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...
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Sierra Leone is a very dangerous team with great individual players. After watching them play a very good Spain team and tying 3-3 we did not expect an easy match, but we were hoping we would be able to hang in there defensively and then come away with the win. So, obviously we are very happy with the result.
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I thought we gave the ball away. I thought we stood there and watched them attack our goal. The first principle of defending, once the ball is lost you fight to win it back, and we didn't fight to win it back.
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Most of the things we learned were internally. Who will you count on, also players basically that we had to move around whether it be for not being consistent enough in their performance or the ability to get along with everyone.
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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.
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I don't think he'll score that type of the goal the rest of the year.
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I figure that they're going to play hard, ... that they want to play and the veterans are going to have to play hard if they want to play the last few games of the season.
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They're looking to make an impression that they're better than last year and obviously we need to do the same.
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Everything was positive except for the final result, and that's the only thing that we're down about now.
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Our outside backs have to play quicker. We're getting balls blocked, and that's going to continue until we actually solve the problem.
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Now it's a matter of getting better shooting opportunities. I thought we had a couple of instances where we could've done better. We could've gotten more shots off.
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He wants to go forward, and especially at Spartan Stadium, you were constantly on your heals with those guys running at you.
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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.
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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.
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It's unrealistic to think about catching Colorado if you have to play two of those three games away and you haven't won an away game. Today would've been a nice place for us to start.