There's been a lot of pressure on Danny to be successful immediately and I think that's been unfair to him. It's created pressure and I think unrealistic expectations that he feels he's failed to live up to. I think if everyone just leaves him alone, I think he'll be fine. |
We are very excited about the addition of Tim Ward. He is a very good young player with a bright future ahead of him and he can play a number of different positions. |
We don't want to push him too quickly too early. With a player like Duncan, you need to be careful because he is the type of guy that gives you everything he has. We have to keep the reins on him. |
We have seven guys out injured. That makes it tough. |
We need to improve on our concentration. We made a stride forward in the second half and proved that we can play good soccer. We should have been leading at halftime. We have to become mentally stronger. |
We played much better in the first half. I thought Chad's goal was a good one off the free kick. We should have scored a couple more. I thought Chad Marshall was very good. Can't say the same about everyone that played in the second half, giving up soft goals. |
We played with a lot of grit and determination. And we played smarter than we have before. |
We should have scored more. Their keeper came up big a couple of times, but we had a few chances that we needed to finish on. |
We talked about doing this two weeks ago. It has nothing to do with the last game. Neither he nor Kyle Martino were as effective as they needed to be, but our expectations for him are still very high. |
We wanted to continue doing the same things we were doing. We knew they were going to come up with a little more pressure so we wanted to try to get the ball out to the right. We got the ball to (Kyle) Martino but he was ineffective and Jacob (Thomas) also sort of disappeared. |
We've got to get him the ball in the box. He hasn't had a lot of opportunities in the box yet and so as we become better and as we become more in sync as a team, that will improve. |
You need a bit of luck, too. The mood and confidence in the team are right. No-one should view us as a source of easy points. |