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Columbus Crew SC Hosts Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League Finalist Montreal Impact Tomorrow

Published on June 5, 2015 under Major League Soccer (MLS)
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COLUMBUS - Columbus Crew SC (4-5-4, 16 points) returns home to meet the Montreal Impact (3-4-2, 11 points) at MAPFRE Stadium tomorrow, June 6 at 7:30 p.m. ET. Time Warner Cable SportsChannel is televising the game, with Dwight Burgess, Neil Sika and Ashleigh Ignelzi on the call. Additionally, "Crew SC Matchday" airs on Time Warner Cable SportsChannel at 7:00 p.m. ET, and "Crew SC Post-Match" immediately follows the action. The match is being broadcast with simulcast audio on CD102.5 FM, and Juan Valladares is set to be behind the microphone for La Mega 103.1 FM.

Tomorrow's match is the 10th regular-season meeting all-time between Columbus and Montreal and the first of 2015. Crew SC is 6-2-1 all-time against the Impact, and is a perfect 5-0-0 against Montreal at MAPFRE Stadium. Last season, The Black & Gold went 2-1-0 against Montreal in League play, with the home team winning each contest. This is the Black & Gold's first match against Montreal since the Quebec side was runner-up in the 2014-15 Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League, where the Impact fell to Club America at Olympic Stadium in the final.

Crew SC forward Kei Kamara currently leads Major League Soccer with 10 goals on the year. The Sierra Leone international has recorded seven of his 10 goals at MAPFRE Stadium, and no other player has more tallies in his home venue than Kamara. In addition to leading the League in total goals, Kamara is the only player to record three braces this season. The Crew SC forward's current rate of 0.83 goals per game is second in club history behind Stern John's 0.96 goals per game in 1998. Kamara would tie his previous career-high for goals with his next tally, as he recorded 11 with Sporting Kansas City in 2012.

Black & Gold midfielder Ethan Finlay is tied atop the League lead in assists with seven, alongside Sporting Kansas City's Benny Feilhaber. Finlay's seven assists matches his career-high single-season total, which he set in 2014. When Finlay records an assist, Crew SC has gone an unbeaten 4-0-3. Finlay's assist pace of 0.55 assists per game currently ranks fifth in club history for a single-season.

In Crew SC's previous match against the Philadelphia Union on Wednesday night, midfielder Mohammed Saeid led the club in passing with a 93.4% accuracy rate (57 passes out of 61 completed). Saeid is now second in MLS passing accuracy among all players with 200 or more passes attempted.

Columbus Crew SC vs. Montreal Impact

Saturday, June 6 - 7:30 p.m. ET - MAPFRE Stadium (Columbus, Ohio)

Regional Television: Time Warner Cable SportsChannel

Crew SC Radio: CD102.5 FM (English); La Mega 103.1 (Spanish)

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