CF Montréal v. New York City FC 2026 MLS Regular Season - Matchday 10 Date: Saturday, April 25, 2026 | Kickoff: 2:40pm ET Location: Stade Saputo | Montréal, Québec, Canada Television: Apple TV Radio (English/Spanish): New York City FC App | Tune In App newyorkcityfc.com/radio
NEW YORK CITY FC HEAD COACH PASCAL JANSEN
On Forward Agustín Ojeda’s development as a player and person... “The man and the player, yeah, that’s a good way of putting it because he is maturing in a bigger sense. Obviously when he came to New York, he was still a kid, a young boy. He’s married now, you can see he’s enjoying life, he’s maturing. And that’s also something you can see in his game because when we started last season, you could see a lot of good things, a lot of potential, but low outcome. That’ssomething we’ve been dealing with since we started working together, and you can see the growth. Hopefully he can continue like he started this season.”
On New York City FC’s mindset heading into the next match... “We’re confident going into this game because we’re coming off some strong performances in several areas. We know what it is that we need to do better in these coming games. So there’s an opportunity for us to show that we can be better and will be better against Montreal. That’s the attitude and the mindset we have going into the next game.”
NEW YORK CITY FC FORWARD AGUSTÍN OJEDA
Sobre cómo se siente con su temporada hasta ahora... “En lo individual, contento de poder ayudar al equipo desde un lado donde capaz que el año pasado no tuve lo que estoy teniendo ahora, que es llegada al gol, obviamente haciendo asistencias también y teniendo un poco más de participación. Después, en lo grupal, un poco bajón por los partidos que venimos teniendo. Creo que en los últimos tres partidos que jugamos nos merecíamos ganar. Se ve dentro de la cancha que siempre el primer tiempo dominamos, todo el primer tiempo, y creo que eso nos deja un poco tristes después de que el resultado sea negativo. Pero bueno, no queda otra que seguir intentando, seguir entrenando en la semana para poder aportar y mañana poder también conseguir una victoria, que es lo más importante.”
On how he’s feeling about his season so far... “Individually, I’m happy to be able to help the team in a way that maybe last year I didn’t have, which is getting into goal-scoring positions, making assists, and having more involvement. As a group, though, we’re a bit down because of the results we’ve been having. I think in the last three matches we deserved to win. On the field, you can see we dominate the first half, and that leaves us a bit disappointed when the result ends up being negative. But we have to keep trying, keep training during the week to contribute, and tomorrow try to get a win, which is the most important thing.”
Sobre qué necesita el equipo para conseguir un resultado positivo... “Sí, obviamente todos los partidos tratamos de que el resultado sea positivo. Siempre tratamos de ser protagonistas dentro de la cancha, de poder empezar bien los primeros diez, quince minutos que son importantes para poder acoplarnos al partido y llevarlo a un punto que esté a nuestro favor. Y bueno, hablando del partido de mañana, es importante porque venimos de un partido que lo teníamos ganable, pero se nos escapó al final. Creo que es importante mantener la cabeza, poder llevar el partido a nuestro favor y cambiar ese chip de que, si faltan pocos minutos y vamos ganando, poder jugar a favor nuestro para llevarnos la victoria. Creo que venimos haciendo buenos partidos y mañana es un punto clave para mejorar desde ese lado.”
On what needs to change to get a positive result... “Obviously every match we try to make the result positive. We always try to be protagonists on the field, to start strong in the first 10 or 15 minutes, which are important to settle into the game and bring it to a point that favors us. Talking about tomorrow’s match, it’s important because we’re coming from a game that we could have won but it slipped away at the end. It’s important to stay mentally strong, to manage the game in our favor, and change that mindset so that if there are only a few minutes left and we’re winning, we can play in our favor and take the victory. I think we’ve been playing well, and tomorrow is a key moment to improve in that area.”
