MONTREAL – Didier Drogba, Johan Venegas and Dilly Duka scored as the 10-man Montreal Impact ended the New England Revolution’s six-game winning run with a 3-0 victory in a driving rainstorm on Saturday night.
The sixth place Impact (10-11-6) remain undefeated in four games since Mauro Biello replaced Frank Klopas as head coach.
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New England (13-10-7), which moved into first place in the Eastern Conference with a win over the New York Red Bulls on Wednesday, saw an eight-game unbeaten streak come to a close in a
game in which it rarely threatened Impact goalie Evan Bush.
Montreal went down a man in the 72nd minute when Marco Donadel, already on a yellow card, slid into defender Andrew Farrell.
But only four minutes later, Drogba slipped a pass to Duka on the left side to pad the Montreal lead. It was the first MLS assist for Drogba, who has four goals in as many games.
A third straight sellout crowd of 20,801 didn’t seem to mind getting soaked as they rose up each time the former Chelsea star touched the ball.
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