New York Red Bulls 7, LA Galaxy 0
CHRISTIAN RAMIREZ: Before any questions, I want to apologize to the traveling supporters for today's performance, and just because we know they spent their hard-earned money to travel across country, and just it wasn't good enough from us top to bottom.
Q. Seeing a score line like 7-0 is a big number and certainly I'm sure for most of you guys, it's maybe one of the bigger numbers you've ever seen in an MLS game. How does this game get away from you guys so quickly?
CHRISTIAN RAMIREZ: Probably started right in the first few minutes. And then it just felt like the first three times, crossed the field, just hit us in the face, and yeah, it was just one of those that just felt every little bounce went their way on the first three times and then you find yourself down 3-0 and trying to chase the game.
Yeah, this is the worst score line I've ever been part of. It tops a 6-1 or 6-2 at home in 2017. Yeah.
Q. Greg talked about the entire team being disconnected. How did you feel on the front line? You were playing a two up top to start with. Did you feel like there were chances for you guys?
CHRISTIAN RAMIREZ: Yeah, we still had a couple chances, picked out the wrong pass or just slightly behind someone. I have one in the first half to close off the space and I just tried to go over him and got underneath it a little bit. Diego and Marco and I had a 3v2 that just goes past Marco and.
In the second half we had a few. Yeah, it's just, yeah, Greg is right, we're disconnected from front to back and still somehow created chances.
Q. Mentally for you guys, it feels like it's the lowest point of season. I manage it is. But how do you deal with this knowing you have to play again meek?
CHRISTIAN RAMIREZ: Have a short memory. It is the lowest point. For some of us, all of us, I would say, it's the lowest point in our careers to be wearing in bath and be in the position we're in hurts and it should hurt and we should be ashamed and embarrassed. But.
There's only one way out of this. We have to somehow get through. It put this to bed tonight and I guarantee there won't be much sleep tonight. This is going to haunt us tonight and we have to get ourselves together to figure out a way to turn this thing around, and it starts on Wednesday, another real tough place.
And if we don't get our acts together in terms of putting this to bed and getting this out of our minds, it really is capable of doing the same. To we have to turn this momentum in our favor somehow and and wrap up the week with LAFC.
Q. Looking at just big picture and the way things have been going, really, since the start of the season, does it feel unreal? Does it feel like the results exist in an alternative reality?
CHRISTIAN RAMIREZ: I don't really understand your question to be honest.
Q. You guys have played well enough to win several times this year. The results should be better than what they are. It just seems that no matter what happens, everything seems to go wrong. Does it feel unreal?
CHRISTIAN RAMIREZ: Yeah. Just when you think you can't get any lower than it got last week, to lose not giving up a shot, this happens.
It hurts. At a loss for words and we have to show face in the good times and show face in the bad times, and that's why I'm here. Hope at the end of the year look back at these moments and we're in a way better position than we are right now and we can climb out of this.
Q. Do you think you guys can step up with all the missing pieces that you have right now?
CHRISTIAN RAMIREZ: Yeah, I think I'm on the record as saying I'm a firm believer of, if we go through this stretch of winless games, why can't we go for 12 games without losing? The Red Bulls showed it last year when made a run to the MLS Cup that anything is possible. We have to continue to believe in each other and somehow scrape our way out of this.
We have to not give up more goals than we score. We have to somehow be able to come out on the better end.
Q. Is it something tactically?
CHRISTIAN RAMIREZ: It's everyone. Yeah, Greg said it on the field. This is humbling for all of us. We all got it wrong. We can't break up. We can't -- if anybody is going to jump off the ship, they can jump off of it but there's got to be guys that are committed.
I look everybody in the eyes and everybody is still together trying to figure this out. There is not one person that I feel is looking the other way and not agreeing with what we need to do. If we're going down, we're going down swinging together, but I think we'll get out of it.
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