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Pozuelo understands what the betting odds mean, but is not about to wave the white flag.

“Yeah, it’s true. They are the favourite,” the Seville native said from the BMO Training Ground this week. “They play (the final) at home, they play with the people in their (stadium). So I think they are favourite. But we played in (MLS playoffs) in New York already, we played in Atlanta, we beat those two good teams.

“So, of course, we have a good chance. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t go there. We’d stay here,” he added. “They are the favourite because they play at home, not because they are better than us. We know we have a lot of quality. We’re going for the win, 100%.”

TFC finished fourth in the MLS Eastern Conference standings this season, but knocked off two higher-seeds on the road (New York City FC and Atlanta United) to get to Sunday’s MLS Cup final. The Reds have been nicknamed ‘The Road Warriors’ in these playoffs.

“We’ve been the underdogs since the first game of these playoffs,” TFC goalkeeper Quentin Westberg said. “Everyone has a different job. Some people talk about soccer, some people love soccer, come to stadiums for soccer. We soccer players are fortunate enough (that we can) maybe change fate or fight odds and I think we’ve been doing this pretty decently this year.”

As for playing in front of a huge, hostile crowd, none of the Toronto players seem fazed by it. Pozuelo has played in some of the biggest stadiums in his native Spain, including the 81,000 capacity Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid and his home ground when he played for Real Betis, the 60,000 seat Estadio Benito Villamarin. Westberg has played some international games for the U.S.