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USL Louisville City FC

Louisville City FC 1, Rochester Rhinos 1

August 13, 2016 - United Soccer League Championship (USL)
Louisville City FC News Release


COACH JAMES O'CONNOR

On his team's fight back: "Very pleasing. I can't fathom why we looked so tired out there. We made a load of changes because of fatigue, and we still looked jaded. I get that there's a bit of humidity there, but that impacts on our quality of our decision making -- our quality of passing. The first half, I don't think I've seen us give the ball away so cheaply. We gave the ball away under press continually. But in saying that, the second half I thought the fight back from players was fantastic, and I thought the supporters second half were absolutely tremendous -- well, including the first half. I thought they really stood with the guys. You could constantly hear them singing -- constantly hear them cheering the guys on. I think that definitely played a part as well, so a big thank you to the supporters. "I'm really pleased with the fight we showed the second half, but I think the quality of our play needs to be better. I think, OK, we've had chances. Another night we score. The other night we get a penalty. But I think for how we've been all season, I think we need to be better than that."

PACO CRAIG

On his first career goal: "Well, I was in the center position where I know one of our boys is going to hit it, and so I just thought, 'I'm going to crash the box and see what happens.' It was a great strike from, I think it was you, right, Ben (Newnam)? Great strike - unlucky to hit the post - and I just put myself in a good area and waited to see what happened. I put myself in a good area, waited to see what would happen and luckily Guy (Abend) put it close to me, and it was just a tap in."

BEN NEWNAM

On a sense of urgency late: "Of course, when we're down one-zero, we're going to do everything we can to push to get that goal and equalize. At that point we want to keep pushing on to get the winner. We don't really like to accept ties around here. We don't like to accept, obviously, defeat. A tie to us feels like a loss. We wanted to push as much as we could without conceding. Of course we wanted to have some urgency."

Summary

Match: Louisville City FC vs. Rochester Rhinos

Date: Aug. 13, 2016

Venue: Louisville Slugger Field

Kickoff: 7:31 p.m.

Weather: Cloudy, 84 degrees

Attendance: 6,373

Man of the Match: Guy Abend

Scoring

Louisville City FC (0, 1, 1)

Harrisburg City Islanders (1, 0, 1)

Goals

Rochester: 13' Christian Volesky (Steevan Dos Santos)

Louisville: 85' Paco Craig (Guy Abend)

Lineups

Louisville City FC: 13-Greg Ranjitsingh, 2-Ben Newnam, 18-Paco Craig, 15-Sean Reynolds, 20-Enrique Montano, 8-Guy Abend, 4-Aodhan Quinn (59' 36-Paolo DelPiccolo), 7-Kadeem Dacres, 77-Andrew Lubahn (59' 10-Magnus Rasmussen), 9-Cameron Lancaster (76' 14-Ilija Ilic), 17-Chandler Hoffman.

Subs not used: 28-Tim Dobrowolski, 22-George Davis IV, 24-Kyle Smith, 6-Tarek Morad.

Head coach: James O'Connor

Rochester Rhinos: 18-Tomas Gomez, 3-Bradley Kamdem (78' 21-Dominic Samuel), 5-Vasius Apostolopous, 7-Ryan James, 15-Joe Farrell, 6-Michel Guilavogui (59' 29-Sofiane Tergour), 11-Kenardo Forbes, 13-Mike Garzi, 17-Wall Fall, 9-Christian Volesky, 10-Steevan Dos Santos.

Subs not used: 1-Adam Grinwis, 32-Chase Miller, 4-Sean Totsch, 8-Andre Fortune, 16-Sean Reilly.

Head coach: Bob Lilley

Stats: LouCity / Rochester

Shots: 14 / 7

Saves: 2 / 3

Corner Kicks: 8 / 6

Fouls: 11 / 16

Offside: 0 / 4

Officials

Referee: Artur Sigiba

Assistant Referee 1: Maggie Short

Assistant Referee 2: Reiss Baxter

4th Official: Paul Terry

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