They are going to have to be in a position to defend. If we can counterattack quickly it's going to give us more chance to play. |
They have ability. The players have quality. The hard part is putting everybody together. They have a problem doing that. They're obviously putting it together as a team now. |
To be fair, they're not quite at their sharpest, but they're getting there. If they're performing the way they are now at not 100 percent, then they're really going to be turning some heads when they get there, no doubt. |
Tony is a tough and experienced defender, |
We are not going to change what we have done all season. The players we have naturally go forward, and to go against what they do naturally, to knock that out of them, would cause problems. We will keep it tight at the back, but if we have a chance to go forward, we will do that. |
We aren't getting penalties for whatever reason. I thought it was a penalty myself. |
We basically went at them for 60 minutes and thought we would score. But in the final third [of the field] the last ball wasn't quite there. We put them under pressure for the majority of the game, with 11 or 10 players. Sometimes it is not going to happen for you. They defended corners well and we couldn't get that last touch in and that summed up the night. |
We changed the system because we wanted to be a lot more solid and take the pressure off some players. [The Rapids] had fresher legs than we did in the second half. But the first goal was always going to be the decider. |
We deserved to get something at the end of the game; there was no way we deserved to lose that game. I don't think we deserved a draw either. We had some chances; we could have scored four that we could have scored. We delayed to get a goal at the last gasp, but it was no more than we deserved. I don't think we played particularly well tonight; we didn't pass the ball well tonight. We just didn't defend well last week; we played some good stuff last week. We still created a real load of chances. |
We had the chances to win the tie over the two games. In particular, we should have hit the net in Bermuda and that is what cost us in the second leg. Over the two legs I think we showed we were better than them without having our strongest side out there. |
We have no interest in what anyone else does. We need 4 points in two games [to clinch first place] and that is all we are looking at. |
We have nothing to be ashamed of. The effort and the way we tried to do things and the commitment was superb. Until we went one down, we were the team that was really pushing the ball. We were the ones really putting the pressure on. And even when we went to 10 men, we kept going at them. So we can have no complaints. It's one of those nights where it just never happened for us in the final third. |
We need to do our thing. Clearly they have got some players that can hurt us so we need to defend the way we have been defending and give people little room to maneuver. When you are playing against a couple of strikers like Johnson and Wolff, unless you do that, they're going to give you trouble. |
We need to work on keeping the ball more. Physically we are in good shape, and three more weeks will only improve that further. |
We scored a great goal at the end, but it was no more than we deserved. |