Piatti scored twice in the win over Orlando but will also have to dish out some cash.
midfielder Ignacio Piatti has fined an undisclosed amount for embellishment by Major League Soccer.
The league judged that Piatti embellished a fall when contacted in the penalty area in first-half stoppage time of Montreal’s 3-1 win at Orlando on Saturday.Both teams were given a warning for violating the league’s mass confrontation policy when players swarmed the field in a testy exchange at the end of the game.
Impact defender Zakaria Diallo was given a red card during the altercation for putting his hands on the head/neck area of Orlando striker Dom Dwyer. Dwyer, for his part, was fined an undisclosed amount for "instigating and escalating a mass confrontation in the 90-plus minute of the match."
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