Sun and soccer, fun and football at Stade Saputo on Saturday, as the Impact at last returned to winning ways.
The almost 16,000 crowd was treated to a virtuoso performance by the maestro that is Nacho Piatti. Perhaps his finest performance in bleu/blanc/noir, the Argentinian dismantled what up to then had been one of the meanest defences in MLS, setting up three goals and helping himself to another.
It didn’t set out like that would be the case. Andrew Farrell and his New England rearguard colleagues seemed to have Piatti’s measure. Little came off for the Montreal number 10, until the stroke of half-time when he set Jackson-Hamel, restored to the starting line-up, racing towards goal.