1/2 finale contre Syracuse

[Bxl Boy]

Ici, postez toutes les infos sur ce match

On va déjà essayer d'avoir l'horaire

A la fin du match contre Rochester, ils ont dit sur Fox Sports World qu'ils seraient de retour la semaine prochaine pour le match contre Syracuse, dimanche à 19h00
A confirmer

Mais oui, faites nous ça dimanche soir, c'est tellement mieux le soir !!!

[Bxl Boy]

Ca se précise puisque Vancouver a annoncé son match de dimanche prochain à 22h00 HE
Et Fox en a un de prévu pour 19h00
Donc, soit ils changent leur programmation, soit ils donnent Montréal et on joue à 19h00

[Christian]

Je préfère moi aussi les dimanches à 19H au lieu de 16H. J'ai l'impression de moins perdre ma journée pour un match qui ne dure en fait que 2H.

[Bxl Boy]

Syracuse déforcé à Montréal ?
Voilà en tout cas une déclaration de leur entraîneur après la victoire à Richmond :

"I'd like to get Rochester because of the limitation of taking players to Montreal ," Calloway said. "We've got four immigration issues and Rochester/Syracuse would probably be the best semifinal this league has ever seen with the two big crowds in a one-hour proximity."

[fli]

Le match à Syracuse a lieu le vendredi 10 septembre, 19h30 et le match à Montréal est à 16h le dimanche 12 septembre.

[Christian]

Le match à Syracuse a lieu le vendredi 10 septembre, 19h30 et le match à Montréal est à 16h le dimanche 12 septembre.

Sur le site a-league.com le match du 12/9 est a 19h. Qui dit vrai?

[François]

Chose certaine, il semble que le match soit au P&C stadium. Jamais facile de jouer sur de l'Astro turf...mais ce n'est que 4 heures de voiture...

[Bxl Boy]

Selon les horaires de l'Impact, le match sera finalement à 16h00

probablement alors en différé à 19h00 sur Fox ?
dommage qu'ils ne donnent pas le match aller plutôt...

[Daniel]

Ouache, c'est tellement mieux en soirée.

[François]

Le match sera présenté en direct sur Fox Sports world Canada à 16h00.
Mais au risque de me répéter, c'est beaucoup mieux au stade.

[fafane]

Il y a un truc que je ne comprends pas.Vendredi et dimanche l'IMPACT joue pour aller en finale et aucunes radios diffusent ces matchs.
Il y a quelque chose qui ne tourne pas tres rond!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[François]

Il y a un truc que je ne comprends pas.Vendredi et dimanche l'IMPACT joue pour aller en finale et aucunes radios diffusent ces matchs.
Il y a quelque chose qui ne tourne pas tres rond!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Je sais, je ne sais pas ce que fait CKAC mais ils pourraient très bien présenter ce match.

[fafane]

j'ai envoyé un mail à CKAC,pour leur demander s'il faisait quelque chose pour ces 2 matchs importants pour l'IMPACT

[Corbin]

Les deux matchs de la fin de semaine seront diffusés à CKAC, selon le communiqué de l'Impact.

Malheureusement, ce ne sera pas possible pour RDS de diffuser la rencontre de dimanche, même si le vice-président à la programmation, François Messier, le souhaitait fermement.

Il y a tout simplement trop d'événements sportifs en même temps, dimanche. US OPEN de tennis, l'Omnium Canadien Bell au golf, les Alouettes en après-midi, la course de Champ Car qui est présentée en différé tard en soirée... Le réseau Info-Sports arrive en octobre, ce qui réglera ce problème de conflits d'horaires puisque le nouveau réseau pourra présenter un événement en parralèle à RDS. D'ici là, par contre, c'est souvent un casse-tête.

Personnellement, j'aurais certainement su faire de la place dans la grille-horaire!! Mais comme c'est l'argent qui contrôle la business...

[MorgluM]

Au fait, le nouveau réseau ça va être disponible sur le câble "normal" ou seulement digital?

[Corbin]

Sur le numérique seulement...

Illico, Bell Express VU, etc...

RIS devrait entrer en ondes le 21 octobre. Date prévue, pas date promise.

[MorgluM]

logique, mais dommage. merci

[fafane]

J'ai recu un mail de CKAC pour me confirmer que les 2 matchs sont bien retransmis.
Tres bonne nouvelle

[François]

Dogs brace for Impact
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
By Nolan Weidner
Staff writer
The Syracuse Salty Dogs, sore and banged up from Sunday's marathon playoff victory over Richmond, resumed practice on Tuesday in preparation for their next challenge.

That would be a two-match series against the Montreal Impact in the A-League's Eastern Conference final. At stake is a one-game championship match against the winner of the league's Western Conference, either Seattle or Vancouver.

Syracuse is making its first playoff appearance since joining the A-League in 2003. Montreal is making its eighth playoff appearance in 11 seasons in the league.



The Salty Dogs had a light workout Tuesday after being given Labor Day off to recover from a weekend trip to Richmond, Va., and Sunday's 120-minute overtime thriller that ended in a 5-4 penalty-kick shootout victory for Syracuse.

Players on Tuesday said they had regained their focus and come down from the euphoria of winning their first playoff encounter.

"I think everyone realizes the task we have ahead of us," said Tim O'Neill. "No matter how great that last victory was, we've still got more games to win."

The Salty Dogs have been the only team that Montreal, the Eastern Conference regular-season champion at 17-6-5, hasn't been able to solve this year. The Dogs, who finished third in the conference at 15-8-5, went 2-0-1 against the Impact.

Nobody in the Syracuse camp is reading too much into that.

"They're going to be a tougher team," Dogs defenseman Ryan Hall said. "They're going to come out with something to prove. We are the only team they haven't beaten in the league. I know they're rivals with Rochester, but we know some of the players on the Montreal team and they're ready, they're fired up to play us."

The two Syracuse victories over the Impact came in the defining week of the season for the Salty Dogs. After reversing a 1-7-1 slide with a pair of victories over Richmond and Charleston, the team went to Montreal with only 14 players and handed the Impact its first home loss of the season. Two nights later, the Dogs defeated the Impact again, this time in Syracuse.

"It's the playoffs now," defenseman Frankie Sanfilippo said. "It's a whole different story."

Salty Dogs coach Laurie Calloway said Montreal's league-leading defense allows the Impact to sit back more than most teams and pick its spots in which to counterattack. The Impact, with a veteran back line in front of 6-foot-6 goalkeeper Greg Sutton, has allowed just 15 goals in 28 regular-season matches and two playoff games. No other team is close to that. Syracuse and Richmond were next-best in the Eastern Conference, with 29 regular-season goals allowed. Minnesota was best in the West, with 23.

"We know they'll sit (back)," Calloway said. "They're the best counter-attacking team in the league."



Dogs feeling better

While there were a number of walking wounded around the team's training facility on Jones Road in Baldwinsville on Tuesday, no one has been ruled out of the lineup yet.

Midfielder/defenseman Kupono Low was scheduled to have an injured ankle X-rayed, and forward Machel Millwood was having an injured groin tested. Rene Rivas and Lars Lyssand, both sat out Tuesday after receiving stitches following a mid-air collision Sunday night. Midfielder Chris Dore said a bone bruise suffered Sunday night was still sore, but he was able to kick the ball. Defenseman Jason Perry, who came out of Sunday's game with cramps, was OK.



Let's get physical

To a man, the Salty Dogs said that the Friday and Sunday playoff games against Richmond were far more physical than any of the regular-season matches.

"You play 28 games in the regular season. To have it come down to one or two games, everyone just leaves it on the line," Ryan Hall said. "It's physical from start to finish.

Hall said the playoffs also have been more fun than the regular season.

"This is the best part of soccer. Just letting everything hang out and not holding back. Hitting guys and getting hit. This is the best part of the year, by far.



Back on Astroturf

After playing Sunday's game against Richmond on the Field Turf at Cortland State, because the Syracuse SkyChiefs had a home baseball game that evening, the Salty Dogs will return to the Astroturf carpet at P&C Stadium for Friday's home leg of the Montreal series.

Calloway said his players would work out on the turf today and Thursday to try and regain their feel for the faster surface.

"Playing on Astroturf is going to take more out of both teams," he said.



Impact duo busy

Two Montreal players, defender Gabriel Gervais and midfielder Sandro Grande, have been called up to the Canadian national team for a World Cup qualifying match in Costa Rica today. Both are expected to rejoin the Impact on Thursday.

© 2004 The Post-Standard. Used with permission.

[Christian]

Et si jamais l'Impact se rendait en finale je ne pense pas que RDS présenterait la partie car selon l'horaire que j'ai il y a du Baseball des Expos à Philadelphie de prévu à RDS le 18 septembre à 19h00....


Si j'ai tort Corbin SVP me corriger.

[Corbin]

J'ose espérer que pour un match de championnat impliquant une équipe montréalaise, RDS serait assez intelligent pour oublier de faire une partie de baseball ne voulant rien dire. J'ose espérer... Mais tsé, on est sûr de rien dans ce bas-monde...

Chose certaine, mes patrons de Sports 30 m'ont déjà annoncé que si l'Impact battait Syracuse, on ferait les choses de belle façon dans la semaine précédent la finale. Reportage lundi, reportage mercredi, reportage vendredi, et match samedi. Couverture complète quoi.

[Alqueb]

Et si jamais l'Impact se rendait en finale je ne pense pas que RDS présenterait la partie car selon l'horaire que j'ai il y a du Baseball des Expos à Philadelphie de prévu à RDS le 18 septembre à 19h00....

Mon hypothèse:
Il passeront le match en reprise après Sport 30 qui sera consacré à la victoire de l'Impact.

[François]

Dogs dig a hole
Saturday, September 11, 2004
By Nolan Weidner
Staff writer
Syracuse has been a come-from-behind team all through its second A-League season. But the Salty Dogs have yet to face a challenge like the one that awaits Sunday in Montreal.

The Montreal Impact got a pair of second-half goals to defeat the Salty Dogs 2-0 on Friday night in the first leg of their two-game Eastern Conference playoff series at P&C Stadium. That gives the Impact, the league's best defensive team, a huge advantage heading into Sunday's second leg in Montreal.

"We did our job," Impact coach Nick DeSantis said of his team's third straight playoff game shutout. "It's a great team effort. We kept our heads."

Now all the Impact has to do Sunday to win the aggregate-goal series is not lose by two or more goals. Syracuse will have to score two more than Montreal just to send the series into overtime.

"It's just disappointing," Syracuse head coach Laurie Calloway said of a match that saw two Salty Dogs get sent off with red cards.

Midfielders Temoc Suarez and Rene Rivas both had to leave the game after earning their second yellow cards. That means those two veterans also will miss Sunday's second game in Montreal.

"I'd like to see the 22 players on the field decide games," Calloway said.

The Salty Dogs were forced to play a man down just four

minutes into the second half when Suarez received his second yellow card.

Suarez was carded the second time for a tackle on Montreal midfielder Ze Roberto, a player Calloway and the rest of the Dogs felt should have received a red card for his first-half kick into the head of Syracuse goalkeeper Byron Foss, who was sliding on the turf to make a save.

"I'm extremely disappointed," Suarez said of the second yellow card, which carries an automatic ejection. "The ref even told me he didn't know I had a (first) yellow. That's a game-changer. Especially in a big game like this."

Montreal got its first goal 20 minutes later on a play resulting from a defensive mixup.

Impact forward Freddy Commodore raced downfield under a high kick that bounced near Salty Dogs defender Jason Perry and Foss. As the ball came down, Perry apparently thought Foss had it and let the ball go. Commodore, meanwhile, raced in and chipped the ball over Foss and into the Syracuse net from about 18 yards out.

Two minutes earlier, Syracuse forward Mauro Carabajal had nearly scored on a similar play when he got his foot on a ball that was bouncing between Montreal goalkeeper Greg Sutton and defender Nevio Pizzolitto. Carabajal's kick popped over both Impact players, but it was just two feet wide of the goal.

Montreal scored again in the 72nd minute, just two minutes after its first tally, when midfielder Mauro Biello blasted home a rebound of a shot by Eduardo Sebrango.

Despite playing a man short, Syracuse pressed the attack throughout the final 20 minutes. But the Salty Dogs just couldn't get anything past Sutton.

Syracuse's Rivas was sent off the field in stoppage time, after the regulation 90 minutes was up, when he earned a second yellow card.

"I'm really frustrated," Rivas said following the match.

Now the Impact takes what basically is a 2-0 halftime lead back to Claude-Robillard Stadium, where Montreal has pitched nine shutouts in 13 appearances.

"We like playing at home," said Sutton, this week named the A-League's goalkeeper of the year for a second straight season. "This is a big win for us."

"We know it's not over," Impact defender Gabriel Gervais said. "We have a lot of respect for Syracuse. They work very hard."

DeSantis said the Impact players have to make sure not to get too comfortable with their advantage.

"All season we've done well defensively, but it's a total team effort," he said. "We've got to make sure we don't give them an inch."

Syracuse defender Lars Lyssand said the Dogs let Montreal control too much of the action.

"They possessed the ball better than us tonight," said Lyssand, who was playing with six stitches above his right eye from a collision in Sunday's match against Richmond. "We just couldn't get into our rhythm. When you don't have the ball, you get more tired."

The Salty Dogs will be without a number of players on Sunday.

In addition to Rivas and Suarez, who must sit out a mandatory one-match suspension because of the red cards, forwards Attila Vendegh, Mauro Carabajal and Csaba Kerekes won't be able to travel into Canada because of visa limitations.

"We'll just pick up and try to get the job done up there," Calloway said.

Note: Two former Syracuse University players were in the lineups for Syracuse and Montreal on Friday night.

For the Impact, all-league defender Gabriel Gervais started in back. Gervais played soccer for the Orange from 1997-99. As a senior, Gervais was a first-team All-Big East and first-team All-New York Region.

Salty Dogs defenseman Ryan Hall, who did not start Friday's game but came on in the second half, played at SU from 1999-2002. Hall lettered four years for the Orange while splitting time between midfield and defense. Monteal 2, Syracuse 0 Montreal 02- 2 Syracuse 00- 0 Scoring: Commodore (Mont.) 70th minute, Biello (Mont.) 73rd, from Sebrango.

Saves: Foss (Syr.) 5, Sutton (Mont.) 3; Shots: Montreal 11, Syracuse 8; Fouls: Syracuse 19, Montreal 12; Offside: Montreal 8, Syracuse 2; Corner kicks: Syracuse 7, Montreal 3; Cautions: Suarez (Syr.) 25th minute, Ze Roberto (Mont.) 42nd, Suarez (Syr.) 49th- ejection, Bailey (Mont.) 51st, Rivas (Syr.) 78th, Rivas (Syr.) 90th-ejection; Attendance: 6,345.

© 2004 The Post-Standard. Used with permission.

[Bxl Boy]

Encore plus bizarre que Vendegh ait pas joué hier, il pouvait se donner à fond sans risque d'être fatigué
Ca fera une floppée d'absents quand même
Mais bon, l'autre fois aussi, ils avaient presque personne sur le banc et sont venus mettre deux buts ici
Mais bon, la malchance de Vincello l'a quitté depuis lors j'espère !

[Invité]

Salut c fafane le parisien.A mon avis vous etes tous au stade et vous avez bien raison moi j'ecoute le match à la radio et je pense que l'on peut dire ,alors qui doit rester 20 minutes,que l'IMPACT est en finale.