Toronto FC (0) – Montreal Impact (1)
TORONTO FC (0) – MONTREAL IMPACT (1) POST-MATCH SUMMARY
Scoring Summary
MTL – Jeisson Vargas 41’ (Ignacio Piatti)
Misconduct Summary
MTL – Samuel Piette 32’ (caution)
TFC – Michael Bradley 35’ (caution)
MTL – Ken Krolicki 38’ (caution)
MTL – Jeisson Vargas 53’ (caution)
MTL – Víctor Cabrera 90’ + 4’ (caution)
MTL – Marco Donadel 90’ + 6’ (caution)
Records
Toronto FC: 0-2-0 0 pts.
Montreal Impact: 1-2-0 3 pts.
Lineups
TORONTO FC – Alex Bono; Eriq Zavaleta, Drew Moor, Nick Hagglund (Marco Delgado 59’); Gregory van der Wiel, Jonathan Osorio, Michael Bradley ©, Ager Aketxe (Nicolas Hasler 59’), Ashtone Morgan (Auro JR 66’); Jozy Altidore, Sebastian Giovinco
Substitutes Not Used: Clint Irwin, Chris Mavinga, Jay Chapman, Jordan Hamilton
MONTREAL IMPACT – Evan Bush; Rod Fanni, Víctor Cabrera, Jukka Raitala, Daniel Lovitz; Samuel Piette, Michael Petrasso, Saphir Taïder, Ken Krolicki (Louis Béland-Goyette 66’), Ignacio Piatti (Anthony Jackson-Hamel 90’ + 4’); Jeisson Vargas (Marco Donadel 84’)
Substitutes Not Used: Clément Diop, Chris Duvall, Dominic Oduro, Raheem Edwards
GREG VANNEY – HEAD COACH, TORONTO FC
On Toronto’s game plan
I think for 60 minutes we were playing possession for the sake of playing possession. We weren’t really trying to get behind their backline or into dangerous areas. It was just a lot of passes in front of their backline. At the end of the day, if you play against a team that plays on the counter, and you just pass the ball in front of them all the time, eventually you’re going to lose it, and you set yourself up for one of those moments, which is what they got in the first half.
On the Champions League
You travel more, and you have less time to prepare for the game. Usually, you set up your game plan for a couple of days coming into a game and we just don’t have that luxury. On the flipside, we’ve now played five professional games, and they’ve played a few less, so I do think it does have something to do with it. Sometimes, a game plan you use against one team may not work against another.
MICHAEL BRADLEY – MIDFIELDER, TORONTO FC
On what Toronto could’ve done
We weren’t dangerous enough in the first half. Coach made that point at half time. We could’ve been a little more probing, threaten their back line a little more, attack in the space, those parts weren’t good enough in the first half. And against a team that’s built in many ways to sit and absorb and counter, we played into their hands a little bit.
On Toronto’s busy schedule
It’s not ideal to look at the table right now and see that we only play in thirteen days again. On one hand you want to turn around and play right away, and on the other, it’s been a busy start, and we need to use the time over this little stretch to regroup, mentally and physically, and get ready for what we hope will be a very busy April.
DREW MOOR – DEFENDER, TORONTO FC
On what Toronto could have done
They decided to sit deep and try to hit us on the transition. Obviously, we’re disappointed in the result. I just don’t think we were sharp enough on the day, we weren’t good enough breaking them down, and we didn’t defend the transition as well as we would’ve liked to. I think on another day if we were a bit sharper, it would’ve been a different result.
On Montreal’s game plan
They sat deep and allowed us to pass the ball in front of them. They were difficult to break down, I give them credit for that. Maybe we were a little impatient at times and tried to rush it. At times we gave it away cheaply, and the few real opportunities we had, we couldn’t put them away.
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