Toronto winger Jacob Shaffelburg, with one goal and three assists in three appearances, was named top young player. Breza finished with a 3-0-0 record, including two shutouts, and did not concede a goal in his last 243 minutes of play. Toronto's Ifunanyachi Achara fired the ball back in but Perruzza's shot struck the woodwork.īreza, the hero of Montreal's penalty shootout win over Forge FC in the semifinal, was awarded the 2021 George Gross Memorial Trophy as tournament MVP. Toronto had a chance to pull even in the 90th minute but Jordan Perruzza hit the goalpost after goalkeeper Sebastian Breza got a foot to a Toronto ball sent into the penalty box before fellow substitute Nick DeLeon got to it. "We just lost focus on one play and we paid a price of the championship," he said. Toronto coach Javier Perez viewed the contest through rose-coloured glasses. "I'm happy because we played the way we used to play, offensively and defensively," he said. "We should have scored earlier."īut Nancy took pleasure in seeing his team dominate at both ends of the field. "This is the story of our season," the coach said. After missing many much simpler chances, they went ahead on a goal that came with a high degree of difficulty. Montreal coach Wilfried Nancy told his players at halftime a goal would come if they kept playing that way. Quioto, with six shots including four on target, provided more offence than the entire TFC team and could have scored a hat trick had it not been for Westberg.
Montreal outshot Toronto 23-4 (9-0 in shots on target), had a 10-1 edge in corners and 57 per cent possession. Until the final seconds, Sunday's game was one-way traffic.
Montreal hoisted the Voyageurs Cup, as it did after a penalty shootout win over TFC in 2019, while earning a berth in the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League, US$75,000 and bragging rights.ĭue to the pandemic, the 2020 tournament was eventually reduced to a one-off between Toronto and Forge FC that has yet to be scheduled. Quioto had tormented the TFC defence all day. Montreal dominated play but had to wait until Romell Quioto's 72nd-minute goal to dispatch Toronto 1-0 Sunday and defend its Canadian Championship title.Īfter bossing the game at Saputo Stadium, Montreal finally broke the deadlock when the Honduran forward, put behind the defence by a looping high ball from Rudy Camacho from inside his own half, chipped goalkeeper Quentin Westberg on Montreal's 21st shot of the afternoon.
For Toronto FC, there was only more pain. MONTREAL - CF Montreal ends the season with a trophy.
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