Toye scores twice as CF Montreal crushes Minnesota
MONTREAL — CF Montreal will head into the worldwide break with a win, decisively beating Minnesota United 4-0 at Stade Saputo on Saturday evening in Major League Soccer motion.
The break additionally places an finish to a congested run of video games the place Montreal performed 11 instances in 36 days.
Toye, with objectives within the seventh and 57th minutes, bought offensive assist from Zachary Brault-Guillard with a objective within the thirteenth minute and Rudy Camacho within the 76th. Montreal improved to 7-9-1 with the win, whereas Minnesota (5-7-5) has now misplaced eight of its final 9 video games on the street in all competitions.
This was Montreal’s seventh consecutive win at dwelling in all competitions, holding a clear sheet in each considered one of them.
“The positivity in this group has been so important, any players that is in the group has the right mindset,” mentioned head coach Hernan Losada. “This run was honestly extremely tiring. I’m exhausted. If I feel this way, I can only imagine how the players feel, this schedule was madness.”
The recreation started with an indicator that it could be performed in a wide-open method as each groups loved stints of possession in superior areas.
Just seven minutes into the sport, Montreal’s verticality cut up Minnesota down the center as Toye ran by the defence earlier than lobbing it over the goalkeeper. There have been no celebrations from the 2018 Minnesota United draftee out of respect for his former membership, however there did seem like a weight lifted off his shoulders after scuffling with health since arriving on the membership.
“Football is a weird sport with a lot of ebbs and flows,” mentioned Toye who needed to stability runs of excellent type with three separate surgical procedures throughout his time in Montreal.
“The past few years have been crazy for me and hopefully that stops. I’ve worked really hard with (Alessandro Marconato) our rehab guy who’s done all three of my rehabs and he’s unbelievable.”
On the again of Toye’s objective and a raucous Stade Saputo crowd, Montreal continued to press the psychological benefit and capitalize on the momentum of their favour.
Just 5 minutes later, Montreal would double its lead when an inch-perfect cross-field ball from Gabriele Corbo picked out Brault-Guillard in alone. The wing again made no mistake, blasting the ball into the roof of the online.
Minnesota got here out of the halftime break with renewed enthusiasm as star midfielder Emmanuel Reynoso made solely his second look of this season. After having regained management of the tempo, Montreal prolonged its lead simply earlier than the hour mark.
A well-placed cross from Brault-Guillard led to a scramble within the penalty space that allowed Toye to pounce on a free ball and safe his brace.
“Working as a second-string player, it’s on me to make the most of the minutes I’m given and show my character,” mentioned Brault-Guillard who has impressed in current substitute appearances. “Whenever I get the chance to showcase my offence and bring my speed, I do what I can to help the team and show my value.”
United replied with a pair of probabilities as Franco Fragapane was performed in twice however was rejected each instances by Montreal ‘keeper Jonathan Sirois.
The dwelling facet then put the sport away with quarter-hour left when Camacho was capable of redirect a nook from Bryce Duke into the underside nook of the online, making the rating 4-0.
“The message at halftime was `the game isn’t over, let’s go for the third or the fourth goal’ and we pressed even more than at the start of the game,” mentioned Losada. “All our substitutions were with the mentality of playing forward and scoring goals. Of course, we took risks and they could’ve scored one or two times, but that’s the style of CF Montreal.”
UP NEXT
There can be no MLS motion for the subsequent two weeks as chosen gamers will be a part of their nationwide groups. Montreal will return to Stade Saputo on June 21 and host Nashville SC, whereas Minnesota takes on Real Salt Lake on June 24.
