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...
bit came hard legs lost pressured second
They came out and pressured hard in the first half, and then kind of lost their legs a little bit in the second half, and we had two new groups.
bury matter pick pressure spot
Gomez, Jaime, Freddy, they can play some ball. If you don't put pressure on them, they're going to pick their spot and they're going to bury it. It really doesn't matter who was in goal.
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.
bottom coming effort except fighting final line negative played positive pressure result spirit tonight
The effort was better tonight, but the bottom line was still a negative result. We played a 3-4-3 tonight to keep the pressure coming down the front, everything was positive except the final result and everyone is down about the final result. We had more of a fighting spirit tonight and played more physically.
ball bit fighting physical played pressure spirit
The fighting spirit was better. Pressure on the ball was better, and we played a bit more physical tonight, which was good.
games guys reserve reward senior time
We try to reward those guys who play well in reserve games with time in the senior games.
best felt loves player
We felt that he was the best player in the draft. He loves to pass.
certainly crosses deal players
We certainly have to deal with their crosses and the players they get on the end of the crosses.
bad ball create game kinds midfield seemed situations turned
The story of the game was how many times we turned the ball over in the midfield and create bad situations for ourselves. You just can't keep making those kinds of mistakes, giveaways, and we seemed to do that a lot.
except final positive
Everything was positive except for the final result, and that's the only thing that we're down about now.
andy attacking clint coming evolved felt forward space
Originally, I think we thought that Clint was going to come in and play like a forward and Andy was going to play the attacking mid. But kind of how it evolved was Clint felt more comfortable coming back and sometimes they were in the same space and it kind of complicated things at times.
attacking ball brian forward offensive robert scarlett second space stressed supposed yards
Brian Dunseth was supposed to play forward a little bit, like an attacking midfielder. But Robert Scarlett and Adolfo Gregorio were supposed to be more offensive in the first half. A lot of times, the ball would come to them and after a second touch, they would still have space after 30 yards with the ball. We stressed that at halftime.
broke half moments played second
Even in the first half we had moments when we played well, but in the second half, we broke down, we broke down and broke down again. It's just unacceptable.