Two slumping clubs _ Impact and Orlando _ set to open back to back series
MONTREAL — The Montreal Impact and Orlando City — two clubs hungry for a win — are set to clash in back-to-back games.
The first comes Wednesday night at Saputo Stadium, when the 10th-place Impact (4-11-0) face an Orlando (6-7-1) squad that has lost five league games in a row, although they picked up a 3-0 win over Miami FC in U.S. Open Cup play on June 6. They meet again June 23 in Orlando.
While the Impact have lost five of their last sixth, they see the two-game set as a chance to turn around what has been a miserable campaign and get back into the playoff hunt in Major League Soccer’s Eastern Conference.
“Huge. Incredibly important,” was how defender Daniel Lovitz described it. “If we want to be a playoff contender we have to get results against these types of teams.