Chivas USA-Earthquakes Postgame
Highlights
Notable: Chivas USA are undefeated in their last six games.
But they also haven't scored more than two goals in a game all season long.
Quotable:
"I tried to warn the group (that) there is no easy games. I don't think we took them lightly tonight," said Chivas USA Coach Preki on facing the lowly Earthquakes. "The game against New York, the game against San Jose tonight might haunt us in the end in the standings."
Here's Sacha Kljestan on Chivas USA's lack of proficiency on scoring from set pieces:
"We've never been a really good set piece team. Earlier in the season we had a goal off a corner kick or something, but I don't think we've ever been a good team on set pieces. Defensively I think we've been really good this year on set pieces and tonight we gave up two goals on set pieces so it's disappointing. But I don't know what it is.
And finally, here's Kljestan on the significance of the result:
"We should have been at 47 points tonight and alone in first place, but there's nothing you can do now, you've just got to move on. We still have games in hand. We still hold the keys to our own destiny.
About 100 Percent Soccer
Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005 for the Daily News, Daily Breeze and other Los Angeles area newspapers. The blog of the same name began in 2007. A native of England, he began writing about soccer in the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat in the stands for one in the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer and is married to a long-suffering soccer widow. Join Nick on FaceBook and follow him on Twitter.
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