It is only Wednesday and the New York Red Bulls don't play Montreal Impact until Sunday, so today's knock in training is little more than tomorrow's check-up with the physiotherapy team.

Still, Matteo Mancosu is Montreal's red-hot striker of the moment. He scored twice (and assisted once) in IMFC's opening win of the 2016 MLS playoffs: a surprisingly emphatic 4-2 win on the road against D.C. United. And it is his quite special goal that sends L'Impact to play RBNY at Red Bull Arena carrying a 1-0 lead in the two-game series.

Reseau des Sports reporter Patrick Friolet advises that Mancosu cut short his Wednesday training session with IMFC, appearing to experience some sort of trouble with his right leg.

Les images de Matteo Mancosu qui quitte la séance d'entraînement #IMFC #RDS pic.twitter.com/P70SYCeoaU — Patrick Friolet (@PFrioletRDS) November 2, 2016

A hamstring strain, perhaps. Maybe nothing more than a little tightness and an abundance of caution.

Montreal does have Didier Drogba working his way back to fitness: not a bad stand-in at all, if Mancosu's knock proves to be serious enough to keep him off the field at the weekend. But Drogba's own availability for Sunday is still in question - so keep an eye on the training reports out of Montreal this week.