Impact Wins in California

Zakaria Diallo and Victor Cabrera, two players who endured a busy last half hour, celebrate after victory at Avaya Stadium.Montreal Impact last night recorded a first-ever victory in the sunshine state, winning an MLS opener for the third time in club-history.

As so often before for the Montrealers, Ignacio Piatti proved the catalyst, dragging his team back into the game with a typical individual strike after Magnus Eriksson had given the home side an 11th minute lead.

Piatti took a short corner from Taider in the 29th minute, spun past Espinoza rather too easily, trolled the bye-line, made himself an angle and smashed the ball past compatriot Daniel Vega, making his MLS debut in the Quakes’…