LouCity’s post-Charleston Battery press conference
Player-coach Luke Spencer | July 14, 2018
On conceding so quickly:
“Credit to Charleston. They sit in and they make it difficult on us and they prey on our mistakes. Unfortunately, in the first half we made too many mistakes and they were able to capitalize on them. I thought our effort and our intensity lacked throughout the first half and we were able to bring it in the second half, but at that time they were sitting in and it was too late.”
On conceding from the corner:
“For the second goal, it comes down to individual accountability. We’re a team that doesn’t like to give up cheap goals on set pieces like that.”
On feeling if it was possible to find an equalizer:
“Yeah, they were sitting in and making it difficult and it was a case of where we weren’t really going to pass through them. We had to put Paco [Craig] next to Cam [Lancaster] and try to pick up some second balls. That’s where the goal came from. I thought, at times, we needed to do a better job of reading the game and playing more direct into them to find that space for the second ball.”
On Charleston sitting deep and how it prepares them for a deep-lying squad:
“It starts with learning our lessons tonight. Our focus wasn’t right to start the game and we can’t allow teams to score early on us because they make it more difficult and it encourages them to sit in more.”
On Oscar Jimenez’s red card:
“It was a difficult play, Oscar is trying to recover and thought he had position. Obviously, he didn’t. He needs to be a little more disciplined in recovering.”
On preparing for the Open Cup match on Wednesday:
“We have to learn from this and take action to not let it happen again. We’re going to reflect on this game, learn from what we can do better, and move forward to Chicago.”
