Caught in Possession

Ouch, that was bad. And by that, I mean this, too. Soehn was pretty fired up, and not in a good way. Oh, and he was hoarse, too -- just like on Saturday. When you've given up five goals and been opened up at will over the course of two consecutive matches, and your coach barely has a voice from all the yelling he's been doing on the sidelines, something is amiss, no? Maybe something more than just an injury bug.

Bonus quotes from what we'll just call "the Atlante incident" from now on:

"We weren’t good enough. We came pretty flat and we just played like we didn’t know how to play. I don’t know if it was tiredness or what it was, but there’s no excuse. They did their job and they deserved to win."
-Jaime Moreno

"I think the fatigue is getting to players. First half, we dug ourselves a hole, and it’s hard to get out of it. We tried but they started sitting back in the second half, and they had a couple counters on us, so it was tough. But I think the most important factor was the fatigue."
-Rod Dyachenko

"I’m not sure where the problem was. They were keeping three guys high and – I don’t know. I’ll have to go back and look at it, but they were causing chaos up there and they opened us up."
-Devon McTavish, offering (somewhat of) a defensive postmortem

"We’ve got a couple guys injured and that are coming back from injury, and this might have been a good thing for us, to get a couple bad results and realize that we can’t ever get too comfortable. And now we have the Open Cup and the league to focus on. Chicago just hopped us in the standings, so we have some ground to make up there as well. So we’ll put all of our energy towards that, and make sure we’re involved in this tournament again next year."
-Zach Wells, looking on the bright side, sort of

"There were four forwards on their lineup sheet. I thought they were underestimating us a little bit, considering that we had come off a 4-0 loss. Whenever there’s a wounded team like we were, I think that you have to be careful about a team that’s down and out after their first game. So I think that they were excessively confident."
-Atlante honcho José Guadalupe Cruz