Steve Nicol
Steve Nicol
Stephen "Steve" Nicolis a Scottish former professional footballer. He attended Marr College in Troon and developed into a utility player, who played for the successful Liverpool teams of the 1980s. He was also a regular member of the Scotland national football team and represented his country at the 1986 FIFA World Cup...
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I certainly hope it gave him a shake and made him realize what's important. He's come back and he's looked as though that's exactly what he's done. He's taken it on board for what it was and he's back to what he was.
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It's not the worst, it's not the best. We're pleased with a lot of things we have done, there are obviously things we are not particularly carried away with, but it's early on. We feel as though we have shown teams already that, if they are going to beat us or take points of us, they're going to have to be at their best. We know where we are and where we have to improve.
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It is great that we are able to play Pepe, even though we lose Danny. They play the game slightly differently. Pepe gives us good possession and he will calm things down.
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I think we deserve it. We have had some good results at home and away from home. Tonight we should have won, even though we were two down but we felt we could get something. We said at halftime that 30 of the 45 minutes we played some decent stuff and felt we were in charge. There was just a period of eight to 10 minutes where we lost it and they got both their goals. It took a couple minutes after giving up the second one before we got back in it.
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I think, as normal, it was a battle royal out there between us and D.C., because it always is. I think the truth of the matter is that we were fortunate to get the win. As far as the football we played we can play far better than we showed tonight. But, as usual, we showed that as far as guts and courage and passion, we have it in abundance. That's what won us the game.
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Well we can't play 3-5-2 all the time. It is far too much for the two-way players. We have to get box to box which is not easy to do coming off a game down in Dallas. It was fairly straightforward. There wasn't much that we had to think about.
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We need to work on keeping the ball more. Physically we are in good shape, and three more weeks will only improve that further.
penalties penalty whatever
We aren't getting penalties for whatever reason. I thought it was a penalty myself.
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Whether it's a wonder goal, whether it's a deflected goal, whether it's an own goal -- we just need to get a break.
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We're away the whole of July and home the whole of August. That's not what anybody wants. You're hoping for a balanced season. The way it is structured doesn't help us any.
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He was in and out at Los Angeles which is going to affect your confidence with the team. He's realizing what he's capable of.
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He has a track record as a full international and comes from one of the top college programs in the country.
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We had the chances to win the tie over the two games. In particular, we should have hit the net in Bermuda and that is what cost us in the second leg. Over the two legs I think we showed we were better than them without having our strongest side out there.
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The worst thing that can happen is for us to be out of the tie by the end of the first game. We need to get the result we are out to achieve and so we need to start by giving nothing away and then working our way into the game and getting forward. We want to keep as good a shape as we can at all times so we have to be talking and passing people on. We don't want players running all over the place, we want to stay with men. If we do that we'll be all right.