📏 Form Guide

CF Montreal

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CF Montreal go into this game coming off the back of a 2-2 Canadian Championship tied result vs Toronto FC.

For CF Montreal, goals were scored by Joel Waterman (70') and Giacomo Vrioni (88'). Theo Corbeanu (29') and Tyrese Spicer (74') scored for Toronto FC. The match went to penalties and was won 3-2 by CF Montreal.

CF Montreal have found it difficult to unlock defences of late. Their goals record equals just 2 versus opponents during the course of their previous 6 fixtures. In those meetings, CF Montreal have also seen the number of goals against them total 8. Still, we must now wait to see if that pattern might persist in this next match.

Philadelphia Union

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Philadelphia Union go into this match after a 3-0 MLS win with the defeat of D.C. United in their previous fixture.

In that match, Philadelphia Union had 44% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 6 on target. For Philadelphia Union, the goals were scored by Jakob Glesnes (15'), Danley Jean Jacques (52') and Bruno Damiani (77'). For their opponents, D.C. United got 9 attempts on goal with 5 on target.

A sequence of resolute performances by the Philadelphia Union defensive players has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 3 from their last 6 fixtures overall. During the same period, their own attack force has managed to score 8.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head duels stretching back to 05/03/2022, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with CF Montreal winning 2 of those games, Philadelphia Union 2 and 2 being drawn in regulation time.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 23 overall at an average of 3.83 goals per meeting.

The last league clash between the two was MLS match day 29 on 29/06/2024 which ended up with the score at CF Montreal 4-2 Philadelphia Union.

On that occasion, CF Montreal managed 64% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The scorers were Josef Martínez (36'), Dominic Yankov (89') and Ruan (92').

Philadelphia Union got 8 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Quinn Sullivan (29'), Jesús Bueno (42') and Jack Elliott (56' Own goal) scored.

The referee was Jon Freemon.

🗞️ Team News: CF Montreal

It’s our opinion that Montreal could line up in a 4-2-3-1 formation for this game with Jonathan Sirois, Dawid Bugaj, George Campbell, Joel Waterman, Luca Petrasso, Nathan-Dylan Saliba, Samuel Piette, Fabian Herbers, Caden Clark, Victor Loturi and Prince Osei Owusu.

📋 Team News: Philadelphia Union

We reckon that The U seem likely to make use of a 4-4-2 system using Andre Blake, Francis Westfield, Olwethu Makhanya, Jakob Glesnes, Kai Wagner, Quinn Sullivan, Danley Jean Jacques, Jovan Lukic, Indiana Vassilev, Tai Baribo and Chris Donovan.

💭 Prediction

It’s looking like Philadelphia Union and CF Montreal should both get enough opportunities to score, although it’s hard to separate the two.

Little in this one, and it’s almost too close to call. We therefore think that it’s going to be a very even match with a score draw at the conclusion of the game.

Renata Leite, 23:24 03/05/2025