LA Galaxy 3, Portland Timbers 2
Q. Hey, John. Congratulations on the win. The last couple of games have been games where you guys have gotten out to leads and let some things creep back making it a little interesting for yourselves. What do you have to do to close those games out earlier and make the games a little more boring for yourselves.
JOHN NELSON: Yeah, a lot of these games like tonight was a lot of transition back and forth, back and forth and that's something we don't want, especially with a got team like Portland, one of the best attackers in the league, their front three. I think it's something, close off the middle more. I think we can do a little better at that. They're just flying down the middle and if they we can do that many more, it will help us tonight.
Q. First off, are you okay? You took a shot to the head there.
JOHN NELSON: Yeah, he hit me pretty hard. I'm all good. Thank you.
Q. You go into the Leagues Cup break in first place. What kind of growth have you seen this team take just taking it back to the last month or so?
JOHN NELSON: I would say a lot especially from the start of the year to now and I would say defensively, not giving up as many goals, better on defensive free kicks, defensive corners and these are mature wins. Yeah, we give up maybe some goals but good teams find a way to win and like you said, going into this break, top of the west, it's huge going into Leagues Cup and then the last part of the season.
Q. Hey, John, congratulations on the win tonight. You mentioned earlier Portland probably one of the scariest front three. Can you talk about the last three minutes plus eight minutes of stoppage time. Some of the subs, you saw them play a huge role as well.
JOHN NELSON: Yeah, the -- honestly I don't think it should have been that long. They had maybe one chance at the end. Once we went to three in the back, Maudi did great, big headers, even guys like Miguel who came in and did defensive work, that's huge for us. Everyone is contributing defensively to win a game like that, it's massive for us. Thanks, guys.
MODERATOR: And with that, that will wrap our press conference. We'll share these video set recaps tonight and we'll be hosting Leagues Cup against Chivas as they are the home team on Sunday, August 4th but we will travel against San Jose on Wednesday, July 31st. We'll have a match day minus one press conference Zoom, that's going to be a Zoom thing so feel free to join from home as it will only be virtual. It's a whole different beast.
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