You could see it coming. Particularly when Dallas got back to 2-3 with 5 mins left on the clock.
The visitors’ introduction at half-time of Czech striker Zdenek Ondrasek seemed to shake up the components of a game in which Lassi Lappalainen had taken advantage of two inexcusable Dallas errors to ease his side into a comfortable lead.
Despite Ondrasek’s influence and the positive second-half response by the visitors, the game still looked done and dusted and the result merely academic on 56 mins, when Okwonkwo, enduring a frustrating evening until then, latched onto Taider’s exquisite cross to extend Montreal’s lead to three.