CF Montreal head coach Laurent Courtois has urged his gamers to prioritise their psychological method once they journey to New England Revolution on Wednesday.
Montreal snapped a four-match winless streak in MLS on the weekend with a 2-1 win over Charlotte FC, however they’ve registered back-to-back victories within the league since March.
They sit twelfth within the Japanese Convention however nonetheless have an out of doors probability of creating the playoffs if they’ll string collectively a run of optimistic outcomes.
Courtois didn’t get over-excited by the win over Charlotte and is already how you can enhance to get one other three factors on the board.
“I’m pleased, we’re speaking about issues which are optimistic, however for me, there are all the time each [no matter the result],” Courtois stated.
“It comes right down to the psychological method. The message bought by [against Charlotte], but when we take a look at the main points, we may have conceded once more, after which we’d be speaking about one thing else completely.”
In the meantime, New England are backside of the desk, three factors worse off than their opponents.
They suffered a 3-0 loss to Orlando Metropolis final trip and at the moment are winless in three matches, however assistant coach Pablo Moreira is assured they’ll bounce again.
“All three objectives got up on set items, which is a troublesome one to swallow, after which by the run of play. So, [we’ll] simply construct off of the positives and stay up for the sport Wednesday,” Moreira stated, as quoted within the Blazing Musket.
“It’s extra that mentality after [conceding] and making an attempt to enhance that.”
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— New England Revolution (@NERevolution) September 16, 2024
PLAYERS TO WATCH
New England Revolution – Aljaz Ivacic
Saturday’s 3-0 defeat at Orlando was the twelfth time this season New England have misplaced a daily season match by a number of objectives, probably the most such losses this MLS season.
The 12 multi-goal losses are New England’s most in a single season in membership historical past, and Aljaz Ivacic might be determined to maintain a clear sheet.
CF Montreal – Josef Martinez
Josef Martinez has scored eight profession regular-season objectives towards New England, tied for his most towards any MLS opponent (D.C. United, Orlando).
No participant has scored extra objectives towards the Revs over the past 10 MLS seasons.
MATCH PREDICTION: NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION WIN
New England and Montreal have every received three of the final six conferences within the fixture. The Revs scored 13 objectives of their three wins whereas failing to attain within the three defeats.
The Revolution are winless in three straight regular-season dwelling matches (D2 L1). It has been 4 years since they went 4 straight dwelling league video games with no win (D4 L1 from March-September 2020).
Nevertheless, Montreal are winless in 14 immediately matches in all competitions (D4 L10), together with dropping their final three away from dwelling. Montreal’s solely longer street winless run in all competitions since becoming a member of MLS in 2011 was a 34-match run in 2013-14.
OPTA WIN PROBABILITY
New England Revolution – 52.5%
Draw – 24.3%
CF Montreal – 23.2%
