I am glad the guys showed class and spunk in coming back. Say a prayer that it is enough tomorrow. |
I could rant and rave about a lot of things. I could rant and rave about the man in the middle. I could rant and rave about the unsportsmanlike behavior of (Glen) for most of the game. I could certainly rant and rave about the schedule which forced us to play Wednesday night and again on Friday and on a rainy, knee deep field. There's all sorts of physiological reasons, but the bottom line is we didn't play well enough early enough in order to go and get that first goal. |
I could rant and rave about a lot of things. I could rant and rave about the man in the middle. I could rant and rave about the unsportsmanlike behavior of No. 26 for most of the game. I could certainly rant and rave about the schedule which forced us to play Wednesday night and again on Friday and on a rainy, knee deep field. |
I don't [think] -- for another five or 10 years, we're not at that point in the league -- where the home field will make that much of a difference. You should just go and play your game. If the (home) crowd has more energy, [visitors] should go and use that as well. |
I don't know who in this room had their stuff together at 21. There are going to be lesser days. That's what the coaching staff, Curt and his veteran teammates are here for. It's a support system. |
I feel we have the wherewithal to go into any stadium and get a result. We not only have to play well, but we have to battle well. |
I like our depth this season. There are some guys who didn't even get off the bench (against FC Dallas) who I could see challenging for a starting spot in June. We got a half-dozen quality guys out of the draft. |
I thought it was a good excursion to Germany. I think we got a lot of things done both on the field and on field. As far as the all of us are concerned, I think we are ready to go tomorrow. |
I thought we came out attacking and shutting them down, trying not to give them the confidence that they would have to be looking for on the road. |
I've been in America for 50 years. The mother tongue is in German, but I trust I speak English better than I speak German, although I've kept up the German pretty well. |
Just his physical presence (6-foot-5, 210) scares the you-know-what out of you. |
No one else has this specific kind of (artificial) turf. You have to up your level of concentration, because you are not going to get used to it in 90 minutes. We concentrated and strung some passes together and did well with it. |
The better team doesn't always win. We attacked and we created more opportunities. The winners were a little more effective where it matters. |
The first half they certainly were the aggressor, the dominant side. They created opportunities for themselves off the run of play and especially off restarts. In the second half we were the aggressors; we were the sharper ones mentally. It [was] just a matter of playing good soccer: sometimes a short passing combination, sometimes switching the point of attack, sometimes going through the middle, sometimes going wide. It was nice to see. |
The goal that Gomez got, that's the first time anybody's got a goal on us over the run of play in the last four games. |