With the international break over, the club game comes back into focus, and MLS is back in action for its sixth weekend of action.

While it still feels very early in the season, six games in MLS is just under 18 percent of the 34-game season, and results now start to really mean something as the grind of the regular season really begins.

Two of Canada's teams played to thrilling, come-from-behind 3-2 victories, while the other definitely did not do that. We'll focus on Montréal's struggles first this week.

Here's a look at what stuck out this weekend.

Just hold on, we're going home

Does it make sense to use a line from a Toronto rapper in the Montréal blurb? Not really, but some home cooking is much-needed for the Impact after their long, unsuccessful season-opening road trip.

The culmination of that trip was this week in New England, where the hosts walked out to a fairly comfortable 3-0 win. There were a few chances for Montréal to equalize when the game was still 1-0, but after Mamadou Fofana's 2-0 goal, those chances faded away.

The talent gap is obvious in basically every game this team plays, even against a pretty middling Revs side. The way the Impact tried to combat this has been hard man-marking, a clear favourite principle of Marco Donadel, as he's resorted to this in back-to-back seasons now.

After this system worked against the Red Bulls, and then showed some red flags against Orlando, we wrote that they'd probably not be able to do it to that level of success all season, once teams were prepared for it and had tape on how to pull this team apart.

It was clear that Revolution head coach Marko Mitrović had time to study some tape over the break. On Luca Langoni's opener in the sixth minute, right-back Ilay Feingold carried the ball up as Carles Gil dropped back in, received a negative pass, and immediately played a long switch to the left side, where more forward runs continued to confuse the Montréal system, as the rotations and movement confuse who should be marking whom.

This leads to the midfield being in disarray, with Gil receiving the ball at the top of the box, and even when Victor Loturi steps out to him, it falls over to Feingold, who has even more space on the right. He gets a cross into the box, and Luca Langoni scores off the rebound after a nice Thomas Gillier stop.

These forward runs and rotations were what New England did all game, and how they were able to pick apart their opponents on the day.

The spirit of the man

Sebastian Berhalter already had one highlight reel, lung-busting effort in stoppage time against Portland this season. That one came in Vancouver's 4-1 win at Providence Park earlier this season, where he chased down Kristoffer Velde and laid a crunching tackle to stop the Portland counterattack. But, while it's a moment that shows his engine and dedication, the stakes were pretty low at that point in the match.

Well, this week, he made a highlight reel, lung-busting effort in stoppage time, chasing down Felipe Mora to stop the Portland counterattack. Only this time, the score was 2-2, and he got back to his feet to smash home the winning goal just 28 seconds later.

That is what makes Berhalter the man. With Andrés Cubas missing through injury, the USA international has had to take a bit more of the destroyer's role in recent weeks, and he has seemed to embrace it in the big moments.

You really can't find a play that describes the style of the Whitecaps midfielder more, from the hard work, engine and desire to make the tackle to the technical quality to wrap his first-time finish into the bottom corner.

It wasn't a banner performance from the Whitecaps across the 90 minutes, but the spirit of the team – and a banner play by Berhalter – is part of what makes them such an elite team in MLS.

Chaos agents

It is pretty difficult to find any meaningful analysis from a game featuring three red cards, an incomprehensible own goal, a comeback from down 2-0, and everything in between.

Perhaps it's easiest to point out that Toronto have come from behind in the second half in back-to-back matches, and are showing legitimate fight in ways that feel different from the previous iteration of the squad.

But even then, the repeatability of their goals against the Rapids is slim to none. Richie Laryea probably isn't going to score another (debatably?) misplaced cross into the top corner. It's probably unlikely that many other teams are going to somehow score an own goal from nearly the halfway line. It's probably unlikely you're going to have many more corners to swing into the box with the numbers on the field at 10v9.

But it happened, and you won. Sometimes the result is more important than how on earth you managed to get there.

What can actually be said about this game is that Josh Sargent started and went 90 minutes, had the winning goal and an assist, and looked dangerous all game. He got into good spots and found chances, even with Djordje Mihailović absent due to a groin injury.

If you can take one thing from the game of chaos, it's that the number nine is starting to fit in, and a continuation of that will be what keeps Toronto in the playoff spot they currently occupy.