Chicago Fire 1, L.A. Galaxy 1
Q. Your thoughts on the defense and the midfield and how you guys didn't take care of the ball in those important situations and did that cost you?
MAYA YOSHIDA: Yes, you're right. I agree. I agree. I agree. We play what they wanted to play. They have a very clear idea. No counterattack. Set pieces. And instead, we having the ball and taking too much risk in the midfield and individual error, including myself. We discuss a lot, and we should not have done like that. Embarrassing for -- if we finish like nine points this week, it would be great but now we bring back six points. Still, we are in good position. We almost finished half of the season, and we need to see ourselves what we need to improve and what we could improve for the rest of the season. It's obviously defensive side. We should have played much better first half. Every game first half we are struggling, and then second half, much better. That's also something we mentioned.
And of course now they know how we distribute and how we dominate the break line. Most of the team making defensive -- so we have to invade that kind of defensive wall. This is also our point of improvement for the rest of the season.
Q. You touched up on it a little bit. But we are right around the halfway point of the season. Are you satisfied with what you're seeing? How much more can this team improve? How much are you guys going to talk about this? You have a 14-day gap in between games now.
Yeah, it's a big improvement since halftime season, that's obvious. But I'm still not satisfied enough. I'm not happy enough. Maybe generally people say, yes, you are actually well, but I feel like we could play much better. Still we need more points. We should be in the top of the league at this point. I'm always -- stay hungry and greedy so I will do more and more and more and more.
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