Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Montreal Impact & Forge face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Championship. All the pre-match information is available here!
Forge play their home fixtures on artifical turf, while this fixture takes place on grass. Relevant results for Forge when featuring on grass are 10 wins, 5 draws and 10 defeats from 25 matches. They have created 28 goals and conceded 28 times in these games.
Montreal Impact have less rest than Forge in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Major League Soccer game only three days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Real Salt Lake, was also a home game here at Stade Saputo. The away team is better rested.
Montreal Impact form and stats
3-0-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Major League Soccer numbers at home for Montreal Impact so far this season.
Montreal's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Real Salt Lake. The forward Mihailovic was declared "man of the match" for Montreal Impact with a rating of 7.42/10. Mihailovic scored one goal and had 24 successful passes (of 30 total).
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Nashville SC (1-2).The match schedule is unforgiving for Montreal Impact as they have a new game in only three days, a Major League Soccer match thankfully also at home. Cincinnati are visiting.
Montreal Impact's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 7 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Forge form and stats
They also participated in Championship last season. This ended in the semi-finals.Things could have gone better for Forge in their Premier League away matches, but 3 points from 3 games is all right.
It's the second away game in a row for Forge, but there's smiles all around after the 4-0 victory versus HFX Wanderers last time out. As you can tell from the results above, Forge was very dominant against HFX Wanderers, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 4-0 (!) with Welshman, Pacius and Choinière (2) providing the goals.
A draw for Forge before that, at their own venue hosting Atletico Ottawa (1-1).Forge are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 5 times in 3 away games so far.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  D. Mihailovic 7 goals |  J. Torres 3 goals |  R. Quioto Robinson 3 goals |
Montreal Impact missing players
Forge missing players
| Montreal Impact | Forge | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Won | W | 4 | 10 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 37 | 21 | Scored | S | 14 | 36 | ||
| 33 | 13 | Conceded | C | 15 | 25 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 88% | ||
| 80% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 58% | 64% | ||
| 56% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 52% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 4% | ||
| 60% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 44% | ||
| 20% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 36% | ||
| 24% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 32% | ||
| 5.5 | 6.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 5.6 | ||
| 4.9 | 4.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.2 | 3 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.3 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 11.5 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.7 | 9.4 | ||
| 4.7 | 5.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 4.4 | ||
| 31% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 32% | ||
| 11.7 | 8.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.8 | 7.3 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.5 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Philadelphia Union | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 24 |
| 2 | New York City | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 23 |
| 3 | Orlando City | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | -1 | 21 |
| 4 | New York RB | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 20 |
| 5 | Montreal Impact | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 23 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 16 | 1 | 20 |
| 6 | Cincinnati | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 19 |
| 7 | Atlanta United | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 16 |
| 8 | Charlotte | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | -4 | 16 |
| 9 | New England | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 15 | -1 | 15 |
| 10 | Inter Miami | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -8 | 15 |
| 11 | DC United | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 14 |
| 12 | Columbus Crew | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 13 |
| 13 | Toronto | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 25 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 15 | -7 | 12 |
| 14 | Chicago Fire | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -6 | 11 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Pacific | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 17 |
| 2 | Cavalry | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 11 |
| 3 | Atletico Ottawa | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | -3 | 11 |
| 4 | York9 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 5 | Forge | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 6 | Valour | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 8 |
| 7 | HFX Wanderers | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | -3 | 8 |
| 8 | Edmonton | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -10 | 3 |
