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Montreal faces one of its toughest road tests of the season without one of its most effective offensive weapons.Didier Drogba did not make the trip with the Impact to Utah for Saturdays match against Real Salt Lake. It will mark the second straight game he has been sidelined with a thigh injury. Drogba has been a big threat up top in 2016 for Montreal with five goals and five assists.Even without their star striker, the Impact will still have plenty of players who can test Reals defense. Chief among them is midfielder Ignacio Piatti. The midfielder scored his 10th goal in MLS play this season on a game-winning penalty kick in the 54th minute of a 3-2 victory over the New England Revolution last week.Piatti has the second-most goals in MLS this season, trailing only New York City FCs David Villa in the MLS Golden Boot standings.Salt Lake has its own dangerous playmakers to counter Montreal. Juan Manuel Martinez has scored four goals in his last six games and combined with fellow forwards Yura Movsisyan and Joao Plata for 17 goals and nine assists this season.The scoreboard could get a workout. Real and Montreal are two of three MLS clubs this season with three players who have at least five goals.RSL is one of six MLS clubs still unbeaten at home. If Salt Lake can claim three points against the Impact, veteran goalkeeper Nick Rimando will move into a first-place tie with Kevin Hartman for career MLS victories (180).Neither team has won or forced a draw on the road in the series. The all-time series is level at two wins each, with Real prevailing at home in 2012 and 2014.Jason Dickinson Jersey . Detroit and Boston are deadlocked, 1-1, and Tigers manager Jim Leyland could be forgiven if he was caught rationalizing instead of dissecting how his club could blow a 5-1 lead late in Game 2. Blake Comeau Jersey . "I wrote 36 on my sheet at the beginning of the game," the Cincinnati coach said, referring the yard line the ball would need to be snapped from. http://www.thedallasstarshockey.com/dino-ciccarelli-hockey-jersey/ .J. -- Josh Cribbs was in the Pro Bowl in February and out of a job six months later. Martin Hanzal Stars Jersey . -- Team after team passed on Andre Ellington in the draft. Brian Bellows Jersey . The mixed zone is not a place to make friends.Rafael Nadal returns to the clay courts of Barcelona on Wednesday to play Marcel Granollers.The Spaniard is the top seed at his home tournament and you can watch his first match live on Sky Sports 1 HD at 12.30pm.Nadal is fresh off a title at the Monte Carlo Masters and heads into this weeks Barcelona event seeking back-to-back clay courts championships in the build-up to the French Open. Highlights as Nadal beat Gael Monfils in Monte Carlo final His third-round opponent, Granollers, is competing in his hometown but, as the world No 50, has been handed the toughest possible opening ddraw.ddddddddddddNadal has won all three of their career meetings to date, with one coming on clay in Rome four years ago.One to watch Rafael Nadal (left) and Kei Nishikori pose with the trophy Japans Kei Nishikori is the defending champion in Barcelona and opens his campaign against Thiemo de Bakker.It will be their second career meeting (Nishikori won the first earlier this year) and is likely to provide the Japanese champion with a routine first challenge. But his prowess on the red dirt, having won the competition last year, will send a warning to the rest of the field.Surprise in store? Alexander Zverev is always an exciting watch The unseeded Alexander Zverev will fancy his chances of progressing past world No 35 Thomaz Bellucci.Zverev, the 18-year-old from Germany, is rated as the sports top teenage prospect and has won both of his previous matches against Brazils Bellucci.Watch the Barcelona Open on Wednesday live on Sky Sports 1 HD at 12.30pm.Also See:ATP scheduleTennis on SkyLatest scoresGet a NOW TV pass ' ' '