Miami 0-1 Montreal http://www.montrealimpact.com/Tracker/Tracker.aspx?GameID=42&language=EN Another scoreless game for Miami.
http://www.miamifc.com/news/148 (edited) Miami FC, playing one man down for the entire second half, loses to Montreal Impact 1-0 - 05/05/2007 Miami, May 5, 2007 – After 270 minutes without a goal, a game between Miami FC and Montreal Impact did not end scoreless this time. Last year, the Impact and the Miami FC tied 0-0 twice, on April 23 in Florida and on May 28, in Montreal. On April 3, Miami and the Montreal tied once again 0-0 in a pre-season match-up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. However, tonight Montreal won 1-0. The game was very tepid, with no major plays, when at minute 43, Montreal Impact saw the Miami FC go a man down; Miami FC´s midfielder John Pulido was sent off after tackling Montreal Impact´s number 9, Fabro Martin. With one man down, Head Coach Chiquinho de Assis decided to make changes with the Miami FC lineup at half time. Number 15, Sergio Van Kanten went in for Luchi Gonzalez and Ignacio “Nacho” Calcagno replaced Sean Fraser. Montreal Impact, taking advantage of having one more man on the field, started the second half on the attack, but Miami FC´s goalie, Pat Hannigan, was in an inspired mood and had a couple of great saves. At minute 68, number 12 Charles Gbeke ran to the far right post to finish a cross by number 11 Frederico Moojen and scored the first goal after 338 minutes without the ball hitting the net for none of the teams. ---------------------------------------------- The red card on Pulido changed the match in my view. Tepid is a good word. Still, it felt like this was anyone's game in the 1st. I think most of the crowd were oblivious to the red. I missed the foul while looking at my roster. That straight red card appeared only for a second. The PA announcer never mentioned the red on Pulido nor the yellow card following (on Williams). I'm sure some of the Miami fans never even knew they were a man down. At the half Miami pulled both forwards (Luchi & Fraser), in favor of a midfielder (Kanten) & another forward (Nacho). They continued to play a diamond 4-4-2 with only one forward (they didn't really hold this shape well, but that's what it appeared to be). They spent the beginning of the 2nd holding off attacks from Montreal. The game got increasingly better as the half wore on. I got the feeling Miami could have pulled a goal out had they played 5 just more minutes. I only got a couple decent pictures , but I did get a bit of video which I'll edit an put on YouTube (link to come...............).
I went to the game as well and everything previously mentioned was right on. The only thing I can say in defense of the lack of fan support was cinco de mayo and the fight over in vegas. Yeah right, this is Miami, fans only jump on the bandwagon when a team is successful, like the Heat. Hopefully the team can get some victories and maybe some people will be out to support them, we can only hope.