Mar 29 Impact End Training Camp With 2-0 Win Over WFU

The Montreal Impact ended training camp in North Carolina with a 2-0 victory over Wake Forest University at Smith Park, in Greensboro. 

The Impact opened the score at the 31st minute. Tony Donatelli passed the ball off to Impact rookie forward Reda Agourram who beat a defender before scoring on the WFU ‘keeper. Impact forward Roberto Brown, who replaced Agourram at the 59th minute, scored the insurance goal at the 84th minute.

Romanian goalkeeper Andrei Badescu, who made his first start of camp, got the shutout  while stopping a penalty shot at the 72nd minute, in the process.

“We are happy to finish camp with a win and to be returning to Montreal with confidence. It was important for everyone to end the camp on a positive note,” declared head coach Marc Dos Santos.

“We faced one of the best university teams in the United States so we knew we were going to face a good opposition,” explained Dos Santos. “We didn’t take advantage of our opportunities at the start of the game and Wake Forest started believing in themselves and they became dangerous in the second half. But we then took control back in the last 20 minutes of the match.”

This game was supposed to be played at the WakeMed Complex , however due to water accumulations on fields following heavy rain last night, the game was played at the Demon Deacon’s training complex,.

“The conditions were not the best because we were forced to play on a synthetic field. But this is what we will have in Austin,” noted Dos Santos. “And the players had given a lot less than forty-eight hours earlier against the RailHawks. We demanded considerable efforts from our players, including Hicham (Aaboubou), who played all 180 minutes of the two games.”

The Impact concluded camp with a record of three wins (2-1 versus UQAM/McGill, 5-1 versus Freamunde and 2-0 versus Wake Forest), two losses (2-1 versus Celta de Vigo and 1-0 versus Rochester) and three draws (1-1 versus Boavista, 1-1 versus Charleston and 1-1 versus Carolina).

The team will be fly to Austin, April 9th, for its first season game, April 11th, against the Aztex.

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