In a back-and-forth match that saw Matteo Ferrari play both the goat and the hero, the Montreal Impact were able to dig a little deeper and scored twice in the final ten minutes to secure the 3-2 win against RSL.
After deflecting a Lovel Palmer strike up and over goalkeeper Troy Perkins into the back of the net in just the 7th minute of the match, Ferrari found himself with one last chance to put his earlier blunder behind him.
HARRISON, NJ Just days after the Major League Soccer salaries were released, Thierry Henry showed exactly why he is the highest paid player in the league.
Henry scored twice, the second goal coming off an audacious 88th minute bicycle kick, leading the New York Red Bulls to a 2-1 victory over the Montreal Impact on Wednesday night at Red Bull Arena.
The Major League Soccer Players Union released on Monday their first list of player and team salaries in 2013, and it's not a huge surprise who is at the top of the list.
Thierry Henry of the New York Red Bulls remains the top earner in the league, bringing in a total of $4.
Unfortunately for everyone involved, Mikael Silvestre's debut season in Major League Soccer is all but over.
The Timbers announced that Silvestre had suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his left knee, ruling him out for the next six to nine months.
Any hope for Jeff Larentowicz and Brad Davis to see the field in the next game was dashed Wednesday afternoon.
Both midfielders appealed red card they received for transgressions on the weekend. Unable to get a unanimous vote from an independent referee panel, both red cards were upheld and both Larentowicz and Davis will be made to serve their one-game suspensions.
Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber was in Columbus on Thursday to announce the next host of the MLS Business Summit.
At a press conference held at Crew Stadium, Garber and Columbus Crew President and G.M. Marc McCullers jointly announced that Ohio's capital city would be hosting this year's business summit from September 10-12.
Holy buckets. If that video doesn't make you a semi-Impact fan then I don't know what will. Such quality in the production and making of this video. Big kudos to the Impact for posting it today.
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It's hardly a secret that the AFR team has a growing affection for the ever-evolving football culture emerging in Montréal. It is hard to believe that we were up in Quebec only about a month ago, when we captured the gorgeous Stade Saputo covered in snow ahead of the stadium's opener.
The Montreal Impact delivered a complete performance on Saturday and remain unbeaten at home after a 2-0 victory over the Chicago Fire at Stade Saputo.
Second-half goals from Andres Romero and Marco Di Vaio, as well as a controversial red card for the Fire, temporarily vaulted the Impact back atop the Eastern Conference standings with a 5-1-1 record.
Toronto FC may be struggling to win games in Major League Soccer, but on Wednesday night they continued their winning ways in the Canadian Championships, earning a victory with a lineup made up mostly of reserve players.
TFC defeated the Montreal Impact, 2-0, on Wednesday night, with Doniel Henry and Andrew Wiedeman providing the second-half strikes to give the defending Canadian champions the first-leg victory in their semifinal series.
Porterball is starting to show its way in MLS. (Jaime Valdez-USA TODAY Sports)
It seems as though with each passing season in Major League Soccer we get a new crop of coaches in the league. Last year we got a couple new coaches and this season was no different with five new managers roaming the sidelines.
The match was as cold as the pitch beneath the 22 players running on it. That was until a four-minute second half stretch when both Marco Di Vaio and Dominic Oduro scored spectacular goals for their clubs.
The result was that the Montreal Impact drew with the Columbus Crew 1-1 on Sunday afternoon at Stade Saputo, with the match being played 24 hours after it's originally scheduled time due to snowfall in Montreal.
It may still be early in the MLS campaign, and as such clubs' records must be taken with a grain of salt. But there's no denying the Los Angeles Galaxy and FC Dallas have already established themselves as teams to beat.
On Saturday, the two sides' meeting should provide a little more clarity to the tight Western Conference table.
You know it's a bad injury when the opposing player is calling for help.
Houston Dynamo forward Giles Barnes was involved in an innocuous challenge in the box with Portland Timbers' defender David Horst that saw the latter fall to the ground in agony, clutching his right knee in the 15th minute of Saturday's 2-0 win.
"Minda telling me when you guys are going to cool off?"
Steve Fenn sets the MLS table.
The first month of 2013 MLS has just finished, but many are alreadytrumpeting clubs' achievements or bemoaning the lack thereof. Chivas USA and Montreal Impact gear is flying off the shelves apparently (that's not true, but you get the drift.
We traveled to the Montréal Impact's Stade Saputo at the end of March, and caught it in a Wintry state before the stadium's season opener. Make sure to watch this in high definition. The place is nothing short of beautiful.
Filmed by Jordan Beard Edited by Eric Beard Thanks to Matthieu Labaudinière and Yvan Delia-Lavictoire Music: "Nike, Goddess of Victory" by Cry Guy
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Thierry Henry is The King! He's a magician and the best player that our League has ever had (sorry Becks). What else can be said? His two goals were enough to win this game and the second of those two goals was certainly worth the price of an RBNY season ticket. The great Dan Dickinson has a fantastic match report, with the Good & the Bad and some great quotes from the players after the game.
Credit: USA Today Sports The Games I hope you're fired up for this week's MLS Weekly, because these guys were!
Columbus Crew 0-1 New York Red Bulls
The New York Red Bulls claimed top spot in the Eastern Conference with a narrow away victory over the Columbus Crew, thanks in large part to a standout performance from goalkeeper Luis Robles.
In a single month Diego Valeri has gone from being the best player on our weekly play ratings threads to becoming one of our worst. It's interesting because, Valeri is very clearly skilled as a player in a creative element, but since his jaw-dropping debut against New York he has been moved around.
Post game video thoughts/rants about one of the most disappointing nights to have ever been a Toronto FC supporter as the Reds crash out of the 2013 Voyageurs Cup to...
Goodbye old friend MONTREAL VS. TORONTO VOYAGEURS CUP SEMI-FINAL 2nd LEGSTADE SAPUTOFIRST HALF: KICK OFF - In Toronto there is no sporting event bigger than this Amway Canadian Championship Semi-Final tonight.
It's the cheesiest!!! MONTREAL (0) VS. TORONTO (2)VOYAGEURS CUP SEMI-FINAL 2ND LEG STADE SAPUTO - WEDNESDAY 7:30PM TV: SPORTSNET ONE
THE KICKABOUT: The only real story to look out for in this 2nd Leg matchup is whether or not Montreal manager Marco Schallibaum sticks to his guns and continues to undervalue The Voyageurs Cup.
Before addressing the article that Toronto Star columnist/hack Cathal Kelly wrote about the Voyageurs Cup I want to first apologize for not posting my customary video blog post game after...
New scarves from the Yorkies Collection... ok, they're not, but I wish they were. I had a whole "prediction" bit, but since most of those could not occur, including one where Bitchy takes off again, but gets caught in the north end goal netting, this had to be removed. Pity, really.
OTF Editor Scott Fenwick brings you the Fire week in review, player and coach interviews, and gets you match prepped for Chicago's trip to Canada's sin city...
Perhaps this week's trip to La Metropole will show us whether the Fire have indeed turned a corner.
There's riveting. There's quotidian. There's mind-numbing. And then, a little past Pluto. (image: wikimedia commons)
This weekend, Chicago Fire travels north to The Wall for a closeencounter with the Others known as the Montreal Impact. OTF's Ricardo Ortiz prepares you for the trauma to come.
Another game, another stoppage-time equalizer for San Jose.
Despite a brace from MLS veteran Justin Mapp, the Montreal Impact were unable to hold on as the San Jose Earthquakes roared back to earn another tie thanks to some late-game heroics from reigning MLS Supporters Shield winners.
I am not in the mood for much writing tonight. I can say that I watched the tv broadcast from beginning to end. Sometimes being a fan means suffering. It is hard to find anything other than negatives in tonight's disaster of a performance.
OTF's Stephen Mangat brings you the intel on le foot La Métropole du Québec...
Canadians...a polite, hockey-loving folk who seem to be the perfect neighbors. But take a look beneath the Canadian surface (which requires digging through snow and ice) and you'll see the Great White North is a powder-keg of madness that could explode at any minute!
