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We knew this was a difficult team and they had a good chance to prepare for our team, but we matched their intensity. It is a team concept. If you work hard good things happen.
We're a completely different team emotionally and physically from the start of the season. Guys are starting to believe in my philosophy and each other.
We need to move the ball fast. We can't get caught on the ball on bad spots on the field.
My goal this year was to get ahead of one team in the standings. We're capable of doing it.
He was a stud tonight. He just had an aggressive nature and did everything right.
We totally dominated them. If we had scored on half of our chances, we would won that game handily. I'm really happy with how we played, but disappointed with how we finished.
We're on the right track. I hope we can continue to be competitive. If we don't stay on track, we could get run over.
He's a reliable defender. He's going to work hard for his teammates and he has an intuitiveness of where to be on the field.
He just did what he does best, take people on. It's frightening for any defender to have Gary coming at them.
Lately, he's been outstanding. That's the way we perceived him from the beginning. It's nice to see him get to the level we expected him to be.
Susi has a nose for the goal and he's very skilled with the ball.
My philosophy is that if we can keep a team at five goals or less, we should win that game.
Winning five games in a row, that's ridiculous. What an accomplishment for us to win two straight games against a team like Baltimore and a against a team with a heritage like Baltimore has.
We had (five) minutes of self-destruction. You can't spot the champions five goals.
We had opportunities and we missed them, and the momentum went back the other way and killed us.
We needed to add better players to the roster. Going around the league, he was one of the most dangerous players we came across.
We didn't show up until the fourth quarter. That's when we finally showed up and played. It was absolutely a letdown.
The players talk about it more than I do. But I don't think we're out of it.
We missed five opportunities to score in the first quarter, and momentum shifted and went the other way. We should have scored more in that game.
We had the momentum, but we weren't putting the balls in the goal. I felt with an extra guy out there we would be able to get the game into overtime.
This one I really wanted because they've been around for so many years and they have such a great history in indoor soccer. It's progress. When these guys focus we're one of the best teams in the league.
Somebody should have stepped up to the plate.
Antonio is so good because he's also a threat as an attacking defender.
They've got a few players that are very technical and they surround those guys with speed. They pester you in your third a lot. We have to try to nullify their strengths and capitalize on our opportunities.
They turned away some of our good opportunities and it was tough to recover from that.
A lot of players are playing for positions on next year's team.
There was pushing and a lot of talking but I did not punch him,
There's a lot more stuff that goes on during the game than happened there. I'm an intense player and he's a competitor. It's all part of being competitive, that's all.
It's a tough one to swallow because we played so well at time and capitalized on our opportunities. One goal in the second half doesn't cut it. That was one of the biggest leads we've ever had and we got too defensive.
It was extremely rewarding. I'm really proud of how these guys came back and reacted professionally.
It's a huge opportunity for us. If we play the way we played in Chicago with fresh legs, I don't think it would be a real contest.
It's always nice to see a local boy play professionally in their backyard. There's a lot of support for Dom, and I'm happy to see him get his first win as a professional.
It's not an easy thing. When you have someone with that much talent, who can look out of the corner of his eye and execute the pass and get the right player the ball, it's impressive.
It's an absolute shame. These soccer-knowledgeable fans are hard to come by. It doesn't make sense that a viable, historical team will be moved to a different location.
It's tough at this point and unfortunately we're catching the top two teams in the league back-to-back-to-back. But by now, we can play with any team in this league. If we can create our own luck, we're going to put some teams away big time.
I'm really proud of my guys. They earned it, they played with heart and conviction. They listened. That's important when guys are coming off the field at halftime and listening to the game plan. We shut them out in the second half. That's extremely hard to do.
I just want him to bring his youthful exuberance.
I hoping that he strings together multiple games like that. He's capable of it. We know when he's on, he's unbelievable.
I knew he had the potential, but he was very raw and rough around the edges. He's just going to continue to get better in this league.
I knew I wanted to get Ronnie right away. I felt Ronnie would be one of the quick learners, and we're all happy he's on the all-star team.
I'm happy with his overall performance. On an expansion team it's very valuable to have his kind of experience.
Their keeper was the difference in the game. He stood on his head and did stuff that I haven't seen other keepers do. Even when he was jumping out of the way, the ball seemed to hit him.
