CARSON, Calif. -- LA Galaxy head coach Curt Onalfo spoke after the Galaxy's 2-2 draw with the Chicago Fire.
On the team’s response in the second half:
“We became a team tonight. That’s the Galaxy team that you’ll see moving forward. I think it was a galvanizing moment for our group. We’ve been through a lot already and it was a pretty darn good second half. I told them at half-time that I felt like if we just got one goal, the second would come and we’d have an opportunity to turn this into possibly three points but at a minimum we’re walking out of here with one. And that’s what we did.”
On his decision to substitute Dave Romney for Jelle Van Damme in the first half:
“I expect our players to be right from minute one. I’m the leader of the team and if guys aren’t…I’m the leader of the team and I have to make substitutions to get our group to where it needs to be. I brought in Dave and he did a solid job and we didn’t concede anymore and it ended up creating a lot of chances.”
On João Pedro’s performance:
“João Pedro continues to adapt to the league and get better. I thought he worked extremely hard and won a lot of balls and passed well. I thought he had a very good performance. You could see he fatigued a little at the end because he put so much into it.”
On what was off about Jelle Van Damme’s performance:
“We conceded two goals early on and I wanted to make sure that didn’t happen moving forward.”
On an update for Jermaine Jones:
“We don’t yet have one. We know it’s his knee and he’ll get some imaging done to see where it is.”
On Giovani dos Santos scoring and how important it is for him:
“It’s important. I think you saw Ema being dangerous, you saw Romain being dangerous, Gio being dangerous, Gyasi being dangerous and those are four very good attacking players. It was good for him to put the ball in the back of the net and I think he’s just going to continue to get better.”
