MONTREAL IMPACT vs. REAL SALT LAKE
STADE SAPUTO, Montreal
May 16, 2015 (Week 11, MLS Game #102)
4 pm ET (MLS LIVE in US, TSN in Canada)
The Montréal Impact will look to get their league campaign headed in the right direction when they play host to Real Salt Lake on Saturday afternoon at Stade Saputo. The Impact are still winless for the year in MLS play, coming off a 2-1 home defeat by the Portland Timbers, though they again advanced to the final of the Canadian Championship at midweek. RSL snapped a five-game winless streak last time out, opening their road swing with a 2-1 win at Chicago.
- The Impact still have yet to win a league game this season, falling to 0-3-2 in their first MLS game in nearly a month, a 2-1 home defeat by the Portland Timbers on Saturday afternoon at Stade Saputo.
- When Álvaro Saborío scored the opening goal in Real Salt Lake’s 2-1 win at the Chicago Fire on Saturday, it was the first time an RSL player had scored in 509 minutes, since a Javier Morales goal April 5 vs. San Jose. The lone Real goal in between was an own goal; the victory snapped a five-game winless streak.
- The home team has won every meeting in the all-time series between the clubs. Real took a 3-1 victory last year in the lone meeting, July 24, 2014, their second victory against Montréal in two matches at Rio Tinto Stadium.
- The Impact have won the lone encounter at Stade Saputo, a 3-2 win on May 11, 2013.
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REFEREE: Silviu Petrescu. AR1 (bench): Daniel Belleau; AR2 (opposite): Philippe Briere; 4th: Kevin Terry Jr. MLS Career: 94 games; FC/gm: 27.5; Y/gm: 3.5; R: 12; pens: 16
SUSPENDED: MTL: Frank Klopas (head coach; through May 17)
WARNINGS:
SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: RSL: Kyle Beckerman, Luke Mulholland
SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: RSL: Abdoulie Mansally
DISABLED LIST: none
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none
HEAD-TO-HEAD
ALL-TIME (3 meetings): Impact 1 win, 4 goals … Real 2 wins, 6 goals … Ties 0
AT MONTRÉAL (1 meeting): Impact 1 win, 3 goals … Real 0 wins, 2 goals … Ties 0
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