Montreal 2, Columbus 1

First half_1, Montreal, Lappalainen, 4, 24th minute; 2, Columbus, Zardes, 9, 45th.

Second half_3, Montreal, Krkic, 2 (penalty kick), 74th.

Goalies_Montreal, Clement Diop, James Pantemis; Columbus, Andrew Tarbell, Matt Lampson.

Yellow Cards_Afful, Columbus, 25th; Raitala, Montreal, 42nd; Corrales, Montreal, 52nd; Binks, Montreal, 54th.

Referee_Victor Rivas. Assistant Referees_Peter Balciunas, C.J. Morgante, Fotis Bazakos. 4th Official_Lukasz Szpala.

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Lineups

Montreal_Clement Diop; Luis Binks, Zachary Brault Guillard, Jorge Luis Corrales, Rod Fanni, Jukka Raitala; Lassi Lappalainen (Maximiliano Urruti, 61st), Samuel Piette, Amar Sejdic, Victor Wanyama; Bojan Krkic (Shamit Shome, 85th).

Columbus_Andrew Tarbell; Harrison Afful, Jonathan Mensah, Milton Valenzuela (Hector Jimenez, 69th), Josh Williams; Artur, Luis Diaz (Derrick Etienne, 78th), Youness Mokhtar (Emmanuel Boateng, 67th), Aidan Morris (Fanendo Adi, 79th), Pedro Santos; Gyasi Zardes.