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There’s no way the Impact can lose to York9 FC in the Canadian Championship, right?

Most Montreal soccer fans had probably never even heard about the York9 team before the first leg of their Canadian Championship series against the Impact on July 10, which ended in a 2-2 tie in Toronto. The Impact almost lost to their Canadian Premier League opponent, earning the tie when Saphir Taïder scored on a penalty kick in the 92nd minute with only 90 seconds left in stoppage time.

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The teams will meet again in the second leg of the two-game, aggregate-goals series Wednesday at Saputo Stadium (7:30 p.m., TSN 690 Radio), with the winner advancing to the semifinal round. It would be embarrassing, to say the least, for an MLS club to lose to a team from a lower league.

“I think it’s a game that we have to win,” Impact coach Rémi Garde said before Tuesday morning’s training session at Centre Nutrilait. “Nobody would understand that we couldn’t win that game. But saying that, we are going to play a team that plays good football.”