Match Thread: CONCACAF Champions League - Round of 16 - Leg 1: Santos Laguna (Mexico) v CF Montreal - February 15, 2022

[narduch]

Match is at 10pm ET on One Soccer.

Santos Laguna are dead last in the Liga MX Clausura with 1 draw and 4 losses.

Ref crew:

The last time these 2 teams faced off:

 

Edited February 14, 2022 by narduch

[narduch]

 

[narduch]

 

[jonovision]

Montreal should be a very interesting team to watch for any MNT supporter/MLS neutral such as myself. Not a ton of young Canadian talent, but a lot of depth guys that are also depth guys for Canada. The one young guy they do have, Zouhir, is one I'm really interested to watch tonight, as he thought he was totally out of his depth when called upon last year. I may be out to lunch though.

[narduch]

Not a lot of fans

[Gian-Luca]

Wheeler mentioned Johnston is in "Covid Protocol"

[jonovision]

Nice goal Quioto. Glad he wasn't wasting his goal scoring a couple of weeks ago.

[jonovision]

Montreal get VARed. To be fair it was the right call. Wheeler perplexed, but he's wrong.

[Gian-Luca]

Yeah, I don't know why Wheeler is perplexed. Santos never got the ball back after the fall until it was in the back of the net, so of course it wipes out the goal

[jonovision]

This Santos team look pretty crap though.

[narduch]

Breza is shaky

[Shway]

15 minutes ago, narduch said:

Breza is shaky

just came up solid..and a few times before.

[Shway]

Waterman got caught out, but I believe there was a foul before. 

[narduch]

I guess I wasn't the only one that fell asleep. 

Santos scored in the 88th minute and won 1-0

Edited February 16, 2022 by narduch

[mtlfan]

2 hours ago, narduch said:

I guess I wasn't the only one that fell asleep. 

Santos scored in the 88th minute and won 2-0

1-0

[Metro]

Tough break for Montreal.  They were obviously gassed at the end which I'm sure lead to the goal.

They were otherwise able to swat Santos' reasonably well.  If they had a healthy Mason Toye, I don't see why they couldn't advance.