Sporting KC Manager Peter Vermes
What did you think of the effort tonight?
I thought in the first 25 minutes we had the game. We never put anything away. They got one chance and they scored. They got a second chance and they scored right before half. You can't chase the game back when you give up two mistakes — two goals. And everything else we were just trying to get back in game mode and it completely put the game back in their favor in regards to being able to drive at that point. But very, very poor job on our part.
What did you think of the intensity?
I didn't like it at all. I think there were certain players who absolutely hindered us throughout the game, and unfortunately I couldn't make the kind of moves that I wanted to because people got a little bit tired or strained. Unfortunately there were just certain people who really hurt us in the game tonight. They were terrible on the ball, and they just lacked the competitiveness that you need in this league to keep yourself in the game, and we lacked that in a few guys today.
On built-up frustrations...
Is there frustration? Sure. There should be. When you don't play well, there better be frustration. If you think it's happy-go-lucky time and you're just okay with getting beat, you're not only in the wrong profession, but you're in the wrong club.
Sporting Kansas City winger Brad Davis
Thoughts on returning to Houston...
Obviously yeah it was different. It’s the first time I’ve come back and not been in an orange jersey. Definitely different, definitely some emotions there but overall we come here to get a result and we didn’t so it was definitely disappointing in that aspect of things.”
On the match...
I think the first 15, 20 minutes we were on top of them and we had some opportunities to go up and that’s kind of been a little bit of a theme we’ve had. Getting opportunities, not finding the back of the net and then teams come down and get one or two and they’re scoring against us. Credit to them for finishing their chances but after that goal they found some energy in the first half and then they get another one so we’re going into the second half down 2-0 and we knew we had to push the game. The game started to open up a little bit but unfortunately we weren’t really able to find out feet after the first 20, 25 minutes of that game.”
Sporting KC defender and captain Matt Besler
Thoughts on the match...
I thought the opening 24 minutes was good from us, I thought we were able to move the ball well, create a few looks on goal but then Barnes makes the play and changes the game. As soon as they scored they had the run of play for the rest of the half. The one that we gave up before the half is a tough one to give up, that’s something that can’t happen because we go into halftime 2-0 instead of 1-0 and it just makes it a tough game to come back in, especially an away game.
