Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Toronto & Montreal Impact face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Championship. All the pre-match information is available here!
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Toronto form and stats
Last season their Championship adventure ended in the final.2-3-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Major League Soccer numbers at home for Toronto so far this season.
The Toronto crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-2 to New England here at BMO Field. The forward Bernardeschi bettered all the other players in that match and managed a match rating of 7.32 out of 10. Bernardeschi hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times and had 42 successful passes (of 47 total).
Ahead of that match, Toronto won a home game hosting New York City (1-0).This is expected to be a close game, with Toronto perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Toronto as a small favourite), we find 16 games. Toronto has won 5 of these, drawn 6 and lost 5.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Toronto as they are travelling to their away game against Montreal Impact in the Major League Soccer. That match is four days after this one.
Toronto are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 8 goals in 6 games. 7 goals have been conceded.
Montreal Impact form and stats
Last season their Championship adventure ended in the semi-finals.There's been little loot from Montreal Impact's travels as they have only collected 3 points from 6 away games in the Major League Soccer. Montreal Impact only have 1 win to counter their 5 defeats and 0 draws.
Montreal have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Logan Ketterer. It's been 314 minutes since they last conceded in Major League Soccer.
Montreal Impact had fun at their own home (BMO Field) last time out, beating Orlando City 2-0. Quioto scored. Defender Camacho was the best team player with a rating of 7.41. Camacho hit the woodwork once and won 5 of 8 duels.
Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Sporting KC.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Montreal Impact playing away and similar expectations, we found 14 relevant matches. Results were 8 Montreal Impact wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats.
A quick return to home after this game, as Montreal are hosting Toronto in the Major League Soccer only four days away.
There's been a serious shortage of goals from Montreal Impact's away games in the league this season with only {2 goals} from 6 matches. The Montreal manager Losada has some worries about the defense as 14 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Toronto three wins, one draw and Montreal Impact six victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  F. Bernardeschi 3 goals |   R. Quioto Robinson 3 goals |  R. Laryea 2 goals |
Toronto missing players
Montreal Impact missing players
| Toronto | Montreal Impact | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Won | W | 6 | 15 | ||
| 9 | 6 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | ||
| 12 | 5 | Lost | L | 5 | 8 | ||
| 32 | 21 | Scored | S | 14 | 40 | ||
| 48 | 24 | Conceded | C | 19 | 33 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 84% | 86% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 82% | 80% | ||
| 64% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 45% | 48% | ||
| 48% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 40% | ||
| 16% | 7% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 16% | ||
| 60% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 27% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 14% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 36% | ||
| 28% | 21% | Failed to Score | F T | 45% | 28% | ||
| 4.7 | 5.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.2 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 3.6 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2.1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 11.3 | 12.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.5 | 10.2 | ||
| 3.8 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.8 | ||
| 36% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 42% | ||
| 11.9 | 9.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.9 | 10.5 | ||
| 4.5 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.4 | 4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | New England | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 24 |
| 2 | Cincinnati | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 24 |
| 3 | Nashville SC | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 18 |
| 4 | Atlanta United | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 18 |
| 5 | New York City | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 15 |
| 6 | Columbus Crew | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 14 |
| 7 | Philadelphia Union | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 14 |
| 8 | DC United | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 14 |
| 9 | Orlando City | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | -2 | 14 |
| 10 | Inter Miami | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | -1 | 12 |
| 11 | Toronto | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -2 | 12 |
| 12 | Charlotte | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 12 | -8 | 12 |
| 13 | Montreal Impact | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 14 | -8 | 12 |
| 14 | Chicago Fire | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -3 | 11 |
| 15 | New York RB | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -4 | 9 |
