Didier Drogba scored two backheeled goals last night

Montreal keeper Evan Bush shot up his right hand to tip a Robbie Findley header over the bar in the 31st minute, just after Sebastian Gionvinco shot just wide from the edge of the penalty area.

TFC opened the scoring just prior to the half-time whistle when Giovinco delivered a pinpoint cross to an unmarked Altidore in the box, with the U.S. global making no mistake in heading the ball into the back of the Impact net. The set-up marked Giovinco’s 16th assist of the season. It also brought his tally up to 11 goals in 11 games.

For the second week in a row the Impact came out of the gate slow. The Toronto Maple Leafs and the Toronto Raptors have made the playoffs recently too, but we don’t like to talk about that much.

“It’s a one-off, so we have to show up from the first minute”. “The mindset coming out of the locker room was supposed to be continue to be aggressive, continue to push the game but we started passive and it cost us”.

N.B.: You know, the MLS Cup playoffs will be over by early December at the latest.

“Unfortunately, this has happened to us before”, Giovinco admitted.

“Because I want to win”, he said.

Giovinco agreed that, at times, he found it hard to elude the marking of Impact centre backs Ciman and Cabrera.

Montreal Impact coach Mauro Biello celebrates after his team defeated Toronto FC in the final game of the M.L.S. season for the Impact at Saputo stadium in Montreal Sunday, October 25, 2015. “Sometimes I can get around it and sometimes I can’t”.

Montreal had an 11-4 advantage in shots on target, but TFC missed a few glittering chances, including a shot off by the crossbar by Michael Bradley in the 74th minute.

It will be Toronto’s first playoff game in nine MLS seasons.

The Knockout Round is the opening round of the playoffs and is skipped by the top two teams in each conference: the Columbus Crew and the New York Red Bulls in the East. Then it is the third placed team (Montreal Impact) against the sixth place Toronto FC and DC United against the New England Revolution. “The two teams have felt each other out”.

Toronto’s dominance during the first half might have been their downfall as the second half was a completely different story.

We must admit, though, that MLS is in fact on the slow crawl towards marginal improvement, and will probably be better in the future than it is now.

After the break, though, Drogba managed to roll back the years and helped turn the 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 win, and it took no more than 120 seconds to do so.