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ORLANDO, Fla. – Montreal CF gave up three first-half goals en route to a 4-1 blowout to Orlando City Soccer Club in Friday’s 2024 League Cup group stage opener.
The Floridians got goals from Dagur Thorhallsson (seventh minute), Facundo Torres (37th minute), Ramiro Enrique (45th minute stoppage time) and Martin Ojeda (57th minute).
Josef Martínez scored his fifth goal of the year for Montreal in the 69th minute to prevent the shutout.
“Orlando wanted this game more than we did. We need to solve some defensive shortcomings, get back to the right mindset and turn the page so we can start anew against San Luis,” Montreal coach Laurent Courtois said.
“Now we’re going to prepare for the next game. The result tonight was a disappointment. I can see that we are struggling with execution and occupying space, as well as making some decisions. That’s what we’re trying to solve.”
CF Montreal will conclude the group stage of the tournament by hosting Atlético de San Luis of LIGA MX on Tuesday at Stade Saputo.
“I can’t speak for the other players. Sometimes our body language shows frustration when we give up easy goals. I don’t think there is a tactical problem. We did some good things with the ball. It’s not our weak point,” said Montreal’s Joel Waterman.
“However, we were too open and spread out. We need to improve our counter attack and make ourselves more difficult to deal with. We left too much room for them to exploit, and they took advantage of it. It could have been better tonight.”
Montreal was outshot 24-9 (10-4 on target) and there were two of seven corners in the game.
This report was first published by The Canadian Press on July 26, 2024.
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