CF Montreal | The art of taking time

CF Montreal defender Rudy Camacho was torn between two philosophies Tuesday morning when he spoke with the media: letting things fall into place and the urgency of winning.

“We have to give young people time to adapt. But time, we don’t have any. We have to win this weekend,” he concluded.

After two losses in as many games, there is a certain eagerness to get the first point of the season or simply the first goal. It possibly honored one of the passages in Come as You Are from Nirvana, where Kurt Cobain is torn between two concepts: taking his time and taking things as they go.

“We don’t have time… We don’t have time. All the players on the team have to give everything to win the match because we are still losing. Especially since last year we used to win, so it’s still difficult to lose, ”notes Camacho.

The more the press scrum progresses, the more we begin to discern the nuances between the duality of the Frenchman’s ideas. The fiber of the big brother wanting to protect the young players, who must immediately play a leading role and on whom a good part of the success depends, but who knows that the team must quickly collect points in order to avoid falling too far behind its competitors.

The question of the necessary adaptation time was therefore posed to Sean Rea, who was also parachuted into an important role. After two seasons on loan in the Canadian Premier League, the 20-year-old Laval resident was first a substitute against Inter Miami and then started in the match against Austin FC on Saturday.

According to Rea, he and his attacking partners are still tuning up at the start of the season.

If there is a player with whom Rea must develop affinity on the field it is with Romell Quioto, the only indisputable holder in the offensive section.

“Romell is a good guy,” Rea said. He comes to talk to the young people and he says: “There, I’m going to be at the second post, you’re watching me”. He always tells us where he’s going to be to find him. It’s the guys, so we try to find it as much as possible. »

The chrono, the enemy and the friend of the CFM

“The more that I’m going to play with Romell, the better it will be,” Rea said. more than the game [contre Austin] advanced, the more we were on the ground to make small combinations. The more we play together, the more we will understand each other. »

But Rea seemed to be alone in his camp to like the progress of the match. The other members of the Montreal eleven would have liked the last duel to end more quickly.

“There was a lot of fatigue towards the end. Several players had cramps. It was a bit of a ping-pong match. […] At the end, we were burnt out,” Camacho said.

The head coach of the Montrealers, Hernán Losada, did not hide it, all his substitutions were justified by a lack of energy from the outgoing player. He also said that three players suffered from cramps, namely Samuel Piette, Aaron Herrera and Quioto.

The team eventually succumbed to the 88^e minute and repeated attacks from Austin allowed the locals to take the three points.

The good news is that Quioto and Herrera were present during Tuesday’s training. The worst is that Piette was not with the group at the Olympic Stadium, but rather at the Center Nutrilait to get treatment.

Waterman back in training

Canadian defender Joel Waterman took part in his first full training since his injury suffered a few days before the start of the season. The man who started 30 of CFM’s 34 games last year was sidelined in the first two games with a “minor” injury. He should therefore find his place in the central hinge alongside Rudy Camacho and Kamal Miller for Saturday’s game against Nashville SC.