final result isn't there."
• But then the Reds' hopes were dealt another blow during the week when Danny Dichio suffered a foot injury during training. TFC has been outscored 12-1 in matches the English forward has missed, and it was Dichio who snapped Toronto's season-opening 383 scoreless streak with the opening strike in TFC's 3-1 win against Chicago on May 12 -- also the first goal in club history, and the first of Dichio's team-leading five goals.
• Johnston said a contributing factor has been the amount of action many of his players have seen, with no break at all after playing overseas through the spring then jumping into the MLS season.
• On Thursday, TFC released winger Andy Welsh, who signed with Blackpool of England's Coca-Cola Championship (second tier) on a free transfer. "We found a way of getting him back over to England, and it worked out for both camps," said Johnston. "He's happy and we're happy. It's always sad to see a younger kid leave."
