What/When Toronto FC (18-8-3) will return home to BMO Field to take on the Montréal Impact (10-6-12) on Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 7:30 pm EDT. TV/Video This match will be shown live on TSN (http://www.tsn.ca/, English) and TVA Sports (http://www.tvasports.ca/, French) in Canada, MLS Direct Kick and MLS Live (http://live.mlssoccer.com/, U.S. only). Radio/Audio CHUM AM 1050 (http://www.tsn.ca/radio/toronto-1050, English) in Toronto; CJAD AM 800 (http:///www.cjad.com/, English) and CHMP FM 98.5 (http://www.985fm.ca/, French) in Montréal.
Hopefully TFC will put the boots to Montreal. As always, though, in a game against the Impact the rivalry can produce unexpected results. As an aside item, a win by TFC (or a loss or tie by Vancouver) would see TFC clinch the spot as top Canadian team in MLS for 2017 and thereby an easier path in the 2018 Canadian Championship.
Two home games vs montreal means that we get to play keepaway with montreal's playoff chances. And to be honest, they are not a team that I would like to face in the playoffs because no matter how bad they are, they always seem to turn it on when it matters.
http://www.tsn.ca/altidore-out-vs-impact-giovinco-questionable-1.860661 TSN reporting no Altidore and possibly no Giovinco or Vazquez.
Altidore was confirmed out yesterday....heard on the radio this morning that Giovinco also confirmed out for tonight (and unlikely for the weekend away to New England).
I really hope the Armando Cooper experiment is over soon. We should never play Osorio and Cooper at the same time. They both hold on to the ball far too long. TFC gets most of their goals from moving the ball around quickly.
Takes a lot for me to leave a match early.....but 5-1 down at 75th minute mark on a school night will do it every time. Final score 5-3 loss.
As bad as this feels right now, I think that a loss like this happening late in the season will be a good thing for TFC in the long term. I'm of the opinion that losses like this make good teams stronger. I've seen a lot of sports teams that dominate in the regular season but then lose in the playoffs because they've never had to make adjustments and bounce back and so the first time they face a higher level of competition they aren't prepared for it.. The teams that TFC will play in the playoffs aren't going to be like LA or San Jose. They're not going to give up on the game and just let TFC cruise through to the MLS Cup.
^ There is merit to what you say, and we all knew they weren't going to win every game, but they didn't have to have their crash at home against Montreal.