St. Louis CITY SC secured a huge 2-0 shutout win over CF Montréal on Saturday night at Stade Saputo. Conrad Wallem opened the scoring early for CITY SC, netting his first goal for the club and first in MLS play, as St. Louis entered halftime up 1-0. In the 55th minute, Marcel Hartel scored his sixth goal of the season to extend CITY’s lead to 2-0. The defense stepped up for St. Louis, recording eight tackles and holding Montréal to zero shots on target throughout the second half. With the shutout, CITY SC earned their sixth clean sheet of the season and second road win of the 2025 campaign. Next Saturday, St. Louis CITY SC travels to California to face San Jose Earthquakes at 9:30 p.m. CT.
Postgame Notes
- Conrad Wallem scored his first career goal for St. Louis CITY SC and first in MLS play
- Wallem has now contributed to four goals in 2025 (one goal, three assists)
- Marcel Hartel earned his sixth goal of the MLS season and seventh in all competitions
- João Klauss tallied his first assist of the season
- Sangbin Jeong registered his second assist of the year
- Seth Antwi made his MLS debut
- Tonight’s win marked CITY SC’s second ever victory over a Canadian MLS team
- Roman Bürki earned his fourth clean sheet of the year, bringing CITY SC’s total to six shutouts in 2025.
September 13, 2025 – Stade Saputo (Montréal, QC)
Goal-Scoring Plays
STL: Conrad Wallem, 11th minute – Conrad Wallem scored with a left footed shot from the center of the box to the bottom left corner.
STL: Marcel Hartel (João Klauss, Sangbin Jeong), 55th minute – Marcel Hartel scored with a right footed shot from the center of the box to the lower right zone.
Scoring Summary
STL: Conrad Wallem, 11’
STL: Marcel Hartel (João Klauss, Sangbin Jeong), 55’
Misconduct Summary
STL: Chris Durkin (caution), 18’
MTL: Samuel Piette (caution), 51’
MTL: Victor Loturi (caution), 85’
Lineups
MTL: GK Jonathan Sirois; D Luca Petrasso, D Brandan Craig, D Fernando Alvarez, (Efrain Morales, 56’) D Dawid Bugaj (Bode Hildalgo, 86’); M Samuel Piette © (Fabian Herbers, 56’) M Matty Longstaff, M Victor Loturi; F Iván Jaime (Olger Escobar, 73’), F Prince Owusu, F Dante Sealy (Hennadii Synchuk, 56’)
Substitutes not used: GK Thomas Gillier, D Aleksandr Guboglo, M Bryce Duke, F Sunusi Ibrahim
TOTAL SHOTS: 17; SHOTS ON GOAL: 3; FOULS: 11; OFFSIDES: 2; CORNER KICKS: 8; SAVES: 2
STL: GK Roman Bürki ©; D Conrad Wallem, D Fallou Fall, D Henry Kessler, D Devin Padelford; M Chris Durkin (Alfredo Morales, 61’), M Eduard Löwen (Seth Antwi, 85’); M Sangbin Jeong (Mykhi Joyner, 61’), M Marcel Hartel, M Célio Pompeu (Brendan McSorley, 73’); F João Klauss
Substitutes not used: GK Ben Lundt, D Kyle Hiebert, D Tomas Totland, D Timo Baumgartl, M Tomáš Ostrák
TOTAL SHOTS: 13; SHOTS ON GOAL: 4; FOULS: 12; OFFSIDES: 2; CORNER KICKS: 0; SAVES: 2
Referee: Ismir Pekmic
Assistant Referees: Gianni Facchini, Ben Pilgrim, Renzo Villaneuva
VAR: Jair Marrufo
AVAR: Mike Kampmeinert
Venue: Stade Saputo
Postgame Audio: Recording
Postgame Video: Footage (Passcode: 42t+ULCz)
Interim Head Coach David Critchley
On tonight’s win:
First of all, super, super happy with the results that we’ve got and as you’ve just mentioned, to go on the road and get ourselves a win with a clean sheet, I was so happy for the entire team. I was so happy for the entire club in these moments. So, I think that the reason for it is I saw a massive amount of determination from the guys today against the ball. Everyone was really bought in. Everyone defended so aggressively, all the way from [João] Klauss and [Marcel Hartel] chasing down players, to big blocks and saves by Roman [Bürki], [Henry Kessler], Fallou [Fall] and those guys. So, it was a collective defensive performance tonight. We’ll learn a lot from this as a team, and hopefully we will have a few more coming as we close out the season.
On Conrad Wallem’s play tonight:
He was great. We had a couple of adjustments, we talked to him, but within the game, he found himself in a good, high position a lot today. It was just the way we felt like that’s where space was going to be. So, the goal is always massive when you work on something tactically, and it pays off, absolutely. But then he had another chance as well to almost get a second. I think he’s put it just over, if I remember, just over or just wide. So, put himself in good positions today, and then also executed his actions. I was very happy with his individual performance.
On what it means to him to see Brendan McSorley, Seth Antwi, and Mykhi Joyner be a part of his first road win and clean sheet:
I think the first one with the clean sheet is I’m so happy with it, because as much as I’ve sat here and we’ve talked about those attacking and scoring goals and creating chances, I do care about the defensive gap side of the game a lot, and we’ve seen growth lately. We even go back a few games with some decisions that maybe didn’t go our way, or we kind of shot our own foot with some mistakes. We limited them well today. So, to have a clean sheet, even though I’m an attacking of minded coach, I do pride myself in these moments. So, I was so happy for the entire team to have three guys from CITY2 to finish the game. I thought it was also fantastic. Because, as much as we want to win the game, and it’s a balance of that, as much as we want three points and win the game, giving these young guys and giving these guys in CITY2 opportunities to be in the first team, I think shows culture within the club. It shows an opportunity to grow, and that we will give anyone a chance if we feel they are ready.
Defender Conrad Wallem
On the importance of tonight’s win:
First of all, I think it’s great for team morale. We’ve been grinding, training good every week, staying in it, even though we have been getting hard results and hard punches in the face every weekend, we have stayed in it all together. And today we showed as a team what we really can do and how we can fight together and win on the road. You have to win games like this. You have to win as a team. And today we really showed that.
On getting a clean sheet tonight:
We have a goal for this, this month, to get the clean sheet and win on the road has been two of the points so we can take all those finally. So, it means a lot for sure, it’s a confidence boost for all of us, keeping a clean sheet today. Again, two goals and finally, getting a win as well.
On what tonight’s win meant to David Critchley and the organization:
Yeah, he was happy. But for all of us, the whole team, the whole club, St. Louis, we were with Carolyn [Kindle] in there as well, and you can see the look in the faces of everyone. It meant a lot. We have struggled a lot this year and it’s been hard. It’s been very hard. But I feel like now we’ve been talking a lot the last month or so about what we need to do to show everyone that we are serious about, not even this season, but also next season. What we need to find our identity, and what we should look like. So, I feel like now we are starting to look more and more as a team. We had some decisions against us, or missed opportunities in some games, but I feel like now, we’re for sure, the arrow is pointing the right way and now we just need to finish season and build on this and not fall back.
Midfielder Marcel Hartel
On the importance of tonight’s win:
I mean, it’s very important for the whole team, for the staff, for the club that we see with the plan we play out from the back, that we create so that we can score goals and now that we that we see we are good in the defense, we were not conceding goals today. And we have to keep building on that and looking for the next game, because for me, it is still an opportunity. The next, next five games, we have something to work on, to grow something. And so, for me, the season is not done.
On João Klauss’ assist on his goal:
Amazing, the back heel that he saw me in this situation so fast, and I’m behind him, good touch. The back heel was amazing; it was 80% his goal.
On holding the lead tonight:
We had a lot of good conversations in the team with the staff about that, especially about conceding goals after, I think 70 minutes that we want to get much, much better in that. And today worked out with the goal [that Montréal scored and had called back], maybe whether it was offside or not offside, and then we concede a goal, then we are not talking about that. But so, we have to still to improve, especially in the last 20 minutes to also not let them get the opportunity to score.
