{"id":7610,"date":"2025-07-19T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7610\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T08:22:11","slug":"montreal-roses-snap-afc-torontos-5-game-win-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7610\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Roses snap\u00a0AFC Toronto&#8217;s 5-game win streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latifah Abdu and Megane Sauve each scored a goal to lift Montreal Roses FC past AFC Toronto 2-1 in a battle between two top Northern Super League teams Friday in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Abdu, a 23-year-old from Montreal who has one senior international cap with Canada, pounced on a loose ball in the box to give Montreal (6-3-3) a 1-0 lead in the 31st minute.<\/p>\n<p>Roses co-captain Sauve doubled the lead in the 69th with her first in the NSL when she smashed a curling shot from outside the box into the net.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Pickett cut into the lead in the 78th minute, floating a shot from well outside the box over the arms of keeper Anna Karpenko for Toronto (8-4-1) at York Lions Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH |\u00a0Montreal Roses snap\u00a0AFC Toronto&#8217;s 5-game win streak: <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752913331_396_default.jpg\"  alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">Waiting for the World Cup<\/p>\n<p>With the 2026 World Cup now one year away, CBC Sports&#8217; Chris Jones examines it&#8217;s impact and what it will mean to Canada in this video essay.<\/p>\n<p>Second-place Montreal now has 21 points in the NSL standings and trails Toronto by only four with one fewer game played.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides split their previous two meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal defeated Toronto on the road in the first fixture for both franchises April 19 at BMO Field. Toronto then handed Montreal a 2-0 loss at Stade Boreale on May 22.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, Toronto visits Vancouver Rise FC on Thursday and Montreal hosts Calgary Wild FC on July 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latifah Abdu and Megane Sauve each scored a goal to lift Montreal Roses FC past AFC Toronto 2-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-7610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}