FC Dallas continues its struggles in the month of May following a 1-0 loss to the Seattle Sounders.
Highlights:
Lineups:
FC Dallas: Maarten Paes, Marco Farfan (Tsiki Ntsabeleng 75'), Osaze Urhoghide, Sebastien Ibeagha, Lalas Abubakar; Ramiro, Show (Kaick 61'), Patrickson Delgado (Shaq Moore 61'), Pedrinho; Anderson Julio (Bernard Kamungo 45’), Logan Farrington (Petar Musa 61')
Subs not used: Michael Collodi, Alvaro Augusto, Nolan Norris, Diego Garcia
Seattle Sounders: Stefan Frei; Nouhou (Reed Baker-Whiting 82'), Kee-Hee Kim, Yeimar Gomez (Jonathan Bell 16'), Alex Roldan; Cristian Roldan, Obed Varges; Ryan Kent (Osaze De Rosario 82'), Albert Rusnak, Pedro de la Vega (Georgi Minoungou 68’); Jesus Ferreira (Paul Rothrock 68’)
Subs not used: Andrew Thomas, Kalani Rienzi, Danny Leyva, Joao Paulo
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Scoring Summary
SEA: Rusnak (penalty) - 86'
Misconduct Summary
FCD: Ramiro - 10'
FCD: Abubakar - 43’
FCD: Musa - 85'
SEA: Rusnak - 87'
FCD: Kaick - 90+4'
FCD: Urhoghide - 90+5'
Stats
Quote Sheet
Head Coach Eric Quill
On the game…
“Feel disappointed for our guys that fought. They fought, and to lose like that is hard to swallow. Proud of their fight, and we've got to look at it, and we got to become better for it. Work at the margins that we're losing on right now and that's all we can do, is not accept it. We can't feel sorry for ourselves and blame. We gotta stand up to this, and we gotta understand how the margins work in this league, and where the margins lie. And it's finding a way. We gotta find a way to be better in certain moments that we can punish the opponent and better, some decision making, but the effort and the fight was there. Just to lose on that goal, on the penalty it is hard to swallow.”
On the squad rotation today…
“That's why you have a team, for weeks like this, where if you're playing in the Open Cup and playing overtime in 120 minutes and flying across the country for two matches. We had to give opportunity to guys, and that's what we did tonight, and they deserved the opportunity, they played hard, and we didn't generate as much as I would like to generate in the front half of the game, but the the commitment to defend and hustle and fight was there for me, and just unfortunate, again, an unfortunate break that loses us the game. So we've got to find a way. No excuses.”
Midfielder Anderson Julio
On todays match…
“After a long trip and matches against two tough opponents, we thought we played well today. It is unfortunate that we lost due to a penalty kick but we found ways to create danger but we could not finish. Seattle is a tough place to play and we needed to be at the top of our game to get a win but today it did not go our way.”
On the two matches this week…
“We have two matches this week against two very good Eastern Conference opponents so there is no time to waste and we have to start preparing for our match in Cincinnati and our home match versus the Union. The team needs to be ready to fight for the entirety of 90 minutes.”
