#team-intensity

#team-intensity

We can't afford to let our intensity drop off. The lads know that, and we're training accordingly. We're not allowing ourselves to think that 99% will be enough to get us what we're aiming for.

when you have more players with different characteristics, especially with Cunha or Ben [Sesko], you have more options to score goals, especially against low blocks where there's no space. But that is just an excuse, we have players on the pitch, and we could lose the game but with a different intensity, the understanding of the moment when the other team fight each other and get the red card. And I think we didn't understand the moments of the game during the 90 minutes.

"Any time you go to Seattle, you're in for a battle. We talk a lot about intensity being the starting point for us, so that's definitely going to have to be the case."