Montreal Impact lose captain Jukka Raitala for eight to 12 weeks - TSN.ca

MONTREAL — Injuries are piling up for Montreal, and that's posing a serious challenge for first-year coach Thierry Henry ahead of the Impact's Major League Soccer season opener.

"It would be better if everyone was healthy, if we had a full team," Henry said before practice on Friday."But that's the unpredictability of sport and we need to adapt.The injuries on the back line are most troubling, with centre backs Raitala and Camacho out long term. Meanwhile wingers Okwonkwo and Lappalainen are day-to-day.The 31-year-old was hurt in the fifth minute of Wednesday's 0-0 CONCACAF Champions League draw against Costa Rica's Deportivo Saprissa.

Camacho will miss at least three MLS matches while Raitala will miss seven. Neither player will dress for Montreal's Champions League quarterfinal against C.D. Honduras next month. That leaves Henry with six healthy defenders at his disposal: Rod Fanni, Brault-Guillard, Jorge Corrales, Luis Binks, Joel Waterman and Karifa Yao. Only three of them have any MLS experience."We still have good defenders in the team," said Binks, the former Tottenham Hotspur academy player."It's a big opportunity now for me to cement my place in the team. But that will only come with playing well and training well.

"We have to do our best with what we have. Three years without playoffs, and we haven't added that many players. We have to fight."

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