In unbeaten run away from home continues for FC Dallas following a 0-0 tie against Minnesota United.
Highlights:
Lineups:
FC Dallas: Maarten Paes; Nolan Norris, Osaze Urhoghide, Lalas Abubakar (Sebastien Ibeagha 45'), Shaq Moore; Kaick, Ramiro Benetti, Show (Patrickson Delgado 82’); Pedrinho (Lucho Acosta 63'), Anderson Julio (Bernard Kamungo 90'), Logan Farrington
Subs not used: Diego García, Michael Collodi, Anothony Ramirez
Minnsota United: Dayne St. Clair, Joseph Rosales, Jefferson Diaz (Carlos Harvey 67'), Nicolas Romero (Morris Duggan 67'), Michael Boxall, Bongokuhle Hlongwane; Robin Lod, Wil Trapp (Samuel Shashoua 67'), Joaquin Pereyra; Tani Oluwaseyi, Kelvin Yeboah
Subs not used: Alec Smir, Anthony Markanich, DJ Taylor, Ho-Yeon Jung, Loic Mesanvi, Sang-Bin Jeong
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Scoring Summary
None
Misconduct Summary
FCD - Ramiro - 35'
MNU - Trapp - 41'
MNU - Romero - 58’
MNU - Oluwaseyi - 64'
MNU - Rosales - 68'
FCD - Norris - 88’
Stats
Quote Sheet
Head Coach Eric Quill
On tonight…
“I'm just extremely proud of the mentality to respond tonight. I thought their efforts, their desire, and their moments of fortitude were great. We had the belief to stay in it, when we were suffering a bit, we competed. I told them before the game that this game was going to be unlike anything we've played so far. This team (Minnesota), they're super direct, and they have a big mentality, which is why they're at the top of the heap. Whoever's going to win, was going to have a bigger mentality. And I think both teams had big mentalities tonight, and fought each other. We had some decent chances to maybe steal it. We played hard. Can we add some more quality? Probably. But this was never going to be an easy game.”
On Farrington’s start tonight…
“Logan did great. The minutes haven't been there in abundance for him, so the quality was maybe a little lacking in some areas. But I thought his work rate was outstanding. I thought on both sides of the ball, he was super honest, and he gave us some breathing room and transition to get out on the break. He had some ‘almost plays’ that I think is due to a little bit of lack of playing time, but that'll come. Logan is a warrior, I've told him before, if there were 12 starters, you'd be a starter every weekend. He's going to play a lot for us. He deserves to play a lot of minutes. His effort, desires, mentality, everything is there, and now it's just finding quality within that front two. If we go to the front three, how does he find his xG and how do we find him? How do we orchestrate his movements to do what he does best, and that's getting in front of the goal.”
On how important this result was ahead of next week…
“You never want to go into a game questioning what you're doing and who we are. I don't think there's any question right now that we have the mentality to play against anybody. We have to clean up some things and become sharper, and it's going to be a completely different game than what this was next weekend. Minnesota is a team that doesn't want the ball, and Miami loves the ball, and so a completely different mission and task ahead of us, but these guys are resilient, they've executed game plan after game plan and these guys are showing that they like the challenge coming on the road and being the underdog and welcoming that and fighting throughout the 95 tonight to get to scrap for a point, an important point.”
Defender Osaze Urhoghide
On the team’s performance tonight…
“It feels good to get another clean sheet. The team worked really hard. Some guys got an opportunity to prove themselves and help the team get a point. We have to go again but it's another good point on the road.”
On the stretch of road games…
“We have to rest up. We will get a couple players back but we have to continue training hard during the week. We will focus on getting three points next weekend again. We'll keep building on this momentum, it feels good.”
Goalkeeper Maarten Paes
On tonight's performance…
“Tonight felt really good, Minnesota is a tough place to play at, especially with their play style. We are really pleased with the clean sheet. This was a good point and we are still unbeaten on the road, we are happy with that. We are proud of our hard work today, defensively and also up top we created high quality chances which is not easy to do on the road in MLS. I am also proud of my 100th appearance, it takes a lot of consistency and hard work to get there.”
On Dallas' match versus Miami next week…
“There will be a lot of attention on us next week. Miami is going to play similar to Minnesota in terms of transition, they're not going to high press as much. We have to be ready for the transitions of their number 10, and the guys around him. We're going to give our best, hopefully we do something special, because we also have a lot of special players.”
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