already bruised roster<\/a>. He assured media post-game that Alistair Johnston\u2019s halftime substitution was just precautionary and he would have played in a meaningful match.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was really good to get a lot of guys 90 minutes. Guys like Derek (Cornelius) and Luc (De Fougerolles) haven\u2019t played 90 minutes in a while,\u201d said Marsch. \u201cA lot of guys I thought put good efforts in and looked really sharp.\u201d<\/p>\n
As you build up, the goals will come<\/p>\n
Canada\u2019s goal came off a Stephen Eust\u00e1quio corner kick, which arrowed into a mob in the six-yard box and deflected in off Irish centreback Jake O\u2019Brien in the 23rd minute.<\/p>\n
It was the ninth set piece goal in the last 16 games for Canada, but they couldn\u2019t find one from the run of play. Larin had two chances, but couldn\u2019t convert either. Jonathan David was looking to set up his teammates more than shot, creating a team-best four scoring chances to three shots.<\/p>\n
As a team, Les Rouges had 20 shots to Ireland\u2019s five, but the Irish had more shots on target (3-2), and would have won the game except for a dramatic 82nd minute save from Max Crepeau on Mason Melia from 10 yards out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure I\u2019m going to get a million questions, but I\u2019m going to be positive, guys. I\u2019m not here to take a bunch of negative questions, and if you ask me negative questions, then I\u2019ll just move on to the next one,\u201d Marsh said, unprompted.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just lacked a little bit of quality in the final actions, but I believe that will come. We need to make a few more plays. Just some right decisions. \u2026 We have firepower, I know that, and I know the goals haven\u2019t been coming, and I\u2019ve been saying they\u2019re coming, and I\u2019m going to say it again \u2014\u00a0they\u2019re coming.\u201d<\/p>\n
Canadian standouts<\/p>\n
Crepeau was named Canada\u2019s starter for the tournament on Thursday, and backed up the decision in the stadium where his pro career began. He stopped 60th penalty shot from Troy Parrott, diving to his left to make the save, but the rebound fell to the feet of an onrushing Chiedozie Ogbene, who knifed it over him.<\/p>\n
But it was the other player whose career also started at Saputo who was the player of the night.<\/p>\n
Isma\u00ebl Kon\u00e9 went the full 90 minutes, completing 70 of 76 passes, nine into the final third.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be honest, I unhappy and I got after him after Uzbekistan, because I felt like he was just floating around the pitch way too slow and not intensive enough,\u201d said Marsch. \u201cToday he picked it all up and put together a complete performance. He was winning duels, he\u2019s winning head balls, he\u2019s picking up loose balls with the ball, he\u2019s driving, he\u2019s finding actions<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is what I, my vision from the beginning is of Isma\u00ebl; an intensive player that also has a gift of just moving around with the ball that teams can\u2019t really match plan for. He\u2019s an X factor for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now it starts for real<\/p>\n
This was the final warmup game for Canada, who now travel to Toronto ahead of their June 12 opener against Bosnia at BMO Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Montreal\u2019s Saputo Stadium Friday night, Canada was reminded of an important lesson: One errant moment can undo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27752,17,30586,27749,27297,30584,27750,30585,6599,11434,50,5860,30581,541,30583,30582,21815,27300],"class_list":["post-77080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alistair-johnston","tag-canada","tag-chiedozie-ogbene","tag-cyle-larin","tag-derek-cornelius","tag-evan-buhler","tag-ismael-kone","tag-jamie-mcgrath","tag-jesse-marsch","tag-jonathan-david","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-gazette","tag-nathan-collins","tag-qatar","tag-republic-of-ireland","tag-saputo-stadium","tag-troy-parrott","tag-uzbekistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}