{"id":950296,"date":"2026-10-29T06:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950296\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:08:10","slug":"abadas-hat-trick-helps-charlotte-beat-montreal-clinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950296\/","title":{"rendered":"Abada&#8217;s hat trick helps Charlotte beat Montreal, clinch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Liel Abada scored a career-high three goals in a 15-minute span and Charlotte FC beat CF Montreal 4-0 on Wednesday night to clinch a berth in the 2026 MLS Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Idan Toklomati had a goal and an assist for Charlotte (14-10-8), which snapped a three-game winless streak. Pep Biel added three assists.<\/p>\n<p>Abada had his first career hat trick and the third in club history, joining Toklomati and Daniel Rios.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s a 15-minute hat trick for Liel Abada! \ud83c\udfa9<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte up 4-0. https:\/\/t.co\/xw9Ke8I0se<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Major League Soccer (@MLS) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2115615550093066331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Montreal (6-19-7) is winless, with four losses, in its last five. Montreal has the fewest points (25) and worst goal differential (minus-30) in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Toklomati opened the scoring in the seventh minute. Allan Saint-Maximin, near the left corner of the penalty box, spun toward the end line to evade a defender and then played a perfectly-placed cross to Toklomati for a header from the center of the area.<\/p>\n<p>Abada subbed on for Rodolfo Aloko in the 65th minute and scored goals in the 67th, 79th and 83rd. The 25-year-old forward has all of his career-high eight goals this season since the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>Kristijan Kahlina had one save for Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>Samsy Keita stopped three shots for Montreal. The 17-year-old made his second consecutive start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Liel Abada scored a career-high three goals in a 15-minute span and Charlotte FC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-950296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950296","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=950296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}