Canada Scoreless Draw Against Tunisia After Two Hour Lighting Delay

By Daniel Feuerstein | Toronto, ON | March 31st, 2026

Canada’s Men’s National Team was getting ready to start its final match of this international window to face Tunisia at BMO Stadium, before many people come to visit their country for the FIFA World Cup this summer. A very tough opponent from the African Confederation came to give Canada a hard game, as both sides battled hard to get a strong result on the day. After a long two-hour lightning delay that forced the game to start late, they finally played the match, and both sides ended it with a scoreless draw.

Game Recap

Once the opening whistle blew, both sides were battling it out, and Canada looked to play on the front foot to get a goal early. Tunisia held them off and waited for their turn to make a counter, forcing Canada to defend or catch them on the counter and convert the chance to quiet the crowd. There was a chance in the 36th minute when Tunisia caught Canada napping and went on the attack, creating a three-on-none against Maxime Crepeau. Hustling down as fast as he could, Liam Miller as he came to the rescue to help his goalkeeper, and at the last moment, when the shot was taken, Miller did a two-footed slide and blocked the shot from entering the front post along the far side.

One player everyone was looking forward to and getting his first start for Canada’s Men’s National Team was Marcelo Flores. The Tigres UANL attacking midfielder showed hustle, flair, and heart every time he had the ball. While he didn’t score in the match, he was proving to be a dangerous player for Canada. After making the one-time switch from Mexico to the Maple Leaf, Flores shone on the pitch at BMO Field. Even when he lost the ball, he fought hard to regain it and did so. While it would be a long shot for him to make the roster for the World Cup, at least he is part of the future for Canada’s next cycle.

Unfortunately, Ralph Priso suffered a hamstring injury during a run back attempt to play defense. He slid down to knock the ball away from the Tunisian attacker, but once the play was over, he quickly raised his hand and stayed down, as he knew his night was done in the 25th minute, and was helped off the pitch. The hope is that his injury isn’t that bad and he can be ready for this summer’s World Cup. And now for Jesse Marsch, the hard part will be constructing his roster for this summer’s World Cup, and he is definitely going to make some difficult decisions with some easy ones. One of those decisions will be who he will appoint as the starting goalkeeper for Team Canada.

“The game, especially the first half, was back and forth, right? We allowed it to get a little too open. My message at halftime was, like, understand exactly what the opponent’s trying to do and make sure they can’t do it. And, in the second half, we cleaned up so much, and then we didn’t let them out on the counter, and then we had much more control of the match. Big credit to the crowd for sticking around. Spirited crowd, I thought, the energy right from the beginning, the pace of the game was fantastic. I thought our guys pushed every bit of it. A lot of good performances in the whole game,

I sat there feeling like I love this team. They’re fun, they’re dynamic, they’re aggressive, they go after it. We make mistakes sometimes. But, you know, you see, like the play with Lee Miller, and you see a bunch of different plays where guys are really willing to sacrifice themselves to do whatever to help the team be successful. It’s a pleasure to be their coach. We’ve got some tough decisions coming up over the next eight weeks, but I really like our team. I really like our chances, and we continue to, I think, give everything we have every time we’re together,” said Head Coach Jesse Marsch

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