MONTREAL—The Montreal Impact built a three-goal lead and then barely hung on for a 3-2 victory over Toronto FC in a wild opening game of their MLS Eastern Conference final that was delayed 30 minutes by a groundskeeping error on Tuesday night.
Dominic Oduro, Matteo Mancosu and Ambroise Oyongo put Montreal in front in the opening 53 minutes, but Jozy Altidore and Michael Bradley answered back with goals before a roaring sellout crowd of 61,004 at Olympic Stadium.
While Montreal will take a lead into the second leg of the two-game, total goals series on Nov. 22 at BMO Field, Toronto picked up two all-important away goals that can serve as the tiebreaker.