By Ambrosia Tonkovich // @heyambrosia
Saturday, August 19: 3-1 Loss
First of all, I don’t mean to be rude, but Montreal Impact is always a team I forget exists. It’s not that they’re that horrible or anything, it’s just that they’re not like a big name team, they don’t make headlines a whole lot, and so they just don’t make their way to the top of my mind. Anytime I see we’re playing them I say ‘oh, right. They are a team’. Well, hell. Guess I’ll remember them this time. Real Salt Lake went on the road to lose 3-1 in Toronto after an unbeaten streak (which we desperately needed) in Canada on Saturday night.
We had six games unbeaten before tonight, and we tried in the beginning (with Luis Silva scoring in the 26th minute) but sadly we weren’t able to bring it back.
Luis gets his 3rd of the year in Montreal! pic.twitter.com/Eb2WwZmnu2
— Real Salt Lake (@RealSaltLake) August 20, 2017
In the sixth minute we did see an early injury. Marcelo Silva was subbed out with a hamstring injury and David Horst came in to take his place. Our luck went down from there, with an early score from Ignacio Piatti in the 10th minute that put Montreal up 1-0.
Like I said, we did score in the 26th minute, but that was the only goal we could seem to score, even though we did have 6 shots on goal to their 4, (apparently they made those count). We did collect a nice selection of yellow cards, as we seem to do, collecting 6 to their 1.
The game ended in a dismal 3-1 with RSL fans feeling bummed. It’s been a nice playoff sprint we’ve had recently, and this was a sad halting moment. We need to do pretty much everything we can to make our way there at this point.
Highlights:
6′ Sub: David Horst replaces Marcelo Silva
11′ Goal: Piatti makes it 1-0 for the Impact.
26′ Goal: Luis Silva equalizes.
29′ Goal: Another Goal for Piatti.
37′ Yellow: Brooks Lennon.
Stoppage Time Yellow: Sunny goes into the book.
47′ Goal: Jackson makes it 3-1 for Montreal.
More yellow cards:
57′ : Chris Wingert
62′ : Evan Bush
66′ : Tony Beltran
67 Sub: Shaun Francis replaces Hassoun Camara
74′ Sub: Andres Romero replaces Blerim Dzemaili
6′ Sub: David Horst replaces Marcelo Silva
11′ Goal: Piatti makes it 1-0 for the Impact.
26′ Goal: Luis Silva equalizes.
29′ Goal: Another Goal for Piatti.
37′ Yellow: Brooks Lennon.
Stoppage Time Yellow: Sunny goes into the book.
47′ Goal: Jackson makes it 3-1 for Montreal.
More yellow cards:
57′ : Chris Wingert
62′ : Evan Bush
66′ : Tony Beltran
67 Sub: Shaun Francis replaces Hassoun Camara
74′ Sub: Andres Romero replaces Blerim Dzemaili
84′ Sub: Victor Cabrera comes on for Anthony Jackson-Hamel
85′ Sub: Yura replaces Chris Wingert
85’ Yellow: David Horst
Featured image courtesy: @sltribsports
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