CHESTER, PA. -- LA Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena spoke to reporters following the Galaxy's 2-2 draw with the Philadelphia Union on Wednesday.
Arena's comments are below:
On the result of the game
We’ll take the point, but you know when we get the second goal early in the second half, I thought we had to close the game down. Obviously, there was a lot of time left, and we didn’t do a good job of that and probably could have done a better job on that second goal. But I thought Philadelphia played well and you can see that they were a little bit more rested than us and that makes a difference. We changed six players from our game on Sunday so I give our guys credit to deal with the travel and getting the point and playing against a rested team. Overall, I think we have to be pleased to leave with a point.
On this Philly team as oppose to the old one
Well, I’ll be honest with you, I haven’t spent any time evaluating the Philly team, so I can’t give you an assessment, I'll let their coach give you that. They are a good team. I’m not spending a whole lot of time analyzing their team, I'm a little bit more concerned with ours.
On if he planned to exploit the flanks and if that led to both Galaxy goals:
No, just playing soccer, you know. They did a good job holding their team in; I think their back line pushes in so there is a little bit more space out in the flanks in the last third of the field. But just you take what they give you, both teams, as you can see, Philadelphia in the second half; they utilized the flanks quite well also. But nothing really by design, but yeah two good goals by our team tonight.
On the Giovani sideline situation
The defender cleated him and went through his cleat. He was bleeding, there was blood on his shoe. All these important things, we're worried about spreading diseases during the game, but there was a little blood on his shoe, so he had to come off.
On Gyasi’s performance
Gyasi is playing well; I wish we could have kept him up top more in the second half. Obviously, we made a change in the second half, and he played very well. I know Gyasi is a team player; he’s good when he is needed with our team, and he is getting better and better every game.
On the two goals, the team scored
It was a real good goal; it was a great finish by Robbie and I thought Magee’s goal was a good goal, there was some accommodation play with Dos Santos and Gerrard, and we were able to finish. We scored some pretty big goals.
