SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES HEAD COACH DOMINIC KINNEAR
On whether he was happy with the performance:
“Yes. It helped to get the early goal. I think it gave us a little bit of belief and some confidence. I thought we played well, broke well, created some good chances. Obviously, we relied on David Bingham at times tonight, he pulled us out of some tough situations. It’s our first road win of the year. I think it’s the first time the Quakes have won in Vancouver, which is always a tough place to play. So to sit here and come out with three points and watch the way the team played, really happy and looking forward to the next one.”
On what his game plan was tonight and why it worked so well:
“Well, I wouldn’t give myself that much credit. No, it was good to get a goal off a set piece. I thought Quincy Amarikwa had a real strong game, up until the substitution, and really held the ball up well for us. When he does that, he brings people into play. I thought we defended their set pieces pretty well until the very end. But overall, I just thought the guys, our possession was good, our movement was good, we created some good chances. I thought the amount of work we put in tonight was well deserved to get the win.”
On what they need to do to get into playoff position:
“We’re at seven wins. Who knows what number it is because a couple of teams in the West are running away with it, so we’re all kind of looking for maybe four, five, and six. Maybe four is a bit of a stretch because LA is quite high up. It is always our intent to get road wins. We didn’t want to come in with no road wins this late in the season, it’s just the way it went. But we did pick up a good number of draws on the road, which gave us some points and doesn’t let other teams get three, especially the conference games. For us, it’s just a matter of staying healthy. We play three games in the next eight-to-ten-day period, so it’s going to be difficult. We have two games at home, hopefully we can get that and go to Columbus with some confidence.”
SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES GOALKEEPER DAVID BINGHAM
On tonight’s win:
“Most important thing, we needed to get those three points to be sitting better on the table and we were hoping to do that tonight. There are a few things we need to work on, but overall it was a great win for us.”
On winning in Vancouver for the first time:
“It’s great, I don’t think it could have come at a better time for us too, so that’s the main thing for us right now, we needed to come away with some points on the road games and at home we’ve got to hold strong like we’ve been doing.”
On conceding the late goal:
“I hate giving up goals and I especially don’t like it when they’re given up in the last minutes of the game, that’s something we need to tidy up on. If we can tidy up on that, we’re an extremely good team and people underestimate us and we like it like that”
On what the win does for the team’s playoff hopes:
“It’s a good win on the road, it’s even better it’s a Western Conference opponent. There’s so much soccer to be played for the rest of the year, so this is a great win but at the end of the day we have a lot of games left and we have to keep improving to make it a very competitive conference.”
SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES MIDFIELDER SIMON DAWKINS
On tonight’s win:
“It’s good to get the win. It gives us confidence going into the last games. Now, we got that away win. We can go to other places now and do the same thing.”
On how the team won:
“We passed the ball and moved well. When we do that, we’re a good team. We’ve shown that this season in glimpses. We need to find that consistency again. This is a good start and hopefully we win next week as well.”
