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MONTREAL -- The Montreal Impact hope a pair of major signings show their intent to win Major League Soccer championships now and in the future. After inking a second designated player in Argentine midfielder Hernan Bernardello, the club boosted its central defence Friday with the acquisition of Wigan Athletic defender Adrian Lopez of Spain. Neither will be ready to play against Eastern Conference leader Sporting Kansas City on Saturday night, but the Impact are counting on the two 26-year-olds to add skill and experience for the MLS playoff run and the CONCACAF Champions League. You can see the Impact face Kansas City on TSN2 and TSN Mobile TV beginning at 7pm et/4pm pt. "These two players will be key for this year and for the future," said sporting director Nick De Santis. "They both played at the top level in Spain and England and they are very motivated to come to the Impact and to MLS." The Impact (9-5-5) are second in the conference despite a five-game winless run. They are four points behind Kansas City (10-5-6), but hold two games in hand. Sporting has won three in a row and is undefeated in six games, but its last loss was a 2-1 setback to Montreal in Kansas City on June 17. There has been bad blood between the teams this season. Coach Marco Schallibaum was ejected at half time of that game for stepping onto the field. He had also been suspended after a 2-0 loss in Kansas City in March. The Impact will have their first designated player, striker Marco Di Vaio, back in the lineup. His finishing was missed in a 0-0 draw with Dallas last week while he was attending to a family matter in Italy. Kansas City is missing its two central defenders, as Matt Besler is with the U.S. national squad while Aurelien Collin is serving a one-game suspension. "They are two good players, but the others have done good work," said Schallibaum. "They won their last match. "When a player gets a chance to show what he can do hes very motivated. Its a good team and theyre not in first place by chance." Schallibaum said it should take Bernardello and Lopez a week to 10 days of training with the team before they will play in a match. The Impact have been questioned for recruiting older stars from Europe like 37-year-olds Di Vaio and Alessandro Nesta, or 34-year-old Matteo Ferrari. The two newcomers are in the prime of their careers. De Santis said the older players have helped set a high standard and brought credibility to the team, but now the focus is on high quality players who will help in the long term. "To have two 26-years-olds in key positions, in the spine of the team, that can be the future of the team, were extremely proud, happy and excited," he said. It had to boost hopes in the dressing room as well that ownership opened the purse strings to bring in some talent and experience. "Its important that were able to bring players of a certain level and a certain age," said president and owner Joey Saputo. "These are players that can be here a while and can augment the level of the league. "That were able to do it is great. For the longest time, teams like L.A. and New York have brought in great players, so theres no reason we cant do the same." Both players hope to stay in Montreal long term, rather than to bide time before signing with a European club. Bernardellos arrival will likely allow Patrice Bernier to move into a more offensive role, although it may bump another defensive midfielder, Collen Warner, down the depth chart. Two other midfielders, Calum Mallace and Sinisa Ubiparipovic, had earlier been loaned to Minnesota of the NASL. The lanky Lopez allows Schallibaum to give Nesta and Ferrari some rest with a busy schedule in the next three months. De Santis has compared Bernardellos style of play to hard man Gennaro Gattuso, whose fierce tackling was a staple on AC Milan and Italy squads in the 1990s. Bernardello, who played three years with Almaria in Spains top division, plays a defensive midfield position, recovering balls and launching the attack. "He puts a lot of passion and emotion into every game," said De Santis. "He covers a lot of ground. Hes the link between the defence and the offence." Lopez, from Spain, played with Deportivo de La Coruna in La Liga and in the English Premier League with 2013 FA Cup winner Wigan. "I came to MLS to stay in MLS," said Lopez. "Im not thinking about going back to Europe because I think the product in MLS is going to be amazing. "In my point of view, in three years MLS is going to be a top league, so Im looking forward to staying here to be part of that project to become one of the best leagues in the world." Both will need time to find their conditioning and to adapt. Di Vaio joined Montreal midway through last season and struggled in his first month or two. "Its train hard and, when you have to play a match, try your best," added Lopez. "Its always the same, whether its the middle of the season or the start." The Impact needed help in the central defence because Colombian Nelson Rivas bad knee has been slow to heal. He has yet to play this season. To maintain their 11 roster spots for foreign players, Rivas and Maximiliano Rodriguez were placed on injured reserve this week.Sheldrick Redwine Browns Jersey . Tracey comes to the Blue Bombers after spending over a decade with Queens University. Most recently he was the schools assistant football coach. Baker Mayfield Jersey . - Connor McDavid scored 53 seconds into overtime as the Erie Otters came from behind to defeat the visiting Guelph Storm 4-3 on Saturday in Ontario Hockey League action. http://www.footballbrownsnflprostore.com/Youth-Sheldrick-Redwine-Elite-Jersey/ . DAmigo scored twice in regulation and added the shootout winner as the Toronto Marlies edged the San Antonio Rampage 5-4 in American Hockey League action. Jim Brown Jersey . 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Boos rained down from the stands last week as the offense failed to score 20 points for a third consecutive game.Even the faith in quarterback Taysom Hill appears to be wavering as hes thrown more interceptions (4) than touchdowns (2) while completing just 58.6 percent of his passes.Coach Kalani Sitake said Hill will remain the starter this week after the staff considered benching the senior at halftime of the 17-14 UCLA loss. Backup Tanner Mangum is the better pure passer and set BYU freshman records after Hill was injured in 2015.I know everybody looks at one position and likes to blame it on one person, but there are so many different things that go into it with the quarterback and talking about Taysom, Sitake said. The worst thing you can do is panic and make a change on stuff that youre seeing on the field when its not just that one spot. There are a lot of different variables that go into it: protection, routes and the timing. It would have been a premature decision to make that decision then. Im glad we didnt.Detmer echoed those sentiments. The BYU receivers have not played particularly well, failing to run crisp routes, dropping balls and being stymied by press coverage. Running back Jamaal Williams rushed for 162 yards in the season opener against Arizona, but opponents have loaded up against him and hes managed just 86 total yards in the last two games.Still, Hill hasnt looked like the player who threw for 2,938 yards and ran for 1,344 as a sophomore.When you have a guy like Tanner sitting behind you everyone always wants the new next best thing, Detmer said. The grass is always greener on the other side when things arent going exactly right. After watching the film a couple times you understand at times, hes doing all he can do. Theres always going to be every game a couple throws you want back or a couple decisions you want back. But overall its a team effort.The Cougars (1-2) travel to face West Virginia on Saturday and Detmer plans to simplify things with hopes that will allow Hill and the offense to run ssmoother.ddddddddddddBYUs scoring offense (17.0 points per game) ranks No. 119 in the nation and the 212.3 passing yards per game are tied for No. 78.Guys are maybe pressing now to make plays, Detmer said. So they rush in and out of their routes and dont sell it at times. We miss on a protection. Allow a guy to get an edge because were maybe pressing too much to do too much or do it faster in a game. Maybe Im paralyzing (Hill), paralysis by analysis a little bit where thats not open, and now what? Its going back to maybe simplifying things a little bit and running our base stuff that we know guys know and hes comfortable with and then getting better at those things.West Virginia knows the BYU offense has had its issues, so coach Dana Holgorsen said his team is preparing for both Hill and Mangum. He also noted that it typically takes longer to adjust to a new offense than it does to adjust to a new defense.Everyone says they arent scoring a lot of points, well they are having some misfortunes, West Virginia defensive coordinator Tony Gibson said. Tip balls for interceptions, fumbling at the wrong time, whatever it may be, penalty here or there, so theyre not that far off. Theyve played three pretty good teams and obviously have been competitive all the way down to the end.The odd part is that BYU has shined late in games. The offense put together a nine-play, 53-yard drive for a game-winning field goal against Arizona with four seconds remaining. The Cougars drove 75 yards in 13 plays to score a touchdown against Utah with 18 seconds left, but couldnt convert a two-point conversion for the win. They also went 91 yards for a touchdown in nine plays against UCLA with 37 seconds left.I dont know what it is, if we just start letting loose and letting the ball go and just playing ball, receiver Nick Kurtz said. I dont really know why, it just works so well. We practice it a lot. Were just going to try to come out with more fire and less nerves ... just try to let it fly earlier in the game. ' ' '