CF Montreal lose 2-0 to Orlando City SC and are eliminated

On this first day of return to Eastern Standard Time, the sun set early on the Saputo stadium on Sunday. He also slept on CF Montreal’s MLS season, too early for Wilfried Nancy and his players to like.

CF Montreal were excluded from a playoff appearance in the Eastern Conference following a 2-0 loss to Orlando City SC.

In front of without a doubt the best crowd of the season in Montreal – the organization did not reveal the attendance figure – the Montreal team played with vigor in this game that they absolutely had to win to extend their season in MLS .

Despite this public support, the CF bowed down after two goals from the opposing team. Sebastian Mendez scored in the 55^e minute – his first goal of the season -, and Daryl Dike in the 86^e minute against Sebastian Breza. This second goal was scored when CF Montreal had to make do with 10 players, following a red card awarded to Rudy Camacho on Dike, in the 79^e minute.

Less than five minutes after the visitors’ first net, Romell Quioto believed he had created the tie by exploiting a quality cross from Camacho. The sideline official, however, ruled that Quioto was offside. Although it is tight, we did not call on the video assistance at the refereeing to revise the sequence, leaving the Montreal team with a setback of one goal.

During his videoconference after the match, Nancy returned to this sequence and he did not mince words about the person in charge of video assistance at the refereeing. “It’s not even the referee that’s at fault, it’s the person who was responsible for the VAR. Whether the referee is wrong during the match, there are emotions, positive, negative, there is stress, there is everything you need. But that the person from the VAR is wrong when that person is sitting watching a match and that there is, I want to say, one meter apart, it is scandalous ”, he said.

CF Montreal (12-12-10) therefore completes the season with 46 points, at 10^e rank in the Eastern Association. The clubs in the top seven positions qualified for the playoffs.

“I would have liked it to have ended differently because the players deserved to make the [séries éliminatoires] Nancy admitted, over a response that sounded a bit like a mini-assessment.

CF Montreal will try to console themselves by winning the final of the Canadian Championship against Toronto FC. The date and place of this meeting are not yet known.

Exciting game

Friday by videoconference, assistant coach Laurent Ciman noted that the first goal would be of paramount importance.

Players from both teams were no doubt aware of this, as they stepped up their attempts, giving spectators an exciting first half.

During these first 45 minutes of play, the two clubs combined their efforts to attempt 13 shots at opposing goalkeepers – 6 by CF Montreal – including several threatening.

But we grow up. I would have liked to grow up differently tonight, but we are growing.

The first came from the foot of Mauricio Pereyra, at the 10^e minute, on a free kick that Breza brilliantly repelled by diving to his left.

About six minutes later, CF Montreal missed a golden chance when Sunusi Ibrahim, in front of an almost wide open net, deflected the ball a little too much towards the center of the goal and into the hands of Pedro Gallese.

Joaquin Torres was also frustrated with Gallese in the 21st minute while Breza was saved by his post following a shot from Robin Jansson.

The first goal finally came when Mendez fired a precise shot, from a distance of around 20 yards, that beat Breza in the upper right portion of the net.

While the Montreal team needed two goals, their hopes for a comeback took a heavy blow when Camacho received a red card for a tackle against Dike in the central zone. The latter then planted the last nail in the coffin of CF Montreal.

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