From New York Red Bulls
Head Coach Sandro Schwarz
On team performance during the stretch…
Yeah, for sure. I'm positive because I see the whole roster, how they prepare for the next game, how they train on the field. So, I'm very happy to be here with the whole team, the whole staff to work every day, to be very close together. For sure at this moment, we don't think about the last two games. So, the only feeling is now that we lost this game today. We are very disappointed but when we wake up tomorrow, hopefully, we will analyze the game seriously. Then we will know that this week was okay, was good with these two games. But now more emotion about this, about this game, which we lost.
On substitutions…
Cam Harper, exactly, yellow card and he had some problems with his hamstring, and this was the logic for us to change Carmona then on the right side. Emil was sick the last days after the road game in DC and this was of course the logic to start with two strikers and lose more than on the left side. And he tried in 20-25 minutes to support us, Emil, and this was the reason that he didn't start to lecture.
On takeaways…
Today was not the best performance but we were also able to create chances to score but to not get these three points today. So but for sure, we have to prepare now. Seriously. We have 10 day’s time until the next game, home game Charlotte. I think it's Wednesday and then next Saturday. Then Saturday in two weeks is the Orlando home game. So, we have two home games now, but the way is good. What I said 14 games, 23 points, the first break is now with 10 days without the game. But we want more for sure, we want more. And we must improve a lot. But this is normal. The mentality, the behavior, how we want to play is very quick and very well. I can repeat my words. We are disappointed that we lose the derby game. For us to have this feeling now to not go out with nine points, that can happen, heads up. I said this correctly in the locker room, so the heads go down. We have to come back stronger. And in the next opportunity we have to wait for the next few pages. This is not too good. But after a losing game, we have to wait for the next game, and we will come back.
New York Red Bulls Midfielder Daniel Edelman
On takeaways…
I mean with our standard, the way we've been playing and the way that the team set off this year; nine points was the expectation. I think with these three opponents it's unfortunate we were cut short, but we still have to realize that we put in all the work in training and focusing in on how we can perform our best against these opponents. We did a pretty good job and now it's how can we make up for it by getting back.
On the week overall…
Definitely disappointed. But we don't want to take away the fact that we got six out of nine points. It's a good week for us. It's not great. We wanted to take all nine but now we look back at this game and we learned from it. We know we need to do better. I think it speaks for itself. We have chances we need to put away and then we just need to be more compact and allow if they're going to move the ball side to side. That's fine. Not threatening. It's just a matter of fact if they penetrate to the middle. We just need to take our break right now and then get ready for Charlotte. That's the next goal to get three points there.
