Man disadvantage: TFC now up to eight dropped points when opponents see red 27 Aug 2016 TFC and its supporters can look to three matches this season where the Reds were up by a man — or men — for long periods… and didn’t win.
Dear MLS, please kill the No. 4 vs No. 5 playoff game dead 30 Oct 2014 And, if Major League Soccer cared about the integrity of its playoff system, it would do the world a favour and jettison the No. 4 vs. No. 5 conference playoff games.
Suspensions for Impact playoff meltdown have a familiar ring to them 2 Nov 2013 This isn’t the first time the Impact have been censured for the team’s behaviour in a playoff ouster. After a 2010 USSF-Div. 2 playoff loss to Carolina, in which an Impact goal was disallowed — and Montreal also claimed one of Carolina’s goals was offside — the team charged the match officials.
Impact sees red as Dynamo runs riot in Eastern Conference playoff 1 Nov 2013 He would not be the only Impact player sent off. Montreal would have only eight men left when the final whistle blew.
Montreal Impact: The pressure is off, it goes into Houston as the team with nothing to lose 28 Oct 2013 The Impact needed one of three results to go its way Sunday. But both the New England Revolution and Houston Dynamo won their matches, leaving it up to the third and final game to decide if the Impact’s season would be over or not.
Loss at Houston sees Impact slide down Eastern Conference table 5 Oct 2013 The only goal of the match was a beauty. Garcia sent a long pas in towards the Montreal goal. Chested deftly from forward Giles Barnes to Ricardo Clark, the midfielder controlled the ball with his first touch, spun and sent an arcing shot off the inside of the left upright and into the mesh behind Troy Perkins for the first goal the Dynamo has scored against the Impact this season.
Impact coach Schallibaum fined for incident that occurred when he was suspended at the time 31 Aug 2013 For the consipracy theorists out there who think that MLS has it in for Impact coach Marco Schallibaum, Friday’s news will add fuel to the fire.
Rowe’s brace earns him MLS Player of the Week award 26 Aug 2013 With so many goals in MLS this past weekend (and in the previous midweek), and many two-goal efforts from which to choose, the judges were likely swayed by the difficulty level of Rowe’s tallies.
Impact scores five times, delivers Biello his first MLS coaching victory 25 Aug 2013 “We saw fresh legs tonight, good movement and, in the end, it was a big victory for us,” Biello said after the match. “I think we played well defensively. We were very compact and were able to counter-attack several times. We saw a little of everything."
TFC gets a draw in the Houston heat; when it gets hot, the games get oh so slow 23 Jun 2013 Beating Houston in normal soccer weather would be difficult enough. But when its 30-31 C at kickoff, with humidity hovering around 80 per cent, the Dynamo’s home-field advantage is exaggerated. Sure, it gets that warm in Toronto in the summer, but BBVA Compass Stadium has a very special way of holding in the heat at field level.
