John Ellinger
John Ellinger
John Ellingeris a former American soccer coach of the Under-17 United States men's national soccer team, and former head coach of Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer...
focus stage thinking winning
At this stage we just want to focus on winning a game. We're not even thinking about the playoffs, we just want to win a game.
ball cough coughing game higher opponent pressure watching
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.
becomes everybody improvement point pressure room start tight top
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.
added chart deeper depth group improve overall players size speed team trying
As a group of players I feel that our depth chart is much deeper this season. We went about trying to improve our team speed and size and added overall better players with these additions.
basically definitely move proves tough
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.
ball deal definitely moment win
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.
goal
It was so demoralizing. It's that way in any sport; you give up a goal right before halftime, and it demoralizes.
final game mistake possession stop tough until whistle
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.
good problem
It's a good problem to have up front.
impression last looking obviously year
They're looking to make an impression that they're better than last year and obviously we need to do the same.
difficult good last san team
It's not going to be easy. We know it's going to be a difficult challenge; San Jose was a very good team last year.
anywhere created easy effort goals good possession stop teams until
Effort was good, possession was very good ... we created a lot of chances. (But) we're never going to go anywhere until we stop all the easy goals that go in. We just make it too easy for teams at times.
asked bottom seems table
They did everything we asked them to do. It seems when you're at the bottom of the table things just don't go your way,
asked
They did everything we asked them to do.