Toronto FC 3 – 1 Montreal Impact FC
By Luis Martinez (Twitter @canadaluis)
Photos by David Chant ( Instagram)
Toronto, ON – Awesome night for the Canadian Champions at BMO Field, in front of 27,272 fans, battling out against their mythical war enemy Montreal Impact FC on the mark of the 401 Derby.
This poetry of a match started for Il Capo, Sebastian Giovinco, with a shot kicked with his right leg crashing the ball at the end of the net.
The defensive line of IMFC, was penetrated several times by the Ontario runners, every single movement of their forwards were stopped by the Michael Bradley guys on the defence.
Because Greg Vanney knew how to capitalize the Altidore absence, the dynamics between TFC revelation, Jonathan Osorio, and SG10 had the positive result in the 2nd goal for the Reds.
On minute 29′, Osorio takes the lead and scores the 3rd and which will be the definite goal for TFC.
On the other hand, the Uruguayan player, Alejandro Silva, scores for the Bleu, to keep some dignity on the field.
In the first part, IMFC had the ball possession, but never the control, that’s soccer and the team of Ontario knew that and they profited of all the spaces conceeded by the Québécois club.
The goalkeeper, Evan Bush, is too far off from the category of Alex Bono, who with humility and hard efforts kept ownership of his arc. Even if Clint Irwin would have been in the net, he is another guy with superior quality then Bush, who a this time looks to have no authority lver his defenders, on the contrary, he seems to be constantly yelling at his teammates, situation that affects their collective performance.
Montreal surely miss Maxime Crépeau, the Ottawa Fury FC cerberus who is on loan and having a great season on the team in the Canadian capital.
With a 3-1 end to this game, both teams have to work better in the future. It is a shame for a player of the category of Nacho Piatti, the ex- San Lorenzo player, is one of the last survivors in IMFC of that Concacaf Champions League final against Club America in 2015 at the Olympic Stadium of Montreal.
Piatti, like the rest of the immigrants in Quebec were obligated to learn the french language to play soccer, something normal for a foreigner, but not appropriate for a soccer player, who deserves to be followed by the media in Spanish, unfortunately even if the Argentinian asked for our presence, the Club limits theit credentials without consideration of the encouraging push it can give a player like Piatty being in the company of something familiar.
For the good of the Québécois fans, we hope one day the club will open their minds and door to the hard workers of the press who speak Spanish.
Match stats
Lineups
TFC – Alex Bono; Gregory Van der Wiel, Eriq Zavaleta, Drew Moor, Justin Morrow; Marco Delgado, Michael Bradley ©, Jonathan Osorio, Victor Vazquez (Ashtone Morgan 62’); Sebastian Giovinco (Jay Chapman 73’), Lucas Janson (Tosaint Ricketts 78’)
IMFC – Evan Bush; Bacary Sagna, Rod Fanni, Rudy Camacho, Daniel Lovitz; Ken Krolicki (Quincy Amarikwa HT), Samuel Piette, Micheal Azira; Alejandro Silva (Jeisson Vargas 58’), Ignacio Piatti, Saphir Taïder
Shots: TFC 12 – IMFC 16
Shots on target: TFC 5 – IMFC 6
Possession: TFC 51% – IMFC 49%
Fouls: TFC 5 – IMFC 9
Yellow cards: TFC 0 – IMFC 1
