Joe Public 1- 4 L’Impact, Nous Jouons Comme Des Champions !

By: Marco Stucazzo | October 12th, 2008

The Vancouver Whitecaps might have won the USL championship (with the Help of L’Impact, Gbeke scoring both goals) but L’Impact is still playing. Playing well on top of it ; Joe Public saw 4 goals pass them by at home while L’Impact got over the Vancouver game with a Trinidadian Trashing !

Rocco Placentino (4′), Tony Donatelli (12′ and 78’) and Peter Byers (43′) scored for the Impact. Kerry Noray (9′) scored the lone goal for the Caribbean side.

“It’s a great win due to a big effort from the whole team,” said Impact head coach John Limniatis. “When you score four goals, you have great chances to win. Once again tonight we did well defensively. We proved again to everybody that we have a very good team that is capable of qualifying for the next round.”

“We are quite happy with tonight’s result and to be almost sure to move onto the next round,” said Donatelli. “We are very proud of ourselves for what we have accomplished.”

The least we can say is that L’Impact bounced back from their USL Semi-Final loss. Montréal will play its final two CONCACAF Champions League group stage games on Tuesday, October 21 against CD Olimpia at Saputo Stadium, as well as the following Tuesday, October 28, against Atlante FC in Cancun, Mexico.

On est en feu ! Malgré la défaite à Vancouver, l’impact c’est bien débrouillé en CONCACAF jusqu’à maintenant. Vancouver peut bien se vanter d’avoir gagner le trophée de la USL mais reste que la saison de l’Impact n’est pas finie. Nous jouons toujours pour les honneurs continentaux ! L’Impact a de très bonne chance de sortir premier de son groupe de la Ligue des Champions de la CONCACAF !

Le match contre Atlante a Cancun démontrera bien le potentiel de l’impact à se rendre loin dans cette première participation au tournoi de la CONCACAF

Allez Montréal !

Category: Montreal, Montreal Impact Team News

Tags: Champions League, concacaf, Montreal, Montreal Impact Team News, Saputo

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• Andrei |  October 13th, 2008 at 1:19 am

  
  
  

  Good job Impact! I follow their champions league matches on CBC at midnight every time they play and I grew fond of this team. They have the potential to do great things and a move to the MLS can only breathe fresh air into the sails of this exciting squad. Something tells me they have what it takes to take this competition. allez-l’Impact!

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• Franck |  October 13th, 2008 at 9:04 am

  
  
  

  and so close to automatically qualifying for the Quarters…Atlante needed one more goal (or one less allowed)…hey, not only are we leading our group, we have more points than any team after 4 matches in the Group Stage.

  Keep it up!

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• Nate |  October 13th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

  
  
  

  Bonne chance, j’espère que vous entriez l’étage prochain.

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• mike |  October 26th, 2008 at 6:59 am

  
  
  

  does anyone know where Montreal is going to play the quarter final home match?

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• Marco |  October 29th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

  
  
  

  We know nothing yet !

  Posted from Canada

  

• Franck |  November 2nd, 2008 at 1:23 pm

  
  
  

  I’m more curious to know WHO we will be playing. As it stands, we could face either Saprissa, Maraton, Pumas, or Santos Laguna…I’m hoping for Santos…not sure we want to face Pumas or Saprissa.

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• mike |  November 26th, 2008 at 6:51 am

  
  
  

  MLS dream is over….

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• Cris |  December 19th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

  
  
  

  The dream is not over… its just postponed. The Montreal top brass have made the best decision for the club in my opinion.

  They will get a franchise, when the MLS sees the failiure of St Louis and Miami.

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