COLORADO RAPIDS 1, TORONTO FC 0
COLORADO RAPIDS HEAD COACH FERNANDO CLAVIJO
On the game:
"It seems like we keep repeating the same thing every week. We were playing with 10 players and really put ourselves in the hole. The team kept fighting, playing and we managed to get the three points. (When we went down two men) I was very concerned because we had a couple of chances to put them away. Jovan forced a great save from the goalkeeper for one of them. We need to put those games away, even with 10 men, and we are capable of doing that."
COLORADO RAPIDS MIDFIELDER PABLO MASTROENI
On the playoff scene:
"We are still in it and we are still battling. We need to go to Chivas and get a result. We have a good team and we have great players. We are fighters; we are not going to go down easy. Hopefully we can put something together and create some luck."
COLORADO RAPIDS DEFENDER KOSUKE KIMURA
On the game:
"It was definitely hard for our team. Everybody brought it, everyone on the field, on the bench and on the staff. We pulled together for 90 minutes. I was trying to not think too much or be too nervous. I tried to stay calm and confident."
TORONTO FC HEAD COACH MO JOHNSTON
On the game:
"When it was 0-0 and 11 vs. 11 on the field we were fine. Against 10 men we were winning 90 percent of the balls. We were not getting the ball wide enough, but we created a couple of chance we should have scored off of. Our two strikers were very poor tonight. And when your strikers are off form, you don't score goals. This is why this team has not scored goals as of late, it's our strike force."
TORONTO FC MIDFIELDER MAURICE EDU
On the TFC attack:
"They sat in a lot in the second half and congested the middle, so it was had to play balls forward because of that. We tried to get it wide and create from outside. Things just didn't click. At the end of the day we just couldn't execute."
TORONTO FC DEFENDER TODD DUNIVANT
On the game:
"You can say what you want about the penalty call, but we had plenty of time to make it up. We were disappointed in our overall energy level. It was a slow game to begin with, and when we needed to pick it up we didn't. It's disappointing. I think we needed to press a bit more and be a bit more lively. We sat back a little too much and didn't put them under pressure."
