MLS - April 25 - Montreal (Away)

[LionNYC]

CF Montréal vs. New York City Football Club
Saturday, April 25 2:30 PM ET
Stade Saputo
Apple TV

 

[mgarbowski]

Injury report via NY Soccer Journal.
Perea back, Wolf out.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2047795588893122603

 

[Shwafta]

Injury report via NY Soccer Journal.
Peres back, Wolf out.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2047795588893122603

Perea is back already???? Holy crap! Would never have expected that!

 

[mgarbowski]

Perea is back already???? Holy crap! Would never have expected that!

Our midfield is stacked. Our frontline, not so much.

 

[FootyLovin]

Bonjour les chiennes.

C'est le jour du match (avec une poutine délicieuse).

Allez!!!!!!!

 

[mgarbowski]

It's hard to know what to expect from the Clubfeets. The beat RB twice, including the first game a week ago under their new head coach. But they lost to everyone else, including the terrible Orlando, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia. And every metric says RB is worse than their record, so it's unclear how much that proves. Yet overall, their schedule to date has been among the league's toughest with 6 Away and just 2 at home.

I'm going in planning not to make too much out of any result. If we lose, it might just be an Away loss to a team that's much better than it seems. OTOH if we win, maybe CFdeM really is as bad as its record.

 

[moogoo]

Lol no one has anything to say. And that seems about right.

At least gray gets a break now

 

[mgarbowski]

At least gray gets a break now

He'll probably play Wednesday though, unless they want to give him a full 2 week rest.

 

[CCMore]

Me:

 

[Matchday Logbot]

Spoiler: Matchday Log

Apr 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM - LionNYC: In Montreal! Birthday match! Let’s get it!
Apr 25, 2026 at 1:31 PM - mgarbowski: Happy birthday match day !
Apr 25, 2026 at 1:31 PM - Gene: Farnos with the start.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2048091799432872443

Apr 25, 2026 at 1:34 PM - Gene: Perea on the bench
Apr 25, 2026 at 2:10 PM - moogoo: Farnos gets the start over talles.
Apr 25, 2026 at 2:33 PM - Gene: Ian with the color!
Apr 25, 2026 at 2:33 PM - Kenny: Good to see Keaton starting
Apr 25, 2026 at 2:40 PM - Gene: GAME ON!!!
Apr 25, 2026 at 2:53 PM - Gene: Does anyone here know how to play this game?
Apr 25, 2026 at 2:53 PM - Marito: Trewin and KOT with mistakes that almost got costly
Apr 25, 2026 at 2:54 PM - Kenny: Whatever we’re trying to do it’s not working
Apr 25, 2026 at 2:55 PM - Revfugee: Are they having. Issues with kit confusion?
Apr 25, 2026 at 2:56 PM - Revfugee: Both clubs dinking under hit balls
Apr 25, 2026 at 2:58 PM - Gene: Of course.
Apr 25, 2026 at 2:59 PM - Revfugee: Trewin is having a nightmare day already.
Apr 25, 2026 at 2:59 PM - gbservis: This is what an exhausted team looks like. Having no depth has officially caught up with us.
Apr 25, 2026 at 2:59 PM - Marito: Weak from Trewin. I mean, Owusu is damn strong, but still
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM - Gene: "Looking up knowing exactly where his striker will be."
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:04 PM - gbservis: Is Magno still not fit enough to start or does Pascal rate an nycfc II player over him?
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:04 PM - Revfugee: Piette looks like a Sunday league player-manager
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:08 PM - gbservis: Opps no striker!
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:10 PM - gbservis: Is the field slow? they are under hitting nearly every pass.
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:10 PM - Marito: Really, Ojeda has put a dozen plus of those balls in play thus far in the season and not one has been taken advantage of
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:15 PM - Kenny: This is demoralizing. No longer looking forward to Jersey on Wednesday
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:16 PM - moogoo: We suck. No confidence. No swagger.
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:16 PM - moogoo: Montreal dropping into a low block and we can't do anything
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:18 PM - gbservis: Opps no striker again!
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:18 PM - Gene: "Where's that striker for New York?"
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:19 PM - Marito: Really those crosses from Ojeda should be a drinking game
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:19 PM - Marito: I mean, he's actually doing his job
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:21 PM - gbservis: Pascal making a point. Okay guys go out there and cross to no one over and over, maybe Dunivant will get the point.
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:31 PM - LionNYC: The first 30 minutes was horrible. A better team scores three against us. We looked better in the final 15 minutes but still nothing. Did we even register a shot on goal?
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:36 PM - moogoo: One shot that I remember
Apr 25, 2026 at 3:46 PM - Kenny: One on target
Apr 25, 2026 at 4:03 PM - BxLio91: Parks is having a bad game
Apr 25, 2026 at 4:10 PM - Kenny: This is not an enjoyable watch
Apr 25, 2026 at 4:16 PM - twsj91: Gray said fuck this I need a break and gave himself a vacation
Apr 25, 2026 at 4:16 PM - BxLio91: 2 stupid fucking yellows
Apr 25, 2026 at 4:17 PM - mgarbowski: Challenges like that can happen when you’re tired
Apr 25, 2026 at 4:19 PM - BxLio91: So many balls lost by Morales because he doesn't have the legs anymore
Apr 25, 2026 at 4:20 PM - Kenny: They look better with 10 than they did with 11
Apr 25, 2026 at 4:25 PM - BxLio91: Ref is no nonsense
Apr 25, 2026 at 4:26 PM - BxLio91: For once. I'm not even mad at him
Apr 25, 2026 at 4:29 PM - Revfugee: this is just slop
Apr 25, 2026 at 4:31 PM - Revfugee: This is the first time under Pascal that I’ve felt like I used to during Cushing
Apr 25, 2026 at 4:34 PM - Revfugee: What a shitshow.
Apr 25, 2026 at 4:36 PM - Revfugee: Only decent thing there is Ian on the mic.

 

[Shwafta]

I watched the game now. Half of that game was just "Wow, imagine if there was a striker on the end of that Ojeda (or other person) cross. Instead we have... not even a shot. It happens SO many times. Do we track how many crosses weren't converted into shots?

 

[mgarbowski]

I watched the game now. Half of that game was just "Wow, imagine if there was a striker on the end of that Ojeda (or other person) cross. Instead we have... not even a shot. It happens SO many times. Do we track how many crosses weren't converted into shots?

When Ojeda leads a fast break that is not an OGSO, he always runs to the baseline and looks to serve a cross or cut-back regardless of conditions, including whether there's anybody there to receive the his service. Sometimes he realizes nobody is there and passes backwards to recycle; sometimes he crosses to ghosts. I don't know which explanation is most accurate:

1. It's all he's comfortable doing so he just keeps doing it regardless of coaching, or
2. He's coached to do it, because the coaches know it's all he can do, or
3. He's coached to do it even though he could do more because the coaches are making a point to the FO. or
4. Our coaches are dumb and don't notice we almost never have a timely trailing runner in center (or left), front of goal, or
5. Someone else is coached to run the center-left gap straight at goal and never does, or does so late.

Are there other options?