Heading into the Amway Canadian Championship semi-final away leg with a 2-1 advantage, you couldn’t blame a youthful Vancouver Whitecaps side to embody tension and apprehension in holding on to their slight advantage over the Montreal Impact.
And yet, once the tension was broken, the Impact were able to apply pressure to a point where the Whitecaps could not recover, proving to be victorious on the night 4-2, and 5-4 on aggregate, to face the winner of Ottawa Fury and Toronto FC.
The Whitecaps started with a formation similar in personnel, if not formation, when compared to last week’s ACC match-up:
By moving back to the 4-2-3-1, VFC2 defender Sem de Wit fell to the bench in favor of Tim Parker, while Kyle Greig’s move up front put Alphonso Davies in with the reserves.