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...
attack ball fight gave lost principle stood watched win
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.
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.
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.
ball freddy
Freddy may be 16, but he can still place the ball as well as anyone.
ball experience field
It's disappointing because I know we're better than what we showed. We have too much experience on the field to give the ball away as many times as we did.
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.
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.
applaud bad bottom change effort leaves line negative taste
It still leaves a bad taste in your mouth. You want to applaud the effort and change and everything else, but the bottom line is it's still a negative result.
exciting huge missed scoring threat
I think it's huge just to get him back on the field. His leadership, his determination, his abilities, his threat of scoring goals, it's just exciting to have him back. We've missed him.
cancel
They canceled our game, ... We didn't cancel it.
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.
best bring exactly figure gave handle knows week
He knows how to bring the best out of a player. He has you for a week and he knows exactly how to handle you. He just gave me guidelines. I went out there and he let me play and figure things out for myself.
bummed next playoffs
They were bummed that the playoffs kind of ended, but they are professionals and they know we've got to get better next year.
burst came coming fine pad picked push since solid stepped toe turn
He's been solid since we picked him up. I think someone stepped on his toe or something so that's why he came out of the game. We put a little pad under it, so I think that's why he wasn't able to turn and push but he was fine coming back for the ball. But after that he didn't have that burst that he had in the first half.