Leading 3-0 in the closing minutes of the meaningless last league game of 2019, Wilmer Cabrera called upon Shamit Shome.
The young Impact midfielder two years previously had replaced Patrice Bernier at the end of his captain’s last-ever game for the Impact.
This time Shome was about to replace another Impact legend, Ignacio Piatti. The change when it came with five minutes of regulation time remaining, was accompanied by a throng of wonder and uncertainty.
Were we seeing the very last of Nacho in an Impact uniform?