The New York Red Bulls failed to capture three points at home against Columbus Crew SC on Saturday night, but according to Captain Luis Robles, this loss will serve as a learning experience.
"I think the most important thing is what we’re going to learn from this situation," Robles said. "We know that ultimately, we can be a good team, but we’re just not at our peak yet and in a way that’s a good thing because there’s so plenty more margin to attain and to continue to improve, and I think that’s going to be the spirit with this locker room."
The Red Bulls played three matches in seven days, which may have played a factor in the team allowing three goals in the first half, but Robles believes this team will do what's necessary to improve and moving forward.
“It’s possible that fatigue played a factor, it’s possible that we came in a little complacent," Robles said. "It does suck that we didn’t get the points tonight, especially at home in front of our fans, but it’s this mentality of not being complacent, improving, learning from our mistakes, and I believe that we’re going to do that. It’s something like that that’s going to be the counter less to us being the sort of team that can compete for a championship.”
Even with the big deficit, Tyler Adams knew the team would bounce back in the second half.
"We had a little wakeup call going into the second half," Adams said. It’s never ideal to be down three goals and that was very unlike us. But going into the second half we showed what a good team we are and how we could try to bounce back. We had chances, we definitely could’ve came back, if not win the game. There’s no surprise how resilient our team is."
The next matchup for New York will be on Sunday, August 5, when they welcome LAFC to Red Bull Arena, which Adams feels the Red Bulls will be ready for.
"We get a couple days off now," Adams said. "Obviously, three games in a week is never ideal but we dealt with it pretty well. We got six out of the nine points. We’ll be ready for LAFC now. We know we have a big one this Sunday. So, we’ll be excited for it. They come to our house again and we know we’re good at home. So, we just need to put a better outing than today.”
