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Montreal Impact vs. Rochester Rhinos
Date/time: Friday, July 25th, 2008 8:00 pm EDT
Location: PAETEC Park, Rochester, NY
Weather: Sunny
Attendance: 8,948

Tonight's Match:  Rochester's meeting with the rival Montreal Impact tonight at PAETEC Park is the first time the two clubs have met this season.  The two last faced each other on September 8, 2007 in front of a crowd of 12,448 at PAETEC Park, a match in which Rochester topped the impact with a 2-0 win.

Montreal:  The Impact will be riding quite a bit of momentum into this match as they took home the Nutrilite Canadian Championship on Tuesday, July 22nd. Dispite their Canadian success, the Impact currently sit in 10th place in the USL First Division standings with a 5-8-3 record after a 3-1 win over Miami last Friday. That win was the first Montreal had seen since June 22nd as the team has gone 3-4-3 in their last 10 matches.  Impact keeper Matthew Jordan ranks third in the league with a goals against average of 0.800 and fourths in the league for goals against with only 12. 

Montreal Notes:

  • Montreal won the Nutrilite Canadian Championship last Tuesday with a draw against Toronto FC.
  • The Impact also earned the Voyageurs Cup for the seventh consecutive year, thereby advancing to the CONCACAF Champions League.
  • The Impact rank tenth among First Division teams with 13 goals. Montreal has been shut out eight times this season in 16 games played.
  • Stefano Pesoli and Severino Jefferson both earned USL-1 team of the week honors for their goals in the 3-1 victory over Miami.

Rochester Notes:

  • Rochester midfielder Johnny Menyongar was named USL First Division Player of the Week this week for his one goal and two assists in two games last weekend.
  • Luke Kreamalmeyer , Danny Earls, and Scott Vallow also received league honors with Team of the Week selections.

What's Next:  Rochester head to Montreal for another match with the Impact on Sunday, July 27 at 3:30 p.m.  The Rhinos return home on Sunday, Sugust 5th to face the Atlanta Silverbacks at 6:00 p.m. at PAETEC Park.

GOALSH1 H2 O1 O2 TOTAL
Montreal 0 1 1
Rochester 0 1 1
FOULSH1 H2 O1 O2 TOTAL
Montreal 6 5 11
Rochester 6 5 11
SHOTSH1 H2 O1 O2 TOTAL
Montreal 6 8 14
Rochester 1 5 6
OFFSIDESH1 H2 O1 O2 TOTAL
Montreal 0 2 2
Rochester 1 1 2
SAVESH1 H2 O1 O2 TOTAL
Montreal 0 0 0
Rochester 1 2 3
CORNERSH1 H2 O1 O2 TOTAL
Montreal 2 3 5
Rochester 1 7 8
REFEREEOscar Ortiz
ASST. REFEREEAndrew Evangelos
ASST. REFEREEMark Lammerhirt
4TH OFFICIALFranco Bevilacqua
POS#STARTERSMINGASF
D13BALL, John90   1
D16EARLS, Danny901 1 
D20PALGUTA, Scott90   3
M4KREAMALMEYER, Luke90 1  
M6FITZPATRICK, Tiger86   1
M7GUPPY, Steve86  1 
M12GREGOR, Andrew45   2
F8SALLES, Mauricio90  11
F10MENYONGAR, Johnny90  12
POS#SUBSTITUTESMINGASF
D2CRAFT, Nate0    
D23LOERA, Alfonso4    
D27BONSEU, Tenywa0    
F9DELICāTE, Matthew45  11
F20SEVERS, Chad0    
F35MARTINEZ, Rey Angel4    
G=Goals, A=Assists, S=Shots, F=Fouls11511

POS#GOALKEEPERSMINSHFCSAVESGA
GK24VALLOW, Scott901431
GK1MELIA , Tim0   
 1431

With the Rochester Rhinos looking to extend their unbeaten streak to ten games, and the Montreal Impact trying to regain their early season form, the two rivals took the field for this nationally televised (Fox Soccer Channel) match.

The first half played much like the gritty history the two teams share, with each side trying to establish themselves on the pitch.  Although Montreal out-shot the Rhinos by a six to one margin, the half ended with the score nil to nil.

The second half was a different story as the Rhinos seemed to draw energy from the raucous, season-high crowd (8,948) and immediately looked crisper.  They found themselves in a place they had not been much in the first half; the offensive third of the field.  That effort would finally pay off as Danny Earls recorded his first goal as a member of the Rhinos and put Rochester ahead by one.  The goal was set up on a lefty cross from Steve Guppy that Montreal keeper Matthew Jordan managed to punch away from a hard charging Matthew Delicâte.  The punch out, however, would find Earls just outside the back post who tallied a left footed volley into the back of the net. 

Montreal responded just nine minutes later to tie the match at one to one.  A Rochester foul set up a free kick from 25 yards out that Montreal's Leonardo DiLorenzo hammered through the Rochester wall and tucked inside the left post past a diving Scott Vallow. 

The remaining 23 minutes of the match saw much action but no more goals were to be had.  Montreal out-shot the Rhinos fourteen to six and Scott Vallow recorded three saves for the Rhinos.  These same two teams take to the pitch again this Sunday in a 3:30 matchup in Montreal.
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