Follow the Montreal Impact and what you get is a lot of déjà vu.

It's not often that the Montreal Impact lose at home so when they do it’s always with a sense of heaviness, but Saturday’s 3-0 loss to the Chicago Fire was a whole other level of bad. It felt like a cataclysm.

Though the Montreal Impact were content with gaining a point against NYCF on Wednesday, given the balance of play, there will be a little bit of concern with their lack of offensive production in their last two outings.

Saturday's win over Columbus concluded a difficult stretch of five games for the Montreal Impact, who are looking good and will only get better with Didier Drogba, Patrice Bernier and Marco Donadel set to return.

There’s been some flashes of talent and plenty of endeavour, but it’s going to take some time yet for Lucas Ontivero to get acclimated to MLS and to get used to simply playing games on a regular basis.

It’s not to say that without Didier Drogba that the Montreal Impact are a bad team. But how far the Impact will go this year in MLS will depend on how far Drogba is able to take them.

If there’s one item missing from Canadian goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau’s resume that he desperately wants to add, it’s a first career start with the Montreal Impact in Major League Soccer.