A Win in Detroit and Seven to Go

Uh, for myself, I was at the game.

I, um, had been critical of the team as far as lack of finishing.

And I, I think I kind of agree with Coach Collins that it wasn't a lack of finishing in this game.

Um, the Detroit FC, uh, keeper did a great job.

You know, he kept them in the game.

Um, Timmer's goal was well taken.

We were very dangerous on the set pieces.

Um, didn't get much out of our forwards.

But one thing I did see, and I love, you know, when you're watching it live, you can watch the whole pitch.

And it seemed to me like there was a concerted effort to press all over the pitch.

And it was basically like, "If you aren't willing to do that, we're gonna pull you out and put someone in who, who will," because every person that came in subsequently when they did substitutions, it was the same thing.

And it really forced, uh, Detroit into a lot of turnovers.

Um, gave us some opportunities which, again, we didn't capitalize on but one.

But I think it's a good sign going forward.

I tend to look at trends, and we've been hard on the team dropping a lot of points even though they've been, you know, unbeaten over, was it five games or so? Um, but when I looked at the overall league, Hartford's been hot.

Um, El Paso's been on fire.

They've won seven straight.

Uh, New Mexico's been solid.

Colorado Springs has been solid.

But beyond that, Sac Republic scored nine points out of the last 15, which is, uh, among the best.

So I think we could be turning a corner.

Again, we're gonna be facing a San Antonio team that, um, is not doing that great, although they are slightly above us on the table right now.

I think it's imperative that we get a three points there because we will have some harder games against, uh, New Mexico and El Paso later on in the season that, uh, we really can't count on getting a whole lot out of at this point.

Maybe when we get there we will.

But I was really happy to see...