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...
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.
except final positive
Everything was positive except for the final result, and that's the only thing that we're down about now.
definitely match pride team themselves work
They said they didn't play 'United soccer,' ... They pride themselves on their work ethic. They're definitely a hard-working team and we'll have to match that.
bad ball created game midfield ourselves situations turn
Story of the game was how many times can we turn the ball over in the midfield and created bad situations for ourselves defensively.
couple gotten matter shooting shots
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.
good itself talent team win work
D.C. is a very good team that prides itself on its work ethic, ... I've already said that if you've got talent and if you work hard, they're going to win a lot of games.
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.
games reserve
We use the reserve games for a reason.
backs balls continue outside solve until
Our outside backs have to play quicker. We're getting balls blocked, and that's going to continue until we actually solve the problem.
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.
calm effect front good organizer settling team
He's very good as an organizer in front of him, he communicates very well. He has a calm demeanor, that has a settling effect on a team defensively.
He's very dangerous. You have to give him respect.
andy field forward hopefully looking time together underneath
I'm actually excited, looking forward to getting (Kreis and Cunningham) on the field together at the same time and hopefully having Andy underneath them.
few figure games hard last veterans
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.