There are those games that can define a season. This victory for CF Montreal against the Sounders in Seattle is one of them.
Posted at 12:03 a.m.
Updated at 12:14 a.m.
Not only did the Montreal team win 2-1 against one of the currently popular teams in MLS, on their home turf, but they also imposed themselves with style.
And thanks to Mason Toye. Does this name mean anything to you ? This efficient striker who scored seven goals in 2021 for Montreal, before being injured on August 14?
The American returned to action last Saturday at Stade Saputo. On Wednesday, he got his first start since a season-ending injury last year. He took the opportunity to score a double.
He scored in the 18e minute to tie the score at 1-1. Then did it again at the 62ewhich gave the Montrealers the lead for good.
The common thread of these two achievements? Kai Kamara.
The Sierra Leonean offered a game full of effort and involvement. It was he who created the turnaround of the Sounders in the 18e, at the center line. He grabbed the ball he had just won himself and went two against one with Toye on his left. The latter was not going to miss such an opportunity: he got back on his left foot before passing the leather skillfully in the net.
In the second period, it was Kamara’s precise pass on the left to the American in the box that allowed him to give CF Montreal the lead.
Meanwhile, Kamara was leading by example. Sometimes they were his defensive folds. Then his own scoring chances.
The 37-year-old striker’s performance was a reflection of his club. Because despite Jordan Morris’ early goal against the run of play in 3e minute, Montreal offered one of its great performances of the season. Especially in the first half. We felt it incisive, inspired, committed.
It must be said: the Sounders were playing without several of their regulars. Their two designated players João Paulo and Raúl Ruidíaz are injured. Xavier Arreaga, one of their good defenders, is too.
Still, Seattle was on a four-game unbeaten streak. And five wins in seven games.
Montreal therefore regains the lead in the Eastern standings with 29 points, the same number as the Philadelphia Union.
No, this result in the Emerald City is not nothing at all.