107 ordspråk av John Ellinger
John Ellinger
I thought we gave the ball away. I thought we stood there and watched them attack our goal. The first principle of defending, once the ball is lost you fight to win it back, and we didn't fight to win it back.
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I thought we played well in both halves. Unfortunately we had one mistake in our defensive shape and they put in the rebound, but it worked out in the end. I can't tell you how happy I am for Jason (Kreis) to get that goal.
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I would say Danny is getting more and more comfortable. I thought he played fairly well in both games.
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I'm actually excited, looking forward to getting (Kreis and Cunningham) on the field together at the same time and hopefully having Andy underneath them.
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I'm ready to get the bugger. I can't allow him to have bragging rights because he won't shut up about it. It will be good to see him. Obviously I follow all the guys I had [in the under-17 program], but Freddy was one of the special ones.
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If we get in, we get in. The playoffs are something you don't really want to think about at this point. You just want to get a win.
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If you are an opponent watching our game film, what are you going to do? You're going to higher pressure us and make us try and cough the ball up. So we have to get better at not coughing the ball up under pressure.
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If you start your pressure at the top of the circle, but when they get to that point it becomes live and everybody has to get tight and do their job, and that's not how it happened. There's big room for improvement there.
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It just proves basically how tough it's going to be for roster spots. It's definitely going to be competitive as we move forward.
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It looked like a problem with our shape. We were out of position and allowed two guys to be in front of our net unmarked.
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It seems that when you're at the bottom of the table, things just don't go your way.
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It still leaves a bad taste in your mouth. You want to applaud the effort and change and everything else, but the bottom line is it's still a negative result.
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It was a tough game and was going back and forth. You can look at the stats and the possession could have said 99 to 1 for Sierra Leone, but we weren't going to stop until the final whistle blew. That's what we said we were going to do at halftime. Any mistake they had we were just going to pounce on them.
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It was definitely disappointing to see how they scored. We should have done better at that moment to win the ball and deal with the situation, but other than that we did really well defensively.
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It was so demoralizing. It's that way in any sport; you give up a goal right before halftime, and it demoralizes.
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