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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sat 16.July
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Saputo (20801 seats)

Montreal Impact are listed as favourites to win this home match against Toronto, if the league standings are to be trusted. Or are we in for a surprise?

Insights:
  • Montreal Impact have the most points from losing position (14) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Major League Soccer

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Major League Soccer game only three days ago. That game was also an away game, at Chicago Fire. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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Montreal Impact form and stats

When playing at home in the Major League Soccer, Montreal Impact have managed 5 wins, 0 draws and suffered 4 defeats from 9 games.

The Montreal supporters got no joy from their last match, also played here at Stade Saputo: A 1-2 defeat against Sporting KC. Midfielder Lappalainen was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.85 (out of ten) in that game. Lappalainen hit three key passes and had 28 successful passes (of 34 total).

Heartbreak before that as Montreal Impact lost 0-4 at LA Galaxy's place.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Montreal Impact matches with similar probabilities have ended with 2 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats (from 5 games).

Observe: 15 of the latest 18 league matches from this club have seen goals scored by both teams.

Montreal have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stade Saputo with 17 goals in 9 league matches. Montreal Impact have conceded 14 from these games.

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Toronto form and stats

There's been little loot from Toronto's travels as they have only collected 3 points from 9 away games in the Major League Soccer. Toronto only have 0 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 3 draws.

Two away games in a row for Toronto, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-2 versus Chicago Fire. MacNaughton was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.15. The defender MacNaughton won 5 of 7 duels.

A 2-2 draw was the result before that, hosting SJ Earthquakes.

The visiting Toronto have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 10 goals from 9 games. Toronto have conceded 19 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Montreal Impact victories, one draw and five Toronto wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

TorontoJ. Jiménez Núñez
J. Jiménez Núñez
8 goals
Montreal ImpactD. Mihailovic
D. Mihailovic
7 goals
Montreal ImpactR. Quioto Robinson
R. Quioto Robinson
7 goals

Montreal Impact missing players

Toronto missing players

Montreal Impact Toronto
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
19 9 1 Played P 2 9 20
9 5 1 Won W 0 0 5
2 0 0 Drew D 0 3 4
8 4 0 Lost L 2 6 11
33 17 2 Scored S 4 10 26
35 14 1 Conceded C 7 19 38
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
95% 89% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 89% 90%
79% 89% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 44% 65%
32% 22% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 33% 30%
26% 22% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 11% 15%
79% 89% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 56% 70%
5% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
16% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 44% 30%
 
5.2 5.3 7 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 3.7 4.5
4.3 3.9 8 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4.8 5.2
2.5 2.3 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.1 1.9
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
12.3 12.9 18 Shots (avg) S ( 8 9.1 9.8
4.6 5 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.7 4
38% 38% 67% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 30% 32%
 
10.6 8.3 13 Shots against (avg) S A 18.5 16 15.1
4.2 3.4 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 9.5 6.6 5.9
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Montreal Impact have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Montreal Impact have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Montreal Impact have the most points from losing position (14) in Major League Soccer
  • Montreal Impact haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Toronto have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Toronto have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the fewest points (3) away in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Toronto have yet to win a game away.
  • Toronto haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 20 9 9 2 31 14 10 5 5 0 18 5 10 4 4 2 13 9 17 36
2 New York City 19 10 5 4 38 21 11 7 3 1 28 12 8 3 2 3 10 9 17 35
3 New York RB 20 9 6 5 30 21 9 3 4 2 14 10 11 6 2 3 16 11 9 33
4 Montreal Impact 19 9 2 8 33 35 9 5 0 4 17 14 10 4 2 4 16 21 -2 29
5 Orlando City 20 8 5 7 25 29 10 5 0 5 15 19 10 3 5 2 10 10 -4 29
6 Cincinnati 20 7 6 7 32 35 10 3 3 4 19 18 10 4 3 3 13 17 -3 27
7 Columbus Crew 19 6 8 5 25 22 8 3 2 3 10 7 11 3 6 2 15 15 3 26
8 Charlotte 20 8 2 10 23 24 10 7 0 3 15 7 10 1 2 7 8 17 -1 26
9 New England 19 6 7 6 31 32 10 4 4 2 15 12 9 2 3 4 16 20 -1 25
10 Atlanta United 19 6 5 8 28 30 10 5 3 2 19 14 9 1 2 6 9 16 -2 23
11 Inter Miami 19 6 4 9 19 29 10 5 2 3 15 14 9 1 2 6 4 15 -10 22
12 Chicago Fire 20 5 5 10 20 27 10 4 3 3 11 8 10 1 2 7 9 19 -7 20
13 Toronto 20 5 4 11 26 38 11 5 1 5 16 19 9 0 3 6 10 19 -12 19
14 DC United 18 5 3 10 25 39 10 3 2 5 15 17 8 2 1 5 10 22 -14 18

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Major League Soccer (often known simply as MLS) is the top level of football (soccer) in the United States and Canada. MLS has 24 teams divided into two conferences, Eastern and Western. Each team play 34 fixtures to decide a league table champion. The top fourteen teams then compete in playoff to crown a MLS Cup champion.