FC Dallas came close to downing the top team in the Western Conference on Saturday night, but fell 3-2 off a late stoppage-time goal from San Diego FC.
Highlights:
Lineups:
FC Dallas: Maarten Paes, Marco Farfan, Lalas Abubakar, Alvaro Augusto, Shaq Moore; Nolan Norris (Tsiki Ntsableng 46’), Patrickson Delgado, Sebastian Lletget (Pedrinho 86'); Lucho Acosta, Bernard Kamungo (Logan Farrington 67'), Petar Musa
Subs not used: Michael Collodi, Diego Garcia, Anthony Ramirez, Leo Chu, Josh Torquato, Sam Sarver
San Diego FC: CJ Dos Santos, Ian Pilcher, Luca Bombino (Franco Negri 71'), Oscar Verhoevan (Jasper Loffelsend 71'), Christopher McVey, Jeppe Tverskov, Onni Valakari, Andres Dreyer, Manu Duah (Tomas Angel 46'), Alex Mighten (Hirving Lozano 71'), Milan Illoski (Emmanuel Boateng 90+8')
Subs not used: Pablo Sisniega, Heine Bruseth, Jacob Jackson
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Scoring Summary
SD: Dreyer (penalty) - 26'
FCD: Musa - 43'
FCD: Lletget - 57'
SD: Lozano (Iloski) - 77'
SD: Angel (Dreyer) - 90+7'
Misconduct Summary
FCD: Moore - 60’
FCD: Farrington - 70'
FCD: Ntsabeleng - 90+2'
SD: Valakari - 90+10'
FCD: Acosta - 90+10'
Stats
Quote Sheet
Head Coach Eric Quill
Thoughts on the game…
“We showed the character that we've been showing a lot this year with when we go down in the lead. I thought we created enough chances to win the game. For sure, just some of the decision making led to our demise. And that's what I told the guys is, I think we are where we are because we don't play an entire 95 plus minutes in every game. You can take the 5-0 San Diego game out, but we're toe to toe with everybody, and we just have moments where we switch off.”
On the message to the team…
“The effort was there. It's not like I'm watching a team that's not giving effort, and we had chances. I would argue, when it's 2-2, we had two huge chances to go 3-2 up before they scored. That's the margins. That's the margin of every sport. We talk about moments. You take your moments or you don't, and they (San Diego) took their moment for the third goal. We don't want to give up three goals, we got to stop bleeding goals. But we had our chances, I like what we created with the ball tonight. I thought we were bright, but again, we had plenty of chances to win the game. For me, it was more of disappointment on the type of goals we gave up.”
Defender Lalas Abubakar
On the emotions after the game…
“Everyone is really disappointed. I thought we put so much into the game and it came down to small details. If you look at the goal they scored, it was a lack of focus and we need to be better. Like Coach (Eric) told us, we are able to hang with the best teams. We had a lack of focus and it ended up being the difference tonight.”
On the positives from tonight’s match…
“The way we played in the first half we can compete with anyone in the league. We have the quality. The results will come. I believe in this team.”
On the upcoming match versus Minnesota…
“It’s really important for us to come out next week and respond. It's a game for the fans, and we need to come out next week and respond for our fans.”
Midfielder Patrickson Delgado
On the match tonight…
“We had the game there. Of course, we have to perfect some details because it got out of hand. I think we have to keep fighting and focus on the next game. Any team can have bad results, but we always give our best for the fans, for ourselves, for our family, for those who are here every day, and nothing will be given away because this group deserves great things.”
