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賽後訪問

Here's some post-match reaction from today's match.

LA GALAXY HEAD COACH RUUD GULLIT
On the result…
I would say disappointment. We played so well. You could bury this
game in the first half. The chances we had in the first half were
incredible. They had three possibilities and they scored three.
Sometimes football is unfair but you have to deal with it if you
don’t do the things you need to do. We made it so difficult by not
burying those chances. I think we lost because of Toronto. They
played better in the end. We wasted so many chances. We lost more
of ourselves today.

On the defense…
You saw how the game developed. We aren’t going to talk about
defense. We played well. We were in front of the goalkeeper three
times and couldn’t bury it. They had one chance, and we made a
mistake. It was immediately a goal. It’s frustrating. It was
unnecessary goals. It makes it hard to accept, especially because
we were so much better.

On Sean Franklin…
I think that Sean played well today also. He wasn’t involved in
any of the balls that resulted in goals. He did his job. If we
scored all the possibilities we had, we wouldn’t even be talking
about this. The goals that we gave away were incredibly sloppy.

On Beckham taking down Cunningham…
I think we were lucky there. It was the only luck we had the whole game.


LA GALAXY FORWARD LANDON DONOVAN
Thoughts on the match…
We are obviously disappointed. I’m disappointed in myself. Having
three chances like that could changed the game, would have changed
the game. We did well to get back in it—twice. I think we were
just a little naive at the end. We probably should have just settled
and taken that point.

On losing…
You always want to win at home, but given the circumstances. They
were playing better and coming into the game, I think the mature
thing to do was to have just said at worst we get a point of out
the game. Instead of throwing caution to the wind and going for
it, leaving ourselves exposed in the back.

On the heat…
It probably played a big role. They came back into the game late.
They didn’t give much in the first half or the beginning of the
second half, but it seemed that they found their energy in the end
and it was visa versa for us. We put out a lot more in the beginning
of the game and normally with better finishing the game is over by
then. With the heat and trying for us to push forward was a combination
of what happened at the end.

LA GALAXY MIDFIELDER DAVID BECKHAM
Overall thoughts on today’s match…
It was a tough game. It was hot out there. It’s not an excuse because
it was hot for both teams. We are disappointed to lose the game, of
course. The first half we had many chances. When it stays like it does,
there is always a chance a team is going to score, and they did.
Congratulations to them. But, we’re disappointed.

On the heat…
It was the same on the both teams. It was extremely hot out there. With
the heat like this, it’s tough. But when you don’t keep the ball or
pass the ball well, it brings all sorts of problems. We lost our shape
in the second half. That’s where the problems started, and then they
started passing the ball around us. They created chances.

On the team’s chemistry…
It’s only three games into the season. That’s going to take time. We
have a relationship with the forwards. In the last game, I scored one
and had an assisted with Landon. There is always chances being created.
Three games into the season, we can’t panic too much. We are
disappointed about today.

On taking on Cunningham…
Maybe it was a foul, maybe it wasn’t. Sometimes they give them,
sometimes they don’t. They didn’t for that one. Thankfully, we
got away with that one.

On creating chances…
That’s what it’s all about. Creating chances and having the confidence
of finishing them off. As long as I’m creating chances and Ely on the
left is creating chances, at some point we are going to score. It’s
about putting the goals away, and hopefully that will start soon. We
still created a lot of chances today. Landon got two. It just wasn’t
enough in the end.


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