An old friend came back to haunt Toronto FC Wednesday night.

Deemed surplus to TFC’s needs back in January, Dominic Oduro’s aggregate winner minutes from full-time helped the Montreal Impact bounce TFC from the Canadian Championship on away goals.

The Reds traded Oduro for, more or less, a bag of balls earlier this year and the Ghanaian winger has found something of a resurgence under head coach Frank Klopas in Montreal.

“If you have a coach that gives you the ability to do what you do best it helps,” Oduro said. “(Klopas) knows my ability.”

Funny enough, the decisive moment he produced minutes from full-time Wednesday night had nothing to do with speed or ball control, two of Oduro’s best attributes.

Trailing 3-2 on aggregate with five minutes remaining, Oduro rose to head home an Eric Miller cross to even the two-leg tie. The Impact advanced on away goals after claiming a 1-0 win at Saputo Stadium last week.

“You guys want to get me in trouble, right?” Oduro said with a laugh when media found him outside BMO Field.

He didn’t celebrate in front of his former home supporters, but admitted it felt good to bounce the team that traded him away.

“I was just in the moment,” Oduro added. “I was celebrating in my head, let’s put it that way.”

The Reds, though, have yet to win at the new BMO Field after falling 2-1 to the Houston Dynamo on Sunday.

Head coach Greg Vanney surprised many by rolling out his big guns for Wednesday night’s Cup game with a league match at New England looming large on Saturday.

“I thought our performance, overall, was controlled,” Vanney said in what turned out to be a 3-2 second-leg win. “We had a lot more of the ball. We had some chances. I thought we were one pass away from a lot more chances.”

The Reds were flying high when Jozy Altidore cancelled Kenny Cooper’s first-half opener before halftime.

The U.S. international latched onto a perfectly weighted through ball from Sebastian Giovinco before finishing first-time from an angle to finally give the 21,069 in attendance something to cheer about.

Coming out of the break, the Reds continued to completely dominate the proceedings.

The club’s Designated Players — Michael Bradley, Giovinco and Altidore — were everything they’re supposed to be.

Toronto’s American internationals hooked up for the aggregate equalizer just before the hour mark when Bradley picked out Altidore in behind Montreal’s defence.

Altidore — who finished the game with a goal and two assists — curled in a cross for Benoit Cheyrou to finish off.

A minute later, with Toronto FC in complete control, Giovinco showed his class when he latched onto a through ball from Altidore before curling an effort back post to make it 3-1.

“(Our strikers) created a lot of problems for them,” Vanney said, looking for positives despite the outcome. “They were able to receive balls and run at the back line. They’ll continue to progress and read each other on those final runs.”

But the Reds were playing with fire after not finding an insurance goal.

Up 3-2 on aggregate heading into the final moments, Toronto FC dropped back in an effort to counter the changes Montreal made in desperation.

And, once again, the Reds simply couldn’t hold the fort.

Just when it looked like Toronto FC were about to restore its good fortune, Oduro — the last person one would expect to rise above everyone — beat Chris Konopka with his head.

It marked the sixth time this season Toronto FC has conceded multiple goals.

“The first goal we conceded was off missed assignments,” Vanney said of Cooper’s opener, which came off a recycled corner. “Guys lost their marks. We moved to where we thought the ball was going to go and didn’t deal with the guys.

“On (Oduro’s goal) it was a guy we lost at the back post off the back shoulder of our centre back. It was a good cross, but we’ve got to lock in and make sure he doesn’t get a free header.”

The Reds continue to give a lot of “free” things away.

Now they’re out of the Cup, with a difficult away fixture looming in Foxborough, Mass.

Toronto FC trotted out its big guns Wednesday night to get back in the win column.

While they did, it wasn’t quite good enough, which means it might have been all for nothing.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME*

“Everyone is welcome” to join and sit with Toronto FC’s raucous supporters group.

That is, everyone besides the foursome MLSE vowed to officially ban from BMO Field prior to Wednesday night’s match.

Shawn Simoes and Ryan Hart — along with two more unnamed individuals — are set to receive the indefinite punishment for their roles in an incident involving a CityNews reporter following Sunday’s 2-1 loss to the Houston Dynamo.

“The individuals involved in Sunday’s unfortunate incident do not represent the views of Red Patch Boys or soccer supporters in general,” a spokesperson for the group said in a statement e-mailed to the Toronto Sun.

“RPB prides itself on being an inclusive group. Everyone is welcome regardless of gender, race or sexuality. Although the attention this has raised has cast TFC supporters in a negative light, we hope it will prevent similar incidents from happening again in the future.”

After an unidentified TFC goer said “f--- her right in the p----” into Shauna Hunt’s mic, the CityNews reporter turned the mic on Hart and Simoes.

Hart told Hunt he was waiting for an opportunity to repeat the “f--- her right in the p----” while Simoes later told Hunt she was lucky she didn’t get a “vibrator” in her ear — all of it caught on tape.

Both identified men were TFC season-seat holders.

Simoes has since lost his Sunshine List job at Hydro One.