St. Louis City SC 3, LA Galaxy 3
Q. This is a game where you look like for the first time you score three goals, and maybe the offense is starting to fire a little bit and you were able to play from behind and come back and tie it. Are there positives to take from this?
MARCO REUS: Honestly, so fast after the game, very disappointed about the result because at the end, we had the lead. It was just, I don't know, five minutes left on the clock and I was on the bench and I had the feel in this situation I was not aware of the situation, it could be dangerous because they put eight in the front and two in the back and we just stayed with five.
So then we missed a header and sometimes in football, if you miss one header, and then maybe the other guys have to have a chance and score, and they score. For me, very disappointed about the result, and also disappointed about how we concede goals. We had the chance to create much much much more chances, opportunities, creating chances but we was a little bit slow in the build up sometimes because when there are -- two pivots from them was pushing up and most of the time, the guy was free and it was hard to find him.
Q. How are you feel after a hot game out there and what have you found in the combinations with Nasci and Pec being able to open up the offense?
MARCO REUS: I feel good. I was out for ten days, 11 days, back to full training week this week. So was not a problem. Of course, here, it's a little bit different than in L.A. or other places but I feel good. For everybody else, the same.
Yeah, the combination between us four in front, especially, it could be better. Honestly, for me, it's the second time that we played with Nas in front and with Joe and Pec. Yeah, we can be more dangerous in different situations, especially when we have to defend and then we win the ball and we prior to contact -- it has to be more efficient for news the front. We have to create more chances. We had a few in the beginning in the first half and then I had the feeling, okay, the game is with us, and then for some reason, we concede from nowhere, goals.
It breaks us a little bit in this moment but again, we come back but yeah, the goal has to be to, yeah, be dominant, especially in these games, especially away. I would not say that we are far away from this, but it miss maybe a couple more understanding of the situation out there.
Now we have a little bit of a break, just try to clear our heads from the first 16 games, and then we're going -- coming back to the second part of the season. That means, for us, if we want to try to come back into a playoff situation, we have to win almost every game. But I've played so long in my career, I know nothing is impossible, so we go for it.
Q. Last year you saw how dangerous Pec can be. Today, two goals, an up and down season, how important is it to get him in rhythm?
MARCO REUS: Me and Pec, we have a special relationship, I would say, because he has much, much talent but sometimes he has to understand that just sprinting and going forward and doing different things is not every time the perfect time to do it.
So I know he's young and he can learn really, really much, especially this season, when it's not going that well for him the first part of the season.
Now, this week, it was a little bit like -- he was scoring goals and pushing himself hard in the training. This is, at the end, like you train the whole week to prepare for the game and this is the result at the end. This means you have to be aware in training and just be there and try to be better every day. Yeah, I hope he can continue with the goals and also try to work out for the team.
Q. You brought up your experience and you've obviously had a very long career and experienced a lot of seasons. When things are going bad and there's a lack of execution at times for different reasons, how have teams been able to solve those problems and are you confident the team is going to be able to eliminate those moments?
MARCO REUS: You said it already, eliminate the list makes, that's the only thing. I know no match in my life will be perfect, so you have always mistakes in your game. It's a part of it. Of course, when these mistakes, it's not going in our way, we concede goals, it makes us -- for the team, I don't know how many mistakes we did in the last weeks or the beginning of the season. It cost us I don't know how many points and to come back every time, it shows the right mentality of the team is still there. But of course it is frustrating when you are going here to St. Louis and you play 95 degrees and it's hot. In the end, yeah, it was our mistake and a little bit unlucky in some situations.
Like we all said in the last weeks, we stay together and we have to speak, also, about the bad situations in the game and also about the good situations. It's not like the last 16 or 17 games that we lost them because we are not good enough. It's about we are doing too many mistakes, and if you stop it, you can go on a winning streak.
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