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TORONTO — Despite suffering a humiliating 4-0 loss to Club Atletico Independiente de la Chorrera in Panama, Toronto FC coach Greg Vanney says his side can rebound in the return leg of the CONCACAF Champions League round-of-16 game Tuesday at BMO Field.

But Vanney says his players will have to up their intensity in order to get out of the deep hole they dug themselves Tuesday in Central America.

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“I truly believe that if we perform well, we will get a positive result,” Vanney said Friday. “And we didn’t perform well on so many levels in this past game.”

“I still think we can turn this around,” he added.

Goalkeeper Alex Bono agreed.

“By no means are we out of this,” he said. “We have to believe that we can go in next week and really make a comeback for the ages.”

Toronto will have to score a bucketful of goals and keep Independiente off the scoresheet, given away goals count double in event of an aggregate tie.