Too little, too late. CF Montreal needed a spectacular comeback at Olympic Stadium on Wednesday night in the Champions League, but they couldn’t recreate the magic of 2015.
Posted at 10:04 p.m.
The Impact tied 1-1 (1-2 on aggregate) against Cruz Azul in Montreal in the second leg of the quarter-finals. He is thus eliminated from the competition.
Only Rudy Camacho managed to find the breach at Cruz Azul, with a header in the 79and minute. The Stadium got up, and woke up, at that moment.
But that was not enough: the Bleu-blanc-noir needed to score only three goals in the second half to hope to advance to the semis. Uriel Antuna had scored his second goal of the series for the Mexicans just before intermission, finally deceiving the vigilance of Sebastian Breza. The Montreal goalkeeper was excellent in this meeting.
The Montrealers sat for most of the second period in the Mexican box. He couldn’t really help it. On the other side, Cruz Azul demonstrated all his mastery in terms of wasting time.
As has been so often the case since the start of the CF Montreal season, it was efficiency in the final third that was lacking. We made the ball go up through the corridors. We tried centers. But either they went straight through or Kei Kamara couldn’t put his head in it.
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