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Whitecaps’ defence-first strategy pays off in Montreal; Brovsky breaks nose and “maybe” his cheekbone

By
Mike Wyman
– 05/16/2013

Jeb Brovsky: Injured after collision with Jordan Harvey

Jeb Brovsky: Injured after collision with Jordan Harvey

The first leg of the Amway Canadian Championship final finished in a scoreless draw as the Vancouver Whitecaps played the Montreal Impact in front of an announced crowd of just over 12,000 fans at Saputo Stadium.

“It was a tight game tonight. Montreal has started the season very well with some excellent results. Tonight I think we did a good job of shutting them down, had a couple half chances ourselves,” said Vancouver head coach Martin Rennie.

“It would have been nice to have stolen one but overall we’ve given ourselves a good chance going into the second game. The game’s still alive. We get 10 days off before the next leg. It’ll be nice to be playing at home at BC Place but tonight I feel as if it was close game.”

The visiting side fielded a defensive lineup and left with the result for which it had hoped, to keep the home side off the scoreboard and return to their home pitch to try to prevail in Vancouver on the 29th of this month.

“I feel like on the road we’ve been a little bit too open. At times we’ve played quite well but our results haven’t been as good as I would have liked on the road so I felt we should become more difficult to play against,” Rennie opined. “I think the players did their jobs tonight. They made the game more compact and we weren’t as open and easy to play against.”
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Montreal coach Schallibaum: TFC could not deal with “injured tiger”

By
Mike Wyman
– 05/02/2013

Marco Di Vaio

Marco Di Vaio

For the first time in five years, the Amway Canadian Championship will not be awarded to Toronto FC, soundly drubbed by a Montreal Impact squad eager to erase its lacklustre performance of last Wednesday from its followers’ hearts and minds.

The 6-0 score probably did just that, provoking numerous pyrotechnic displays and enticing the almost 15,000 fans in attendance to end the game with repeated refrains of a Montreal standard usually reserved for the ice rink.

A contingent remained behind afterwards, singing as they awaited their heroes’ departure from Saputo Stadium for over an hour once hostilities came to an end.

“I felt all day that we were going to have a good result,” said head coach Marco Schallibaum. “I also felt it yesterday in training and during my pregame speech tonight. The guys were pumped.
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TFC continues Cup dominance of the Impact

By
Mark Polishuk
– 04/25/2013

Doneil Henry

Doneil Henry

The Impact is going to need its own version of the “Miracle In Montreal” if it’s going to finally defeat Toronto FC in an Amway Canadian Championship series.

The Reds took command of the tie with a 2-0 win in the opening leg at BMO Field, putting the Impact in dire straits as they head to Saputo Stadium for the reverse fixture on May 1. Granted, the Impact’s hole is not as large as the one TFC dug themselves out of in 2009 (when their 6-1 win in Montreal overcame a huge goal-differential deficit and clinched the club’s first Voyageurs Cup) but the Reds’ current two-goal edge gives the Impact have little room for error next Wednesday.

“We’re definitely capable of scoring two, three or four goals in a game,” goalkeeper Evan Bush said. “When it comes to Cup games crazy things happen and hopefully we can get on the board early next week, dictate the play and get the result we need.”

The Reds are now 7-0-2 all-time against Montreal in Voyageurs Cup play. It scarcely seems to matter who wears the jerseys for either club in this competition, whether it be the first-choice starters or, as was the case on Wednesday, many of the backups.

“No offence to anybody but to be fair it was pretty much our reserve team out there, a lot of us young boys,” midfielder Emery Welshman said. Read the rest of this entry »

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Young Impact side earns scoreless draw with the Union

By
Steven Sandor
– 02/16/2013

Karl Ouimette

The Montreal Impact played a bonus preseason friendly Friday night in Jacksonville, far away from the prying eyes who might be watching on web streams.

A youthful Impact side, with Evan Bush in goal, drew a Philadelphia Union team that had far more MLS experience on its side. The final score — 0-0.

The Impact and Union are currently both based in Orlando, Fla. for the Walt Disney World Pro Soccer Classic pre-season tourney. But both took what was an off-day in the tournament to head up the highway to Jacksonville to give their squads a little more game action.
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Di Vaio’s blast gives Impact the win over Fiorentina

By
Steven Sandor
– 11/15/2012

The Montreal Impact concluded its Italian tour of friendlies with a 1-0 win Thursday over Fiorentina.

In a game that the Italian side marketed as a return match of its 2010 friendly in Montreal, members were given the chance to buy tickets for five Euros, while others would have to pay 10 Euros to see the match. Judging by the smattering of fans seen in the video feed, those discount prices didn’t bring a stampede of fans to the gates.

But what most of the Fiorentina members would have missed was a composed performance by the visiting team. Marco Di Vaio scored the only goal of the match. His first-half marker came off an indirect free kick in the Fiorentina penalty area. The ball was quickly rolled back to Di Vaio, and the Viola’s purple wall of defenders was slow to react to the initial touch. Because the wall didn’t move towards Di Vaio, it allowed him a channel to blast his shot into the top corner of the net.
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Youthful Impact side beats Fiorentina’s reserves

By
Steven Sandor
– 11/13/2012

Oussama Essabr: Trialist scores for Impact

The Montreal Impact continued its postseason tour of Italy with a 4-1 win over Fiorentina’s reserve side.

In the team’s first Italy-tour match, a 1-0 loss to Bologna, acting coach Mauro Biello elected to start a veteran lineup. But, for this second match, he went with a team that was loaded with Academy players and trialists — and roster players looking to improve their standings with the club.

Bryan Arguez, the midfielder who spent half of the 2012 season on loan to FC Edmonton, played all of the 80-minute match in Florence. That’s significant because the Eddies have made it very public that they’d love Arguez to come back and take the holding midfield spot in 2013. But the Impact is giving the American midfielder a long look in this camp — and he may have played so well in his half-season in NASL, that he might have worked his way back into the Impact’s plans for the future.
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Impact falls to Olympique Lyon in penalties, but keeper Bush shines

By
Mike Wyman
– 07/25/2012

Evan Bush… shone in the Montreal goal

A $25 top ticket price, hot dogs for a buck until game time and the presence of a top-flight European side as the opponent combined to produce the Montreal Impact’s first virtually sold-out house of 2012.

A friendly against Olympique Lyonnais that drew 19,225 spectators, a number that filled all the available seats in the house, ended in a 1-1 draw after regulation time and then extended into a shootout with the French team capturing the night after scoring on four of its five extra shots while the Impact only netted two.

“It was a very good game and good entertainment for the spectators. It was different. From my point of view I would have liked would have liked my team to concede fewer chances, especially in the first half,” said Olympique Lyonnais head coach Remi Garde after the match. “The reason the game was very interesting for my team was the fact that we’re in preseason and so we needed tough opposition and we think we had it today.”
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Bush can’t prevent Impact from losing to D.C. United

By
Steven Sandor
– 07/01/2012

Evan Bush

After being humiliated by Toronto FC on Wednesday, and dealing with the sweltering heat in Washington, D.C. in the midst of a punishing stretch of the schedule, Montreal Impact coach Jesse Marsch’s decision to make sweeping changes to his lineup wouldn’t have surprised anybody.

But the biggest of those changes was his decision to give keeper Evan Bush his first start with the Impact — in MLS. But Bush could do nothing to prevent the Impact from a 3-0 loss.

Bush was helpless as the Impact’s rebuilt backline was caught flatfooted late in the first half, and Chris Pontius buried the goal to give D.C. United a 1-0 lead. He also picked the ball out of his net early in the second, when defender Robbie Russell headed home a Branko Boskovic free kick. The rout was complete when Boskovic scored right before the final whistle.
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Impact players buoyed by turnout at Olympic Stadium open house

By
Mike Wyman
– 03/16/2012

Montreal Ultras gather at Olympic Stadium open house Thursday night. PHOTO: MIKE WYMAN

The Montreal Impact held its pre-season open house on Thursday evening in front of about 2,000 of its most devoted fans at a poster-festooned Olympic Stadium, many drawn by the news that 1,000 tickets for Saturday’s opener were to be given away to the first folks turning up.

The event got underway with the introduction of the playing personnel in ascending numerical order, with captain, Davy Arnaud, being presented to the fans last.

The only players missing from the soiree were prospective US Olympian, Zarek Valentin, and Canadian, Evan James, who missed the season opener due to injury and is also on the preliminary Canadian men’s U-23 roster. Filling the ranks in their places were Montreal-area natives Karl Ouimette and Wandrille Lefevre, both members of the Impact Academy side.

All received a good hand, with local boy Patrice Bernier and veteran Eddy Sebrango getting the loudest acclaim from the assembled spectators, which also included a 50-strong delegation from the Ultras. They filled the time that the team spent loosening up before practice beating out rhythms and chanting selections from their repertoire, a bullhorn amplifying their vocal expression and exhorting the others in attendance to join in.
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Bernier scores in Impact’s final Disney Classic match

By
Steven Sandor
– 03/01/2012

The Impact's Matteo Ferrari leaps over the Dynamo's Brian Ching. PHOTO: MONTREAL IMPACT

The Montreal Impact got a goal from hometown signing Patrice Bernier, but that was about the last positive result the team got out of its abbreviated stay at the preseason Walt Disney World Classic.

The Impact drew the Houston Dynamo 1-1, in a game which saw Montreal’s Collen Warner get sent off in the 88th minute. With the draw, the Impact knows it will not advance out of the group stage of the preseason tournament.

Bernier scored a great free-kick goal in the 56th minute, just six minutes after Dynamo second-year player Will Bruin had opened the scoring with a headed effort.
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