Impact hold on for 3-2 playoff win over TFC

Michael Bradley discusses his role in Toronto’s fightback against Montreal as his side netted two goals in the second half.

MONTREAL-A sold out Olympic Stadium crowd of 61,004 witnessed arguably the most important soccer match in Canadian history as the Montreal Impact hung on for a riveting 3-2 win over Toronto FC on Tues., Nov. 22. “We’ve fallen behind. For me, it’s U.S., Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama are four good teams (in CONCACAF)”.

The two teams have faced each other three times this season, but there are no clear indications as to who is the better team as both sides took away one victory and tied their last meeting in October.

L’Impact went into the break with a two-goal lead and hoping for a third to all-but kill the match.

So regularly, in fact, that he’s also been trying to make converts of his teammates along the way. The Impact have answered every challenge in these playoffs.

“I took that as maybe we don’t have enough men, seasoned men in this team”, Vanney said later.

It will be the teams’ sixth meeting this year.

Adrian Healey and Taylor Twellman recap Montreal’s playoff win, but say they have their work cut out for them to advance.

How else do you explain the tiny percentage of Canadian players that participated in the first leg of Tuesday night’s all-Canadian Eastern Conference final?

And how the two sides deal with the noise, the hard and bouncy artificial turf and the pressure-packed situation should have much to do with which team gains the advantage heading into the second leg of the two-game-aggregate goals series on November 30 at BMO field in Toronto. “He was just so dominant, it was fun to see him live from up close”. Even if you just take the TSN figure, however, it would have bumped the game up to eighth on the weekend of the New York City tie – behind two National Hockey League games, three World Series games, an NFL Sunday double-header and a CFL matchup.

The 401 Derby between Montreal and Toronto will now be played out in the Eastern Conference Final. I am thinking of those young people who are going to watch this game (from Tuesday) and the one in Toronto.

Didier Drogba, the 38-year-old Ivory Coast forward who starred at Chelsea, entered in the 71st minute to cheers but was thwarted twice in the dying minutes.

But at the same time.

Instantly, a Montreal blowout was flipped to a decent result for Toronto. “I won’t be able to check the score during our game against Ottawa, but I’ll find out what happened right after”.