This Saturday, when CF Montreal plays host to the New York Red Bulls, a pair of teams that aren't performing up to their previous season's standards will square off against one another.
Le CFM has already lost six games this season after losing 1-0 to DC United at home this past weekend, while New York fought back to draw 1-1 with Houston Dynamo, their second straight draw.
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Coach Hernan Losada is under increasing pressure to put Montreal back on track because they now don't appear to be as strong as they were a year ago. It has failed to score in three straight games, which is exactly how it started the 2023 season, and recently, their lack of focus early in the second half versus DC proved costly.
They have struggled to produce quality thus far, scoring the second-fewest goals in the league (three), while going six games without scoring, which is already one more than their whole regular season in 2022.
Since one of their players received a suspension for making racist remarks during their match with the San Jose Earthquakes, the whole New York Red Bulls organisation has faced difficult times and intense scrutiny.
It was also unfavourable to see little over half of Red Bull Arena full last Saturday against Dynamo, with many fans leaving due to the aforementioned event, as that is not the kind of PR that Gerhard Struber or the club would have desired.
Six times in their eight games this season, Struber's team has given up the opening goal, yet six of their eight points so far have come from a losing position.
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