MLS Impact de Montréal

[MtlMan]

Can't wait to see that ... ok je vais aller jouer dehors

 

[ATTACH]21049[/ATTACH]

 

Tu te prends pour Yara?

[IluvMTL]

Impact 'keeper Bush suspended for Champions League game at Big O

 

HERB ZURKOWSKY, MONTREAL GAZETTE

More from Herb Zurkowsky, Montreal Gazette

Published on: April 27, 2015

 

The Impact announced on Monday that the suspension to goalkeeper Evan Bush for the second game of the CONCACAF Champions League final against Mexico’s Club America will not be overturned.

 

The Impact tied the first game in the two-game, total-goals series 1-1 last week in Mexico City with the second game slated for Wednesday at 8 p.m. at Olympic Stadium.

 

Bush received a yellow card in the 89th minute of the first game of the final in Mexico. It was the second yellow card of the tournament for Bush after he received another yellow in the first game of the semifinal series, calling for an automatic one-game suspension.

 

The Impact appealed the suspension to CONCACAF, but it was rejected.

 

sent via Tapatalk

[Feanaro]

L'art et la manière de se trouver des excuses!

 

 

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

[MtlMan]

Connerie de direction de la Concacaf. Con-ca-caves?

[Ornello Mastrocola]

City of Montreal and MLS are behind Montreal Impact's historic game tonight. Let's hope we can pull through. It'll be a monumental task with a 3rd string GK and Cabrera and Camara injured. Reo-Coker might be asked to defend the right side...we'll see what Klopas has in store. Allez Imapct!!!!!!!!!

[Feanaro]

 

The Club That Could Bring MLS International Respect Is…Montreal?

 

It may not be the team that Major League Soccer had in mind to take it to the next level internationally, but the Montreal Impact can make history on Wednesday.

 

The three-year-old club—currently in last in MLS—has a glorious chance to win the Champions League final against Club América, a regional giant from Mexico. After tying the first leg of the final 1-1 at Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium last week, the Impact have brought a precious road goal into Wednesday’s second half of the home-and-home at Olympic Stadium. A scoreless draw (or of course a victory) would be enough for Montreal to prevail and bring new respect to MLS.

 

The Champions League has become something of a holy grail for MLS. The league has a stated ambition to be one of the world’s 10 best by 2022, but it has consistently hit a wall at this regional competition of club teams, where Mexican sides from Liga MX have held sway.

 

In previous years, the likes of LA Galaxy and the Seattle Sounders have progressed deep into the competition only to suffer painful eliminations at the quarterfinal or semifinal stages. Since the competition expanded to a 24-team format in 2008-09 (after previously being a smaller knockout competition), no MLS team has won. The closest anyone came was in 2011, when Real Salt Lake lost 1-0 at home in after earning a 2-2 draw against Mexican side Monterrey in that year’s final.

 

Montreal is arguably an even more unlikely candidate to break the MLS streak than Real Salt Lake was. The team earned its berth in the Champions League as 2014 Canadian champions—and even in that small, five-team field, it needed an injury-time penalty to get past Edmonton, a member of the second-tier North American Soccer League, in the semifinals.

 

It started a trend for drama in this competition by the Impact, which needed a last-minute goal to beat Mexican side Pachuca in the Champions League quarterfinals. In the semifinals, Montreal progressed by the thinnest of margins, holding on grimly after an injury-time goal from Costa Rican team Alajuelense.

 

Yet Montreal’s progress has been no fluke. After qualifying from a group stage that included the New York Red Bulls, a fellow MLS side, the Impact set aside a poor performance in the MLS regular season in 2014 to concentrate on preparations for the Champions league knockout rounds that coincided with the start of the 2015 season.

 

Traditionally, this has been the stumbling block for MLS sides in the Champions League: They are still in preseason form, while Mexican teams are already 10 games into their season. But the Impact left nothing to chance. The team prepared in Mexico with expensive altitude training and effectively wrote off the start off the MLS season—they have a league-low two points—in an all-or-nothing run for glory. Winning the Champions League means entry to the FIFA Club World Cup later in the year, and the prospect of competition and exposure with elite global teams.

 

Yet despite its best preparations, suspensions, retirements and injuries have robbed the Impact of key players throughout the competition. And on Monday night the team was forced to acquire veteran goalkeeper Kristian Nicht after suspension ruled out first-choice keeper Evan Bush from the second leg.

 

Assuming Nicht plays, he will be in for a busy night. Club América is an attacking side that laid siege to the Montreal goal in the first game and likely will do so again Wednesday. But the Impact will feel it can score on the counter and pull off an unlikely victory. Stranger things have happened—many of them to Montreal on this most unlikely of runs.

 

 

Montréal se tape le Wall Street Journal : http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2015/04/28/montreal-impact/

 

Quoiqu'il arrive ce soir, Montréal sera mieux connu après cette finale!

[nephersir7]

Quoiqu'il arrive ce soir, Montréal sera mieux connu après cette finale!

 

Même l'ilot voyageur a eu sa part de publicité!

 

[ChrisDVD]

MLS Twitter "en francais" for Montreal Impact's CONCACAF Champions League finale.

 

http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2015/04/27/mls-twitter-en-francais-montreal-impacts-concacaf-champions-league-finale?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=News&utm_campaign=Unpaid

 

 

:goodvibes:

[Feanaro]

Quel match hier et quelle ambiance! Oui l'Impact a encore beaucoup de chemin à parcourir et un niveau à améliorer mais je pense que nous pouvons être fiers!

[Matt]

Quelques photos d hier...oui une super ambiance!