Mike Devaney
Mike Devaney
credit defended hard hurt late mistakes played poorly took van worked
I thought we defended poorly at times and credit to them, Van Buren took advantage. We worked really hard and played well for most of the first half, but made some mistakes late hurt us.
far perfect playing
I thought defensively, at times, we got exposed. Far from perfect, and we've still got a long way to go to be playing perfect soccer.
buts capable certainly error game ifs margin massive played road win year
It's a massive game. It's probably the most important game that we've played all year long. We really now have no margin for error at all. So we've got to go on the road and play well and we really need to win. There's really no ifs ands or buts about it. We really have to go and play well and win a game, which we're certainly capable of doing.
situation
They've been in this situation before and they know what to expect.
affected aware people understand
I understand it more now. I didn't know that that many people had been affected negatively, especially around here. I wasn't aware of that.
bit chance deep expectation experience maybe obviously players respond returning state
The way that I wanted them to respond was 'Hey, let's go on and do something maybe that nobody's ever done before and do something a little bit special,' and they have a chance to do that. Obviously returning so many players who have the experience of going deep into the state tournament, the expectation is for us that yeah, we want to get back there and we'd like to get back to that championship game.
hard imagine tournament winning
They're going to be hard to beat. I would imagine winning the tournament is going through one of those guys.
group players talented
We've got a lot of talented players in this group and collectively we all have to play well from back to front.
bang dream goals minutes settled three whatever
We got off to a dream start. We bang in three goals in the first 10 minutes or whatever it was and that really settled us down.