CF MONTRÉAL (1) – TORONTO FC (0) POST GAME SUMMARY

July 16, 2022 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Toronto FC News Release

CF MONTRÉAL (1) – TORONTO FC (0) POST GAME SUMMARY

SCORING SUMMARY

MTL – Lukas MacNaughton 69′ (own goal)

MISCONDUCT SUMMARY

TOR – Michael Bradley 46′ (caution)

MTL – Kamal Miller 57′ (caution)

MTL – Kamal Miller 81′ (ejection)

MTL – Zachary Brault-Guillard 87′ (caution)

RECORDS (W-L-D)

Toronto FC 5-12-4 19 points

CF Montréal 10-8-2 32 points

LINEUPS

TORONTO FC – Alex Bono; Kosi Thompson, Shane O’Neill, Lukas MacNaughton, Domenico Criscito; Deandre Kerr (Ifunanyachi Achara 90′), Michael Bradley (C), Mark-Anthony Kaye, Luca Petrasso (Jacob Shaffelburg 90′); Ayo Akinola, Jesús Jiménez

Substitutes Not Used: Quentin Westberg, Kadin Chung, Themi Antonoglou, Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty, Jordan Perruzza

CF MONTRÉAL – James Pantemis; Joel Waterman, Rudy Camacho, Kamal Miller; Alistair Johnston (Zachary Brault-Guillard 80′), Samuel Piette (C), Victor Wanyama, Lassi Lappalainen, Matko Miljevic (Djordje Mihailovic 60′); Kei Kamara (Mason Toye 60′), Romell Quioto (Gabriele Corbo 84′)

Substitutes Not Used: Sebastian Breza, Joaquín Torres, Ismaël Koné, Mathieu Choinière, Jojea Kwizera

BOB BRADLEY – HEAD COACH, TORONTO FC

Q. What did you make of the performance?

Under pressure most of the game, I thought we defended for the most part pretty well but weren’t able to put enough football together and not able to connect enough which just kept us deep.

You know, we spoke at halftime about ways we can still get out a little bit more, the way they set up, especially on one side. I thought we did a little better in the second half but still not enough football. And then we really make a mess out of the goal kick that leads 15, 20 seconds before the goal, short to my Mimmo, under pressure to Shane and probably he has to take a touch, move the ball forward and we move out. On the end of the play, the cross to the back post, we don’t do a good enough job in that area and Alex gets caught wandering a little.

Q. Can you walk us through the decision to play with that back three tonight and what did you see from Shane O’Neill in that central role there?

Yeah, when we found out that Oso was having some — it was a concussion protocol which we didn’t fully determine until mid day today, we decided to switch to the back three, and the way Montréal plays, especially at home, they put the backs very high and flat across the line and we felt we could handle that better playing three in the back.

You know, Shane in his role in the…