Mathieu Choiniere chose tonight to emphatically announce his coming as a Montreal Impact player. Ok, so it was only a pre-season friendly, but his confident display upon replacing Piatti the talisman, left anyone watching in no uncertain terms that he intends to be more than a fringe player in 2019.
It wasn’t only his magnificent 91stminute strike, a fierce volley from 25 yards that Banks, Yachin and Buffon in goal altogether, wouldn’t have stopped, but in the way he gave Leonardo Jara, a player who featured for Boca Juniors in the recent Libertadores Cup Final, twisted blood, before setting up Maxi Urruti for Montreal’s second goal.