CS St-Laurent held Toronto FC in check for 50 minutes before seeing victory gradually slip through their fingers and losing 3-0 in the first leg of the Canadian Championship on Wednesday at the Claude-Robillard Center.
These three goals obtained on the road give a serious option in the semi-final to the MLS team, which will return home for the return match on May 21, at BMO Field.
More than 6,000 fans were present to encourage the semi-professional club which plays in Ligue1 Quebec and which won the championship of its circuit in 2023.
Matthew Longstaff opened the scoring shortly after the break. He accepted Cassius Mailula’s back pass and fired a ball into the top of the net that goalkeeper Konstantinos Maniatis touched with his fingertips.
The second goal came nine minutes later on a sequence that drew boos from the crowd. Deandre Kerr doubled the lead seconds after what appeared to be an obvious handball from one of his teammates in the penalty area at the other end of the field as St-Laurent attacked.
Federico Bernardeschi delivered a massive blow with a third success in the 76th minute.
St-Laurent surprised the Halifax Wanderers in the preliminary round of the Canadian Championship and became only the second Ligue1 club in Canada to reach the quarter-finals.
2024-05-09 00:06:00
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