2023-07-11 13:31:31
(Montreal) CF Montreal is not in a position to take weeks lightly. Especially not the one that comes.
Posted at 9:31 a.m.
Simon Serving The Canadian Press
After dropping valuable points at home against New York City FC and Atlanta United, the Bleu-blanc-noir heads to Chicago to face the Fire on Wednesday night.
By taking a look at the Eastern Conference standings, Montrealers can see that the Fire have the same number of points as them with the same number of games. This is therefore not the time for the troop of Hernan Losada to lend a hand to direct opponents.
Although it’s an interesting week for the Eastern standings, as CF Montreal (8-11-2) will also face Charlotte FC, Losada refuses to put pressure on his players because the standings are still very far from being played.
“Even if you win, you don’t really close the door on the standings. There are still a lot of points to go until the end and the classification is very tight. Every game and every point is important,” said the head coach.
If CF Montreal is doing less well these days, after being shut out three times in a row, the Fire (6-7-8) is looking up. The Chicago outfit have won three of their last four outings.
However, the Fire have lost their last four meetings against the Montrealers and we bet that the Chicago team’s interim head coach, Frank Klopas, will want to end this drought against his former team.
It will also be a reunion night for forward Kei Kamara, who was involved in a contract dispute with CF Montreal before the start of the season, after having rendered very proud services to the Bleu-blanc-noir in 2022.
Kamara has hit the target five times this season, which would put him at the top of CF Montreal’s top scorers. The Sierra Leonean veteran, who will play in the MLS All-Star Game, also scored 13 career goals against the Montrealers, including the playoffs, which is his best tally against a single opponent, tied with the Fire.
Once again, Losada wanted to calm things down with the striker he was around during training camp, but his former teammates are eager to face him.
“Obviously the players know him well. We’ll see if Kei starts the game or us, but it’s not the first time we’ve played against a former CF Montreal player,” Losada said. The important thing is to prepare the match against the Fire and not against Kei. »
“Kei has been an amazing teammate. It was good to have him here. The Fire saw that he was a great player and he still proves that age is just double digits. We know it won’t be easy in Chicago and he’s not going to make it easy,” Toye added.
We already know that defender Rudy Camacho will not be in the training, he who received a one-game suspension due to an accumulation of yellow cards.
Victim of a sports hernia a few weeks ago, Lassi Lappalainen will also be missing. The case of Mathieu Choinière (ankle) is reassessed daily and he could be in uniform on Wednesday.
Used in four Gold Cup games with Guatemala, Aaron Herrera will join the team in Chicago. His playing time could be limited unlike that of Zachary Brault-Guillard, who played only one game with Canada during this tournament.
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