{"id":879707,"date":"2026-09-01T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T17:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/879707\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T17:28:09","slug":"cf-montreal-returns-to-telus-canadian-championship-action-against-vancouver-whitecaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/879707\/","title":{"rendered":"CF Montr\u00e9al returns to TELUS Canadian Championship action against Vancouver Whitecaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER, B.C. \u2013\u00a0CF Montr\u00e9al heads to Vancouver and meets the Whitecaps this Wednesday at BC Place at 10 p.m. EDT, in the first leg semifinal of the TELUS Canadian Championship (OneSoccer, RDS, TSN, TSN 690). Philippe Eullaffroy\u2019s squad will be looking to bounce back after Saturday\u2019s loss in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the two teams met outside of MLS competition was in the 2023 Canadian Championship final, when the\u00a0Bleu-blanc-noir\u00a0fell 2-1 to the Whitecaps at BC Place. Since the creation of the Canadian Championship in 2008, Montr\u00e9al holds an overall record of 4-7-6 (18 goals scored, 21 goals conceded) against the Whitecaps, including a 1-5-3 record (8 goals scored, 13 goals conceded) on the road.<\/p>\n<p>CF Montr\u00e9al advanced to the tournament semifinals after eliminating Vancouver FC in the quarterfinals. Montr\u00e9al won the first leg 2-1 on July 8 in Langley before earning another 2-1 victory in the return leg on July 12 at Stade Saputo, advancing 4-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>Should he start Wednesday, goalkeeper S\u00e9bastian Breza would set a new Club record for Canadian Championship starts with his ninth appearance in the starting lineup. He would move ahead of Evan Bush, with whom he is currently tied for first place with eight starts and 720 minutes played. With three clean sheets, he is also tied with Bush and Cl\u00e9ment Diop for the Club record in that category. His six wins already stand as a Club record in the Canadian Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER, B.C. \u2013\u00a0CF Montr\u00e9al heads to Vancouver and meets the Whitecaps this Wednesday at BC Place at 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,53596,55],"class_list":["post-879707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-communiques","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879707","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=879707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}