The CF Montreal Gazette
Squad21 Jun 2027
Elliot Panicco keeps CF Montreal in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Dylan Teves says CF Montreal went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Dagur Dan Þórhallsson in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at CF Montreal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Samuel Piette falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The terraces21 Jun 2027
CF Montreal supporters have found a favourite in Tomás Avilés
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Tomás Avilés has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Nothing got past Samuel Piette
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match19 Jun 2027
Sunusi Ibrahim sends CF Montreal past Atlanta United FC
It finished 1‑0, and it was Sunusi Ibrahim’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to CF Montreal.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Nobody could get near Kwadwo Opoku
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Sunusi Ibrahim was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.06. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Player ratings Tomás Avilés was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Noah Streit
- Market CF Montreal add cover with Sebastián Muñoz