CARSON, Calif. -- LA Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena spoke to reporters following the Galaxy's scoreless draw with the Colorado Rapids.
Arena's comments are below.
On the game:
“It was a good hard-fought game; our second half was certainly better than the first.”
On Jack McBean:
“I think Jack [McBean] had a good game, he did a good job and made a bunch of good plays on both sides of the ball. We [thought] of taking him out actually, but he continued to play well, so we kept him in there. I think he did a real good job, he held the ball up, drew some fouls, helped create a few chances and for his first game with us this year I thought he did very good.”
On Steven Gerrard’s and Giovani dos Santos’ return:
“I think they both did well. Giovani [dos Santos] played maybe 10 more minutes than we had planned. We have to be careful; both of the players are coming back from injuries, so I think we were able to do that. We think Stevie will move forward, and we think by the start of July he is going to be 100 percent.”
On Jack McBean’s role moving forward:
“I haven’t gone through all that yet, so we’ll see. We won’t have our other strikers for a while. I am not going to worry about that a whole lot, but obviously, if he’s not in playing with the first team, he’ll play with Galaxy II.”
On what he takes away from the team’s attack despite scoreless draw:
“They’re hard to break down, they did a good job dropping that back line, there’s no space behind them, and that made it difficult and obviously if the ball is in the air and they have a pretty good center back in the air. Our best chance in the game was probably the one with Emmanuel [Boateng] at the end of the game. I think 26 blocked it off the line; I think it was a pretty good play by him. We got to the end of the line a bunch of times with Ema but the service wasn’t quite good enough, I thought actually some of our set pieces were pretty dangerous. When [Steven] Gerrard got in the game I think centrally we had a couple combinations that were pretty close to finishing off but never quite got there. Overall, Sebastian [Lletget] created a few chances on the right side as well. We were just okay. Obviously, Colorado’s efforts defensively were very good. They worked real hard on the defensive end of the field and were tough to break down.”
On Brian Rowe:
“Brian [Rowe] made two or three real good saves. He was important.”
