CF Montreal is currently one of three remaining Winless teams in MLS. They hope that a return to the home park can lead to a long -awaited three points.
Montreal (0-5-2, 2 points) hosts Charlotte FC on Saturday night, the Canadian team’s first performance at Stade Saputo this season after a seven match on the road.
While Montreal received a point in Marco Donadel’s first match as Interim’s head coach on March 29, it was back to its losing way a week later and released a 2-1 decision to the Columbus crew. The feeling about the club’s overall effort was still positive.
“I think we finally go up and we’re tired of having this feeling, flying home, wake up in the morning and thinking” what if I should have done this? What if I would have done it? “, Said midfielder Caden Clark.” I think for us, we have had enough … of just self -awareness and just not good enough. “
Charlotte (4-2-1, 13 points) is currently sitting fourth in the eastern conference and only two points behind the eastern leader Columbus. Coach Dean Smith’s team comes from a 2-1 victory over Nashville SC, but will meet Montreal without Wilfried Zaha, who underwent surgery on his left thumb on Monday.
Charlotte’s first half against Nashville please Smith, so the priority this time is to maintain a consistent playing style for 90 minutes.
“We were not good for 32 minutes, and I think it is always important that we do not get distracted between playing style and playing field,” Smith said on Thursday. “The only thing we changed last week was our game plan without the ball, which was to push from out to in … our playing style should not have changed at all.”
Charlotte is among the league’s better score, its 12 goals bound for sixth in the league. Zaha and Pep Biel have two goals per piece. Biel also has five assists, bound with San Jose’s Cristian Espinoza for the league leadership.
Conversely, Montreal made only four times through his first seven matches, with Prince Owusu who did twice and Dante Sealy and Nathan Saliba chipped in a goal.
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