The fireworks were gone.

But the score remained the same, as Toronto FC went down 1-0 to FC Dallas before the smallest crowd ever to take in a TFC game in their home park.

That’s the same score the sides were at Wednesday night when the scheduled CONCACAF Champions League game was called after the half because of the electrified deluge that swept through the city.

The makeup game, pushed back to Thursday morning, was taken in by about 500 fans scattered through a sea of red seats at BMO Field.

In losing, the Toronto squad missed an opportunity to solidify their position in the Group C standings, where they must place in the top two of four teams to move on to the tournament’s next round.

TFC pressed hard in the game’s final 10 minutes, sending half a dozen shots towards Dallas goalie Kevin Hartman.

But the game’s only goal came during first-half stoppage time, when Dallas defender Jack Stewart, on loan to the team from the NASL’s Minnesota Stars, headed the ball past TFC goalie Milos Kocic on a cross from Ugo Ihemelu.

Kocic, who played an otherwise strong game, said his team needs to have better coverage around the net.

“When we play the set pieces, we have to stay tighter to the people so they don’t get a space,” the 6-foot-4 netminder said.

“Even if you push them a little bit, it’s going to be hard for him to score.”

Coach Aron Winter was generally pleased with the play of his team, especially in the second half when they persistently took the game deep into the Dallas end.

“We played very well, we made a lot of opportunities but we were missing making the goals,” said Winter, whose team had counted 14 goal attempts compared to nine for Dallas.

“If you watched the condition of the play . . . it was very good. We forgot to score.”

But Winter said the short turnaround, playing 45 minutes the night before a full morning game, would have been equally hard on both teams and was no excuse for the loss.

The 10:15 a.m. match was a makeup for one scuttled Wednesday which saw all fans evacuated from the steel box BMO after the game was delayed at the half with Dallas on top.

Though the paying patrons had been trundled out into the teaming rain, CONCACAF officials dithered for hours about calling the game, hoping to sneak it in before the Dallas squad had to leave for Kansas City, where they play an MLS match Saturday.

The compromise was to play Thursday morning, when almost no one could take the game in.

It was the second game this year at BMO cancelled by weather with Toronto down by one.

A Canadian Championship game against the Vancouver Whitecaps May 25 was called in a deluge. But that match was made up in June.

Neither team looked sharp Thursday, playing completely out of their routine and accustomed noise level. Despite the game being offered free to anyone attending the CNE, few fans took up the offer.

Yet it was arguably the biggest match of the year for the basement-dwelling TFC — playing out the string of their MLS season — who would have almost guaranteed advancement from Champions League group play with a win.

TFC defeated Group C rival Tauro FC on a shoddy field in Panama City last Thursday, and would have merely needed to draw over their remaining four group games to move on to the quarter-finals.

TFC had a good chance in the 12th minute when a ball crossed in from the wing eluded Hartman, but bounced back into his hands off of a teammate.

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Hartman bobbled the ball again in the 39th minute on a close in drive from TFC’s Joao Plata, but he managed to corral it.

The game’s lone goal came just minutes after Dallas captain Daniel Hernandez missed the net on a penalty kick, sending the ball wide of the post.

The six-game opening round, which also includes Mexico’s Pumas UNAM, sees each Group C team play each other in home and away games through mid October.