Despite odd soccer shape, Yankee Stadium a perfect fit for Sebastian Giovinco
TORONTO — While Yankee Stadium has proved to be a strangely shaped home to soccer, it seems to fit Sebastian Giovinco.
The Atomic Ant has seven goals and three assists in four trips to the Bronx ahead of Wednesday’s visit by Toronto FC. That includes two hat tricks.
And he could have had more at in the tight confines of New York City FC’s historic home, missing a penalty in a wild 4-4 tie in June 2015, when he still scored three goals in just nine minutes.
Giovinco has feasted on the NYCFC defence, taking 28 shots (16 on target) in those four games — the last of which was a 5-0 humiliation in the second leg of last season’s Eastern Conference semifinal. Toronto won the playoff series 7-0 on aggregate.