Welcome to your match thread for tonight's meeting between Orlando City (2-3-5, 11 points) and Montreal Impact (4-3-4, 16 points). This is the first of three scheduled meetings in 2016 between the clubs, with the Lions traveling to Canada on Sept. 7 and the Impact returning to Central Florida on Oct. 2.
Orlando and Montreal also met three times in 2015, splitting the series, 1-1-1. The first match-up came in Montreal’s Olympic Stadium with many players away on international duty in a 2-2 draw on March 14. Despite falling behind 2-0 on early goals from Ignacio Piatti (pen.