I think we deserve it. We have had some good results at home and away from home. Tonight we should have won, even though we were two down but we felt we could get something. We said at halftime that 30 of the 45 minutes we played some decent stuff and felt we were in charge. There was just a period of eight to 10 minutes where we lost it and they got both their goals. It took a couple minutes after giving up the second one before we got back in it. |
I think we'd like to add a couple of faces. There are a couple teams making drastic changes, but that I think won't help us at all. We just want to make it tougher on the current players by adding some new ones. So, coming into the new season, people are looking over their shoulders, pushing harder to keep their place. |
I think, as normal, it was a battle royal out there between us and D.C., because it always is. I think the truth of the matter is that we were fortunate to get the win. As far as the football we played we can play far better than we showed tonight. But, as usual, we showed that as far as guts and courage and passion, we have it in abundance. That's what won us the game. |
I thought he was going to run a half marathon after he scored. He took it well and everyone is pleased for him. |
I thought we were exceptional tonight, |
I'd certainly like more of it. He hasn't started for a few weeks. And he's come on tonight and scored a great goal. |
I'd like to think that we don't need extra things to get us going. I'd like to think that we're prepared and ready to go anyway. I don't think it was any extra because of that. |
I've seen him better. He didn't exactly have his party hat on. |
If we had won the game, we don't get points for it. This is a good reminder. It doesn't matter who you play against, you've got to do the right things. You've got to make decisions, pass the ball. If you don't, it doesn't happen. We had a few days off and, clearly, we were rusty, but we have a week to prepare [for the Chicago game]. |
If we take our chances, then it is a different game. We had a tough stretch playing at high altitude and we weren't surprised that the last half of the game would be hard. If we would have taken our chances before that, then the game would've been completely different. |
If we take the lead, they have to come out and it opens the game up. |
In the first half, we were second best on everything. In the second half, we wanted to make sure we at least would stand in the corner and make it hard for them. And that's what happens when you don't give up. |
In the games we have played we have had plenty of opportunities in front of goal and the more you do it, the better you get at it. Had we been scoring 100 goals, we wouldn't have stopped what we have been doing, so just because we haven't been hitting the net as regularly as we would have like, at this stage we aren't going to change anything. |
It feels like a loss. In the first half we should have been out of sight, I thought we were excellent. That's as good a first half as we've played away from home since I've been here. We cut them up at will. The possession was excellent, we created chances and gave them all kinds of problems but we couldn't finish them off. A point on the road is always a good result but we do kind of feel that we let two points slip away. |
It feels like a loss. In the first half, we should have been out of sight, I thought we were excellent. The possession was excellent in the first half, we created chances and gave them all kinds of problems but we couldn't finish them off. That will come though. |