CF Montreal vs Vancouver Whitecaps - prediction, team news, lineups

The Vancouver Whitecaps tin acceptable an MLS regular-season nine grounds for points connected Saturday with a triumph implicit rivals CF Montreal astatine Saputo Stadium.

Last season’s MLS Cup runners-up volition decorativeness the regular play successful archetypal retired West, hammering the Seattle Sounders 5-1 past week, portion Montreal volition extremity the run successful dormant past retired East, drafting New York City FC 1-1 the past clip out.

Match preview

Montreal volition extremity different uneventful MLS run this weekend, struggling to marque overmuch advancement successful 2026.

Philippe Eullaffroy’s men are connected a seven-match winless tally crossed each competitions, collecting conscionable 2 points domestically implicit that stretch.

They could extremity the twelvemonth connected a insignificant affirmative note, arsenic a triumph against Vancouver would surpass their 2025 points full (28).

A constituent connected Saturday, meanwhile, would besides warrant they bash not decorativeness with the worst grounds successful the league, arsenic they are presently 3 points supra Sporting Kansas City overall, with a acold amended extremity differential than the latter.

Le CFM squad person mislaid 4 of their past 5 home affairs astatine Saputo Stadium, portion failing to people six times astatine location successful the contention this season.

On Saturday, they tin widen their competitory location unbeaten tally versus the Caps to 8 matches, upsetting them astatine Saputo Stadium 2-1 successful the Canadian Championship semi-finals earlier this year.

Vancouver person delivered different stellar regular season, and are looking similar the favourites to instrumentality to the MLS Cup last and hopefully for them assistance the trophy this clip around.

Heading into Decision Day, Jesper Sorensen’s men person conscionable 2 less points than they had astatine the extremity of the 2025 regular season, portion they tin besides acceptable a nine grounds for regular-season wins with different 1 connected Saturday.

They caput into this play successful good form, winning their past 2 league encounters by a combined borderline of 9-2.

It is simply a bully happening they person secured location tract vantage successful the West arsenic they person dropped points successful 4 of their past 5 league contests distant from home, and this play could suffer consecutive roadworthy games successful this contention for the archetypal clip each year.

The Whitecaps pb the league regarding expected goals successful this contention (70.3) portion creating much large chances than anyone truthful acold (124).

Eight times domestically successful 2026, this squad person netted a extremity oregon less connected the road, though they person ne'er mislaid distant from location successful MLS this twelvemonth erstwhile scoring first.

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Team News

We bash not expect to spot Prince Owusu, Jalen Neal, Bode Hidalgo oregon Brayan Ceballos diagnostic for Montreal owed to lower-body injuries, portion Thomas Gillier is doubtful owed to a backmost issue.

Daniel Rios scored successful wounded clip past Saturday, enabling his squad to gain a constituent astatine Yankee Stadium.

Meanwhile, ankle problems volition apt support Emmanuel Sabbi and Andres Cubas connected the Vancouver sidelines, portion Belal Halbouni has a genu injury, Kenji Cabrera has a sore ft and Jeevan Badwal is doubtful due to the fact that of a hamstring strain.

Brian White has 3 goals successful his past 2 league fixtures, netting a brace against the Sounders, with Ryan Gauld, Matias Laborda and Aleksa Cvetkovic besides scoring past Sunday.

CF Montreal imaginable starting lineup:

Keita; Bugaj, Morales, Vera, Radojevic; Piette, Pereira; Synchuk, Longstaff, Carmona; Sanchez

Vancouver Whitecaps imaginable starting lineup:

Takaoka; Ocampo, Laborda, Veselinovic, Priso; Cvetkovic, Larraz; Sabaly, Muller, Gauld; White

We say: CF Montreal 1-4 Vancouver Whitecaps

The Caps are firing connected each cylinders and showing nary signs of slowing down, and portion they are already locked into archetypal successful the West, we inactive expect them to overpower Montreal, who person seldom looked comfy astatine the backmost this season.

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