It's been a wild disappointing Sunday night in the NASL with 2 dramatic finishes in the 2nd leg of the semifinals.
The good news is that Vancouver lost! Come on!, don't say you are not a bit happy because our only Canada rival in NASL just did not make it either. Also, I think they hate us more than we do, specially for the Nutrilite cup 1-6 against Toronto.
The bad news, we lost the chance to go to the finals for a 2nd year in a row. I must say we only play good football the first half in Montreal. Since then, 2nd Half in Montreal Carolina could have won and they even score a legitimate goal that referee called back because it was offside (yes, we have to remember that), and the entire 90min in Cary, NC were mostly dominated by the Railhawks, at least the the ball movement towards the attack. Carolina played good football and never gave up, that is true.
Even though we know we were not deserving qualify to the finals, being eliminated in the 89min by an offside goal hurts deep in the heart. But it can kill you the fact that Montreal scored an "on side" goal in the 92min to pass to the finals and it was called back. Certainly this is like a horror movie, the same movie we saw in the 2nd leg of the Concacaf Champions League Quarterfinals against Santos Laguna, where we were up by 2 goals with 5min left and the Mexican team scored 2 goals to eliminate us.
We can judge ourselves the plays in the following link:
The season is over and we still have one more year in the NASL before take the expected journey to the MLS. I hope we can have some work to expand the number of seats in Saputo stadium and start testing our attendance to the stadium before jumping to the big league. I recall several sold-out games this season, meaning we might be able to seat more than 13,200 fans if we complete the new terraces.
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