Quote Sheet: MBFC 2-2 PIT
Cardinale Stadium; Seaside, California
Friday, May 5, 2023
Sporting Director & Head Coach Frank Yallop
On the match:
“I thought we were flat in the first half. When you put on guys that have not played together as much, it’s always a weird one – especially against a team that’s decent and difficult to play against. The good news is we scored right at the end of the half, which, thank goodness we did to get us back in it. It was just one of those performances. We have a lot of guys out right now, which is frustrating, but that’s football. You’ve got to get on with it. Guys got to play tonight that normally don’t get to play. Chuy [Enríquez] was really good in the 10 role and out wide he was good as well. We had some decent performances, we just have to look forward to Tuesday now.”
On extending the unbeaten streak:
“If you look at our attitude, we are still trying to do the right things. Maybe we didn’t play particularly well tonight, which we didn’t for us. But I will say Adrian [Rebollar]’s effort to nick it off the defender and a great ball across for Christian – who is hot. He didn’t have many chances tonight, but the one that mattered, he scored. We were off tonight, we weren’t at our best. We’ll lick our wounds and look forward to getting back at it Tuesday night.”
Forward Alex Dixon
On the result:
“It definitely helps to take a point today instead of dropping all three, but I’m disappointed. I don’t think we had our best game, but we had our moments and everything like that. I think it was important to come away and get a result instead of dropping all three. We got to regroup, rest, recuperate, and get ready for Tuesday, we’ve got a big one then.”
On the physicality of the game:
“It was a physical game for sure. We knew that coming in, they’re going to make it a hard game – It’s a good team. We just need to rest up and take care of our injuries. Hopefully we can get some guys back this coming week, bounce back and hopefully get a good result on Tuesday.”
On how the team responded to two first-half injuries:
“When one guy goes down the next man steps up. Max [Glasser] and Chuy [Enríquez] had to come in in the first half and we didn’t plan on that, but they both came on and contributed. So I think that’s the mentality we have to have going for the rest of the year. If someone goes down, whoever’s next up has to come in and fill the spot. That’s how we’ll grow as a team.”
On his goal:
“We built up play down the right side. Morey [Doner] put a ball in, Volesky got a touch to it. I kind of anticipated it and was able to bring it down. Then I saw the keeper kind of cheating, so I just dinked it a little bit and luckily it went in. It’s always nice to score against a former team. I know some of the guys over there weren’t happy about it, but it felt good.”
