LA Galaxy 2, New York City 0
Q. You guys are on a run. What's all falling into place? Tonight was a night where you guys showed you can really kill off a game.
DIEGO FAGÚNDEZ: I think I said it last week. Players have to show up when players are missing, and I think that's what we are doing now. Doesn't matter who is on the field or who is out and this. Whoever is on the field, we are stepping up and doing what we are supposed to.
Tonight you saw what kind of team we can be and like you said, once we start adding key players back, I've been saying this since day one, I think we are a team that is hard to play against.
The main thing I think today was it was nice to keep a shutout, and to keep that clean sheet is definitely night for our defenders and goalkeepers, and at the end of the day everybody put in the shift.
Q. NYC employed the high press in the first half. How were you guys able to break through that?
I think we had a game plan and we stuck to it. I want to say, when you stick to that game plan, they are going to give you the ball at one point, and I think on Decky's goal, that happened. It would have gave us the ball, Diego was trying to go one-on-one, takes a shot and like No. 9, you're supposed to be at the right spot and I told Decky, sometimes when we want to be selfish, the ball is going to land on you and look at what he did today.
Decky is such a hard worker at training and he wants to score goals and when he misses, he gets frustrated. As a number nine, you have to be in the right spot and he's doing that. It's awesome to see. At the same time, even when he's not scoring, he's making plays happen. It's amazing to see that, and now we just want him to keep doing that, keep scoring goals, keep assisting, keep this team going.
Q. The team is unbeaten when you start and with players out like Gastón and Riqui, how much fun are you having in that midfield role right now?
I'm just taking my turn right now being on the field and doing everything I can to help out the team defensively, attacking, whatever it takes. It's a role that I've played before. And I think that's one thing when I got here, Greg, he basically said, look, you are one of those players that can play in any of these positions, so just be ready, and that's what I do.
But like I said, I'm having a lot of fun right now out there. We have amazing players out there. When you work hard, you're going to get rewarded and I think today I definitely got rewarded with that goal. It's nice to see and now we have to recover, get ready and go to Salt Lake and hopefully do it again.
Q. What's the key to the collective buying in?
To be honest when I got here last year, I think there were a lot of injuries, a lot of players that when the team doesn't do well, it's hard to keep that going. I think since I've been here, the team has been winning games and scoring. It's nice to see that.
This year, from the first day we said, hey, we need to make sure that we get points early. We need to make sure that we are winning games ask scoring goals when we have our chances and everybody is buying into it. Doesn't matter who is on the field. Everybody is doing what they are supposed to, and when we have chances to score goals and punish a team, we do that.
I think any of the attacking players can score goals at this point and they can assist. It's nice to see, and I think if we keep working on what we're doing and everybody sticks to the game plan, we can win more games.
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