Sebastian Giovinco’s early goal holds for Toronto’s 1-0 win over DC

WASHINGTON – The game was over almost before it even began.

Sebastian Giovinco’s goal in the first minute stood up in Toronto FC’s 1-0 victory over DC United on Saturday.

The Italian strikers’ goal was scored just 58 seconds in and was the fastest goal scored in club history.

“Yeah (it’s) tough not to be pleased with that start, it was good,” said Toronto coach Greg Vanney. “I think as the game went on we had to dig a little bit for the rest of the game but we did what we had to do. That’s a sign of this team growing from where it was last year to where it is this year.”

“Six games on the road and were at less than one goal a game average on the road and that’s pretty good.”

Jozy Altidore got to the ball inside the box to the right of goalkeeper Travis Worra and rolled a cross that a sliding Marco Delgado reached and redirected a bit to his left and Giovinco was on the spot to tap it in for his fourth goal of the season.

That was enough for Toronto (2-2-2) to end a three-match winless streak as goalkeeper Clint Irwin made three saves. The toughest save came in the 30th minute when he got a hand on a tight shot by Patrick Nyarko out of traffic in front of the net.

DC (1-3-3) had 18 attempts but 10 were off target.

Toronto playing its sixth straight game on the road to open the season, had 10 shots, three on Worra.

— With files from The Canadian Press