Major League Soccer match preview: Toronto versus Montreal Impact

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sat 23.October
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: BMO Field (30991 seats)

Toronto have some points to catch up on from their 13th place, and the task starts against Montreal Impact. Read more!

Insights:
  • Toronto have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Major League Soccer
  • Montreal Impact have won significantly less corners away then at home.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Toronto and Montreal Impact.

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Toronto form and stats

When playing at home in the Major League Soccer, Toronto have managed 4 wins, 5 draws and suffered 5 defeats from 14 games.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 200 minutes without scoring a league goal. Y. Soteldo was the last player to find the net.

Toronto faced defeat in their previous match, away at Inter Miami (0-3). Alejandro Pozuelo (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.65/10. Pozuelo hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 8 of 8 times and had 75 successful passes (of 84 total).

Ahead of that match, Toronto lost 0-2 at home to Atlanta United.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Toronto have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found ten matches with the results: Won four, drawn three and lost three.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Toronto as they have a new game in only four days, a Major League Soccer match thankfully also at home. Philadelphia Union are visiting.

The Toronto fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 20 in 14 matches. Toronto have conceded 21 from these games.

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Montreal Impact form and stats

There's been little loot from Montreal Impact's travels as they have only collected 14 points from 15 away games in the Major League Soccer. Montreal Impact only have 3 wins to counter their 7 defeats and 5 draws.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Orlando City (placed 4th) in their previous outing. The Major League Soccer match ended in a draw 1-1. Rudy Camacho was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.21. The defender Camacho scored one goal and won 6 of 10 duels.

Preceding that match was the 2-2 draw at home vs Philadelphia Union.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Montreal in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Montreal Impact, one draw and three defeats.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Championship trip to Forge.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Montreal have scored 16 goals in 15 league games away. Montreal Impact have conceded 19 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The two teams in this fixture also played each other previously this match year: Montreal Impact - Toronto 3-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: six - zero - four (Toronto wins - draws - Montreal Impact wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Montreal ImpactR. Quioto Robinson
R. Quioto Robinson
8 goals
Montreal ImpactM. Toye
M. Toye
7 goals
TorontoJ. Osorio
J. Osorio
4 goals

Toronto missing players

Montreal Impact missing players

Toronto Montreal Impact
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
30 14 3 Played P 5 15 30
6 4 0 Won W 2 3 11
7 5 2 Drew D 1 5 9
17 5 1 Lost L 2 7 10
34 20 3 Scored S 5 16 43
59 21 5 Conceded C 4 19 40
97% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 80% 93% 90%
87% 93% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 60% 73% 73%
57% 50% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 40% 53%
37% 36% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 13% 27%
20% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 13%
63% 71% 67% BTTS BTTS 40% 60% 63%
7% 7% 0% Clean Sheets C S 60% 20% 23%
33% 21% 33% Failed to Score F T 20% 27% 23%
 
4.5 5.2 5.3 Corners for (avg) C F 2.8 3.7 4.6
4.5 4.3 3.7 Corners against (avg) C A 4 5.3 4.3
1.7 2 2.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 2 2
4 2 1 Red cards R C 1 1 4
 
10.1 10.9 11 Shots (avg) S ( 9.6 10.8 12.3
3.6 4 3.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.8 3.3 4.4
31% 36% 27% Goal Efficiency G E 36% 32% 33%
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Montreal Impact have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Toronto have the fewest clean sheets (1) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the most conceded goals in the first half (29) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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 31 21 6 4 62 38 15 11 3 1 30 17 16 10 3 3 32 21 24 69
2 Nashville SC 30 11 16 3 47 27 16 8 8 0 34 17 14 3 8 3 13 10 20 49
3 Philadelphia Union 30 12 10 8 42 32 15 9 3 3 22 10 15 3 7 5 20 22 10 46
4 Orlando City 30 12 10 8 43 42 15 8 5 2 26 15 15 4 5 6 17 27 1 46
5 Atlanta United 30 11 10 9 40 34 15 8 4 3 22 12 15 3 6 6 18 22 6 43
6 Montreal Impact 30 11 9 10 43 40 15 8 4 3 27 21 15 3 5 7 16 19 3 42
7 New York City 30 11 8 11 45 34 14 8 3 3 29 12 16 3 5 8 16 22 11 41
8 DC United 30 12 5 13 51 44 15 10 1 4 30 14 15 2 4 9 21 30 7 41
9 New York RB 29 11 7 11 35 30 15 7 5 3 18 11 14 4 2 8 17 19 5 40
10 Columbus Crew 30 10 8 12 37 40 14 8 3 3 27 18 16 2 5 9 10 22 -3 38
11 Inter Miami 30 10 5 15 28 47 15 6 2 7 20 31 15 4 3 8 8 16 -19 35
12 Chicago Fire 31 8 7 16 35 51 16 6 5 5 22 18 15 2 2 11 13 33 -16 31
13 Toronto 30 6 7 17 34 59 14 4 5 5 20 21 16 2 2 12 14 38 -25 25
14 Cincinnati 30 4 8 18 32 59 15 1 5 9 13 21 15 3 3 9 19 38 -27 20

Read more about Major League Soccer

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.