JESSE MARSCH – HEAD COACH, NEW YORK RED BULLS
What were your thoughts on the match?
We lacked a lot of urgency, desire, the ability to pick up second balls, ability to fight and the turf played very fast tonight and it was hard to get the game under control. What it came down to was who was able to pick up all the loose balls, who was able to grind out the plays and we came in second so many times tonight. So credit to Toronto but very disappointing from us because this is the first time all year I feel this has been the case so at this point in the season to not understand what big games are like, it’s disappointing from us.
You were missing a couple starters, do you feel anyone that filled in might have let you down tonight?
No I would not single any one person out tonight, I would single out everybody! I would say that every single guy that started tonight was not good enough, 11 guys were not good enough and it led to our downfall.
What influence did Giovinco have coming on late in the game?
He comes on, he makes one play and makes it 2-0 and ends the game almost. It was a great goal.
What are the keys for the team to getting back on track Sunday at Red Bull Arena?
Well it is good that we have a quick turn around so we had better get ourselves straight and get our minds straight as we have lot to play for. We need to physically get through the next few days and get ready for another huge game on Sunday.
SACHA KLJESTAN – MIDFIELDER, NEW YORK RED BULLS
Did you feel the team was a bit out of sync tonight?
I wouldn’t say we were out of sync I just think we were a bit late to second balls, a bit late for our 50/50 tackles and Toronto got the better of us and they were a bit more up for the challenge tonight. The conditions tonight were a fast pitch and it was a bit windy, evidently Toronto wanted to slow the game down and we wanted to speed it up and wanted to play fast. A difficult game tonight and a bad result for us but a couple games left to get on the right food headed to the playoffs.
I feel like we all could have done a bit more, we all could have put a little more out there to get a better result. It’s always nice when you have multiple games in a week, the week goes by faster and the games are what we look forward to. A couple light days of training then we have our last home game and we want to put a good result up in front of our fans.
LUIS ROBLES – GOALKEEPER, NEW YORK RED BULLS
It seemed like you guys were out of sync for one of the first times all year, what did you see in front of you out there?
That pretty much sums it up, we were slow to react to a lot of second balls, in a sense they pressed us and did pretty well with that but for the first 80 minutes until we got the goal everything was a step too slow whether it was the ball that we were playing or our reactions.
The coach mentioned the team came out lethargically, what do you think attributed to that?
It’s always hard to put your finger on that, I’ve been in games where the teams lethargic and it seems very difficult to break out of it. When we look at this game we are going to know we lost an opportunity to advance. We have to use it as fuel, as a lesson to us, that no team in this league is going to bend over backward for us. It is always going to be a battle to win out there, it’s hard to win in this league, we’ve shown we have the quality to do that. For the most part of the season we have shown we have the consistency to do that, sometimes these games happen but it was a playoff type game and these are the games we want to get a result out of. I’m confident if we play a game like this again, we’ll react faster and perform better and get a result home or away.
