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TORONTO – Someone’s lying.

And it probably isn’t Jonathan Osorio.

Or Greg Vanney.

Or the Toronto Police.

Welcome to CONCACAF, where lines are blurred and chaos often ensues.

Osorio told the Toronto Sun post-game an opposing coach bashed his chin with a nasty elbow during halftime of Tuesday night’s Champions League win.

The 25-year-old TFC midfielder described how Club America personnel swarmed Sebastian Giovinco inside the tunnel at the break and accused the Atomic Ant of embellishment after drawing a first-half penalty that set the tone for this heated two-leg affair.

Coach Greg Vanney disagreed with Club America coach Miguel Herrera after the visiting gaffer alleged Toronto Police officers assaulted three Mexican players during the melee.

“I’m going to disagree with him strongly,” Vanney said. “That’s not what happened.

“One of their coaches took exception to the PK and was having a go at Sebastian. Sebastian kept walking. Johnny (Osorio) stepped in-between the assistant coach and Sebastian.

“I told the coach and the head coach that his coach shouldn’t be talking to our players and he needs to keep moving. The next thing was an elbow … It escalated from there.”

Vanney’s post-game remarks arrived minutes after Herrera sat in front of reporters for 18 minutes, claiming multiple Club America players were battered by local cops and threatening to take the issue to the top of the Mexican Football Federation.

“Multiple (Club America) players were involved in a brawl,” Herrera said through a translator. “The police hit (three players). In my opinion if police are going to be present in the tunnel area it should be to separate players, not hit players. There was a CONCACAF staff member who saw everything.