Chivas USA Post-Game

The excuses:
Preki:

"Very difficult to lose like this. The game should have been over in the first half, we had so many opportunities, penalty kick. Don't understand why the goalkeeper wasn't sent off after pulling Roberto (Nurse) down (on the penalty kick decision). As far as I know the rule says last guy - red card. Instead of that in the beginning of the second half we get a soft goal and then (Jonathan) Bornstein a red card against us. ... Very, very, very disappointing and we had difficulties dealing with the referees and I don't want to complain about the referees, it's difficult when we go outside our country, but you would think when we play here we would at least get an even call. Right now we can't catch a break."

On Chivas USA's inability to score:

"Right now we have an incredibly tough time finding the net. Finally we squeezed one in tonight. We've got to find a way to score goals."

On where the game was lost:

"I think the game was lost first of all, we lost down in Panama. ... We should have won this game by four or five goals. I wish them good luck in the next round, but even with the lineup and the injuries that we have we should have scored four or five goals tonight and the game is over. At the moment we're just having a tough time scoring goals and in the last I would say seven games we've scored four or five goals and that's not good enough, I'm sorry. ... we're creating chances, it doesn't really matter unless you put them in the goal."

On Subbing Sacha Klejstan:

"I don't think he was good. I thought he was already with the national team or wherever he was because tomorrow he's leaving. I don't think he was playing good so nobody is untouchable.

Sacha Klejstan on his poor game:

"I didn't do my best in order to help the team win tonight and so it's very disappointing and I feel very bad for the rest of the guys who fought their asses off tonight."

Goalscorer Roberto Nurse on the result:

"We are really disappointed with this result. We should have won this game. We couldn't do it. I'm a little bit happy because finally I could score, but it wasn't enough."

Game story.