NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sam Surridge scored his 18th goal of the season, Joe Willis earned his ninth clean sheet and Nashville beat Toronto FC 1-0 in Major League Soccer action on Saturday night.

Nashville (14-5-5), which won its ninth home game this season, set a franchise record for wins during the regular season, topping 13 set in 2022 and ’23.

Nashville is unbeaten in its last six matches against Toronto (5-12-6), outscoring the Canadian side 8-3. Nashville is also undefeated (3-0-0) against Toronto when Surridge scores.

Surridge scored in the 28th minute. Goalkeeper Sean Johnson made a diving save off of Hany Mukhtar’s left-footed shot outside of the box but it spilled to Surridge for an easy finish.

Surridge became the 10th player in MLS history to score at least 18 goals in his team’s first 24 games of a season and the first to do so since Carlos Vela and Josef Martínez in 2019.

The shutout victory marked Willis’ 76th career MLS regular- season clean sheet and his 101st career MLS regular season win.

"I should probably start by saying nobody's satisfied with the loss, but what an effort they put in and fought to the very last, fought to the death," said Toronto head coach Robin Fraser. "And on a different day, maybe when those chances late, goes in and you'd say, what a great road performance the effort put in.

" … I think it (the play leading up to the goal) was a foul. Personally, after tonight, I'm not really sure what's a foul and, to be quite honest, I think a number of calls were missed on both sides, but I do think it was a foul."

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