CARSON, Calif. -- LA Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena's thoughts on LA's 1-0 loss to the Colorado Rapids...
(On his thoughts on the match...)
ARENA: “We just didn’t play well tonight, not well enough to win anyway. Give them credit they got an opportunistic goal and a great finish by Edson.”
(On how Villarreal and McBean performed…)
ARENA: “An okay performance, certainly not dangerous enough tonight. Between them, probably not enough chances.”
(On Kofi Opare’s performance…)
ARENA: “Kofi played very well, I thought Brian Rowe played well, the new players we brought into the lineup did very well.”
(On Marcelo Sarvas’ performance…)
ARENA: “Marcelo played well, had a couple chances as well, he’s played well all year. Marcelo played well tonight.”
(On whether MLS should cancel games during international windows…)
ARENA: “Well it’s ridiculous we have to play these games in these windows. We have such a congested schedule, I don’t think we’ve played Colorado yet this year with our team, which is ridiculous. You know, you’re in playoff races and I think every time, I don’t know if every time is a fixture window but for whatever reason we’ve not played them yet with our full team.”
(On the status of Carlo Cudicini…)
ARENA: “It was my decision not to play him tonight.”
(On what the loss does to LA’s confidence and whether it was a throwaway game…)
ARENA: “It’s not a throw-away game even though the way we schedule in the league we do make games very peculiar, difficult, but it’s certainly not a throw-away game. We played this game certainly to win tonight.”
