CF Montreal suffered a 2-1 loss to Atlanta United FC in a preseason match played Wednesday at Al Lang Stadium in St. Petersburg, Florida.
In this duel made up of four 30-minute periods, Dominik Yankov scored the Montreal team’s goal in the 101ste minute.
Atlanta United took a 1-0 lead on an own goal from goalkeeper Sebastian Breza in the 34the minute. Another error by the Montreal goalkeeper, this one committed by Jonathan Sirois, led to the eventual victorious net by Tyler Wolff in the 65the minute.
“We have a championship which is coming quickly, we have preparation which is what it is. Don, we try the concepts we want but we want to build athletic preparation,” said head coach Laurent Courtois.
“We have to accumulate workloads that allow us to be competitive during the season. So the objective, it was athletic, the objective, it was to give playing time to the entire lineup so that, we hope, everyone has good indications on the expected behaviors and the experimentation of the some concepts that we tried to put in place,” added the new head coach of CF Montreal.
CF Montreal will play its next match on February 10 against the Colorado Rapids in Kissimmee.