MLS New York City FC

Notes & Quotes: New York City FC 2 - 1 New England Revolution

Published on September 7, 2019 under Major League Soccer (MLS)
New York City FC News Release


SUMMARY

New York City FC 2 - 1 New England Revolution

Saturday, September 7, 2019

2019 MLS Regular Season - Game 28

Attendance: 21,236

LINEUPS

New York City FC: Brad Stuver; Anton Tinnerholm, Sebastien Ibeagha (60' Jesus Medina), Maxime Chanot, Ben Sweat; Alex Ring, Keaton Parks, Maxi Moralez; Alexandru Mitriță (90'+7'), Valentin Castellanos, Gary Mackay-Steven (82' Ismael Tajouri-Shradi)

SUBS UNUSED: Luis Barraza, Juan Pablo Torres, Ebenezer Ofori

New England Revolution: Matt Turner; Brandon Bye, Andrew Farrell, Antonio Milnar Delamea, DeJuan Jones; Carles Gil, Wildried Zahibo, Luis Caicedo, Cristian Penilla (74' Michael Mancienne); Juan Fernando Caicedo (22' Jalil Anibaba), Gustavo Bou (63' Juan Agudelo)

SUBS UNUSED: Brad Knighton, Diego Fagundez, Scot Caldwell, Tajon Buchanan

SCORING SUMMARY

2' - NE - Juan Fernando Caicedo (Assisted by: Andrew Farrell)

70' - NYC - Jesus Medina (Assisted by: Anton Tinnerholm, Alex Ring)

90'+6' - NYC - Jesus Medina (Penalty)

DISCIPLINE SUMMARY

9' - NE - Antonio Milnar Delamea (RC - Denial Of Obvious Goal Scoring Opportunity)

10' - NYC - Maxi Moralez (YC - Unsporting Behavior)

22' - NYC - Sebastien Ibeagha (YC - Unsporting Behavior)

42' - NYC - Keaton Parks (YC - Unsporting Behavior)

71' - NE - Andrew Farrell (YC - Time Wasting)

74' - NE - Matt Turner (YC - Time Wasting)

81' - NE - Wilfried Zahibo (YC - Time Wasting)

88' - NYC - Alex Ring (YC - Unsporting Behavior)

89' - NE - Juan Agudelo (YC - Unsporting Behavior)

90'+6' - NE - Carles Gil (YC - Dissent)

STATS

Full Match Statistics: here

RECAP

NYCFC.com Match Recap: here

QUOTES

New York City FC Head Coach Doménec Torrent

Thoughts on today's match and Jesus Medina's performance...

"We've said many times that soccer belongs to the players and I believe in that. It's not the manager, it's not the coach, it's about the players. Right now they work very hard in the facilities and it's important that every single player is ready to play. We lose Heber, we have another player. I'm very happy, especially for Jesus [Medina] because before the game I said you have to be ready against New England."

On the tactical changes at halftime...

"I don't remember today how many times I changed the shape to try to score a goal. Even, Keaton played in the center back the last 15 minutes. That happened because right now they have confidence."

On the penalty decision for Jesus...

"When I say soccer belongs to the players, it's about that...If you have confidence in the moment, take the ball and shoot the ball."

New York City FC Forward Jesus Medina

On the decision to take the penalty...

"Maxi, asked me if I was confident and I told him I was. I needed it and I think he knows that, and so he gave me the opportunity and I'm happy I was able to get the winning goal."

On what the result means...

"It was a very important victory. We're conscious we can finish in first. We had to win at home, and we were able to do it. It was a hard-fought victory, but we're a few games away from our goal which is to finish in first place."

On the team's winning streak...

"We're aware we're playing well. We have a few games at home that are very important, so we have to continue to work hard and stay focused."

New York City FC Midfielder Alex Ring

On grinding out results...

"I think we've come back a couple of times and won the game or draw the games at least, it's just the kind of confidence knowing we have done that a couple of times that you have the quality to do it, just need to stay patient and believe in yourself."

On if he felt they would find the two goals...

"We slept once and got punished and I believe that was their only good chance on target, but luckily it was early, then we changed positions. We stayed patient, especially after red card a little bit, people think yeah they're going to win, but it's not that easy when you have seven bodies coming at you when you have the ball and shoot on target, but I am happy with the results."

New England Revolution Head Coach Bruce Arena

On the team's defensive performance...

"We did fine. Obviously, Matt Turner did well. We conceded some good chances and all, but we were put behind the eight ball. We were put in a difficult situation with the red card.

On whether the game was taken away from them or not...

"I don't know if you can say it was taken away, give NYCFC credit they worked really hard... they worked harder to win the game."

New England Revolution Goalkeeper Matt Turner

On having a good personal game today...

"We lost so it doesn't really make anything better. No silver linings. Had the chance to get three, had the chance to get a point, and we gave it all away. No silver linings really."

On the team playing down a man for so long

"We have been building performance after performance, we have been really growing as a group and really holding each other accountable on the field. Andrew Farrell, Jalil (Anibaba), (Michael) Mancienne when he came on, DeJuan (Jones), and Brandon (Bye) they put in an absolute shift, Willie (Zahibo), Carles (Gil), everyone that played just did an excellent job tonight. It's just really unfortunate that we came away with nothing.

On the end of NE unbeaten streak and playoff implications...

"We will see what the results around the league are, I know we were probably the first game this weekend. It is about the next one, we can't really dwell on this too much. We learned a lot about ourselves, and now we'll go to Orlando and expect ourselves to get three points.

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