Just as the Nashville SC players did at their expense Wednesday at Geodis Park, CF Montreal will try to find their way back to victory on Sunday afternoon thanks to the fact that they will be returning to their fortified castle which is increasingly proving. not friendly for opposing clubs.
That said, there’s no question that CF Montreal’s color carriers are less welcoming to Real Salt Lake (5-3-4), the next visitors to Saputo Stadium.
Despite a deficit in terms of goals scored (12) and received (16), the Utah team will present themselves at Stade Saputo on Sunday, ranking 5th in the Western Conference with 19 on points.
That was just one embarrassment to CF Montreal (6-4-2), who tied for second in the Eastern Conference with three other teams, just one point behind the Philadelphia Union.
This will be the first meeting between the two clubs since May 2019 and the Montreal team has a favorable 4-2-2 record since entering MLS against Real Salt Lake.
This record includes five straight games unbeaten (3-0-2) and four wins in most attempts in Montreal.
The Montreal organization’s last loss against Real Salt Lake was built on July 24, 2014. The Montreal Impact then scored 2 goals in 10 against 11 in the last 20 minutes of play, leading to a 3-1 defeat in Rio Tinto stadium in Sandy.
Midfielder Djordje Mihailovic knows some of Real Salt Lake’s current players, including some of the young Americans, and he expects quality opposition.
It’s a team that went through a new stage in coaching last year, and they’ve been a lot of heads in the playoffs said Mihailovic Friday afternoon, after CF Montreal’s training session at the Nutrilait Center.
You can’t underestimate this type of club, but I have a lot of confidence in our ability to play at home. We haven’t lost this year (at Stade Saputo). This is going to be a good game He added.
One game at a time
Sunday’s game against Real Salt Lake will be the first of five for Wilfried Nancy’s staff in front of their fans.
The series includes the quarter-final duel of the Canadian Championship, next Wednesday against Hamilton’s Forge FC, and two more games after the international break, against Austin FC, on June 18, and against Charlotte FC, on June 25 .
FC Cincinnati will also stop in Montreal on May 28th.
CF Montreal’s next outing won’t take place until June 29, against the Sounders in Seattle.
Of course we are happy to have this sequence at home. We knew we were powerful at home, that we played well, that we were confident to play at home argued Quebec midfielder Samuel Piette.
The preparation, too, is much easier. When you don’t have to travel, you don’t have to come back at dawn. We are happy He added.
Continuing in her speech since she will lead the team, Nancy does not view the next sequence of home games as a block and sets a specific goal of points to collect.
No. Never. Never in terms of points, never in terms of wins. It’s always in terms of ‘in the next game, we want to win it’. So, now what do we need to do to win it? What are we doing there? he recalls, before adding an exception to this rule.
On the other hand, if you ask me about the last five games of the season, I might have nuances in what I’m saying. But now, we’re in the middle of the season and the goal is to have the best performance to have the most points possible, pretty simply, before the break. I don’t think like, ‘if we have five points, it’s good, if we have eight points, it’s good.
In the loss against Nashville SC on Wednesday, CF Montreal saw their consecutive unbeaten games stop at eight (6-0-2). Moreover, the words two consecutive defeats have not been associated with the Montreal team since the beginning of March.
This is when the team has to deal with a busy schedule, with the start of the MLS season and the Concacaf Champions League tournament presented similarly, including two trips to Mexico.
In contrast to Nashville, it was a bit more complicated than we expected. On the other hand, the team pushed until the very end. We showed quite a bit of character despite this defeat and just a small mistake.Piette’s estimate.
We’re not losing head, not losing purpose, and most of all the humility we’ve had since the start of the season. It’s definitely disappointing. We want to continue this sequence. But now it is up to us to start anotheradded Piette.
Source: Radio-Canada
