Orlando City SC vs. Montreal Impact
Camping World Stadium | Orlando, Florida
Sunday, Oct. 2 | Week #30 | MLS Game #313
1 pm ET (ESPN in the US, TVA Sports in Canada)
A critical contest in the Eastern Conference playoff picture is up when Orlando City SC entertain the Montréal Impact on Sunday afternoon at Camping World Stadium before an ESPN audience. Orlando City come into the game in almost certain must-win mode if they are to keep their playoff hopes alive, their winless run now at four games following a goalless draw at Toronto FC at midweek. Should the Lions lose to the Impact, they will officially be eliminated from playoff contention. Montreal gave their playoff dreams a major boost on Wednesday, knocking off the San Jose Earthquakes 3-1 at Stade Saputo, also at midweek, in snapping a four-game winless run.
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- The teams are meeting for the third time this season, Orlando City winning the first two, once at each ground. Cyle Larin scored a goal late in each half as City overcame an early Ignacio Piatti strike for a 2-1 win May 21 at Camping World Stadium; on Sept. 7 at Stade Saputo, Kaká netted two goals and Carlos Rivas scored a goal and added two assists in a 4-1 win.
- The teams met three times in Orlando City SC’s inaugural season, evenly splitting the season series. Each team won once at home, the Impact taking a 2-0 victory June 20 at Stade Saputo, and Orlando City responding with a 2-1 win in Orlando. The teams reached a 2-2 draw in their first meeting, March 14 at Olympic Stadium.
REFEREE: Armando Villarreal. AR1 (bench): Jason White; AR2 (opposite): Chris Strickland; 4th: Rubiel Vasquez
MLS Career: 74 games; FC/gm: 22.5; Y/gm: 2.9; R: 19; pens: 20
SUSPENDED: ORL: Brek Shea (caution accumulation; through Oct. 2) … MTL: Victor Cabrera (caution accumulation; through Oct. 2); Hassoun Camara (through Oct. 2)
WARNINGS:
SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: MTL: Hassoun Camara, Didier Drogba, Lucas Ontivero
SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: ORL: Servando Carrasco, Seb Hines, Jose Aja, Cristian Higuita … MTL: Patrice Bernier, Marco Donadel
DISABLED LIST: none
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none
HEAD-TO-HEAD
ALL-TIME (5 meetings): Orlando City 3 wins, 10 goals … Impact 1 win, 7 goals … Ties 1
AT ORLANDO (2 meetings): Orlando City 2 wins, 4 goals … Impact 0 wins, 2 goals … Ties 0
2016 (MLS)
5/21: ORL 2, MTL 1 (Larin 43, 87 – Piatti 4)
7/7: MTL 1, ORL 4 (Drogba 2 – Shea 4; Kaka 36, 54; Rivas 77)
- The teams are meeting for the third time this season, Orlando City winning the first two, once at each ground. Cyle Larin scored a goal late in each half as City overcame an early Ignacio Piatti strike for a 2-1 win May 21 at Camping World Stadium; on Sept. 7 at Stade Saputo, Kaká netted two goals and Carlos Rivas scored a goal and added two assists in a 4-1 win.
- The teams met three times in Orlando City SC’s inaugural season, evenly splitting the season series. Each team won once at home, the Impact taking a 2-0 victory June 20 at Stade Saputo, and Orlando City responding with a 2-1 win in Orlando. The teams reached a 2-2 draw in their first meeting, March 14 at Olympic Stadium.
- Coaches record: Mauro Biello vs. ORL: P3 W0 L3 T0 … Jason Kreis vs. MTL: P6 W4 L2 T0
LAST MEETING (MLS)
- The Impact wasted no time to get on the score sheet. Seconds into the encounter, Calum Mallace won the ball by the centre circle and shifted it to Kyle Bekker, who released Nacho Piatti down the left. But José Aja fouled the Argentinean, and on the ensuing free kick,
- The Impact took the lead after just the second minute. Ignacio Piatti was fouled just outside the left edge of the area, and from ensuing free kick, Didier Drogba blasted a swerving shot that Orlando City goalkeeper Joe Bendik only could deflect into his own net.
- OCSC replied two minutes later, as Brek Shea tapped home into a wide-open goal after Carlos Rivas tipped a Matias Pérez Garcia pass from the right. Orlando then took the lead in the 36th minute after the ball was lost deep into the Montreal half, and again Pérez Garcia and Rivas combined to move the ball over to the left of the area, where Kaká stroked it home.
- The lead was 3-1 when Kaká converted a penalty kick after Impact goalkeeper Evan Bush was sent off City's Rivas after he was through alone on goal. The Impact won a penalty of their own in the 69th minute when David Mateos clipped Matteo Mancosu in the box, but Orlando goalkeeper Joe Bendik dove to his right to stop Drogba’s spot kick.
- The scoreline was complete on 77 minutes in when Rivas was released down the left by Júlio Baptista and put a left-footed shot into the opposite side netting.
- MONTREAL IMPACT (4-2-3-1): Evan Bush (ejected 51) - Donny Toia, Hassoun Camara, Laurent Ciman, Amadou Dia - Calum Mallace (Patrice Bernier 46), Hernan Bernardello - Dominic Oduro (Matteo Mancosu 67), Kyle Bekker, Ignacio Piatti - Didier Drogba.
- ORLANDO CITY SC (4-2-3-1): Joseph Bendik - Kevin Alston, Jose Aja, David Mateos (Seb Hines 80), Luke Boden - Servando Carrasco, Antonio Nocerino - Matias Perez Garcia, Kaka (Tony Rocha 65), Brek Shea (Julio Baptista 61) - Carlos Rivas.
