HFX Wanderers versus CF Montréal

Samuel Salter, Doctor of Divinity. Source.

It's the Canadian Championship quarter-finals. HFX Wanderers play host to Club de Foot Montréal. These two clubs have never met before, not even when CF Montréal were called Impact. However, the Nova Scotia Clippers did play Montreal Supra thirty years ago in the old Canadian Soccer League.

Nova Scotia Clippers versus Montreal Supra, 1991:

1991/6/9        Nova Scotia Clippers 1 - 1 Montreal Supra

1991/7/3        Montreal Supra 3 - 2 Nova Scotia Clippers

1991/8/25      Nova Scotia Clippers 2 - 1 Montreal Supra

1991/9/4        Montreal Supra 1 - 0 Nova Scotia Clippers

CF Montréal have quite the ugly black home strip and a blah grey away strip.

Wanderers Jems Geffrard, Pierre Lamothe, Alessandro Riggi, Jérémy Gagnon-Laparé, Samuel Salter and Stefan Karajovanovic all spent time in the Montreal Impact system.

Montréal have an Icelander, Róbert Orri Thorkelsson, who used to play for Breiðablik.

HFX Wanderers are seven games without a loss.

Marquis Downs in Saskatoon is being converted from horseracing to soccer in preparation for CPL membership. The horse people are not happy about it.

[Wanderers 1 - 3 Montreal. Cory Bent scored for Halifax.]

The other quarter-finals:

Forge 2 - 1 Valour (September 15)

Cavalry [0 - 1] Pacific (today)

Toronto FC [4 - 0] York United (today)

Concacaf League, Round of 16, first leg (yesterday):

Forge 0 - 0 Independiente