Quotes: LA 1, KC 1

LA GALAXY 1, KANSAS CITY WIZARDS 1


LA GALAXY HEAD COACH BRUCE ARENA

On the match:

"I thought we played really well. We just continue to get better and better. I am pretty pleased with the team obviously to get a point against a good team. Our guys made a lot of progress. But there has been certainly a lot of criticism in the last games and it is the poor finishing. We certainly had a chance to walk away with three points, we created good opportunities that we didn't convert, but in every face of the game we've gotten better."


On not having Landon Donovan next weekend:

"You lose players all the time, I think we have guys who are able to step up. You can look it in two ways, we only won one game with Landon, and we only lost one game with Landon, but I really think our players can deal with the loss of Landon in a right way. Edson Buddle could be a likely choice to replace Landon."


On Berhalter's ejection:

"To me, it is not a red card. I saw a bunch of fouls that I didn't agree with. It is what it is, it is the call the referee made. Our forwards were fouled very frequently and we got a few favorable calls. Having said that, it is part of the game, but coming back in the game, playing 10 players, with a tie it surely beats losing."


LA GALAXY FORWARD LANDON DONOVAN

On the game:

"At the end of the day, we keep showing that we have a lot of character, and tonight we showed we were a good team. We were just unfortunate not to win the game."


On the Galaxy goal:

"Dema did a good a job, he intercepted a ball, then he got it to me quickly, which was good. I had space to run at them and Edson made a good run wide. I wanted to put it in front of him and give him some time to get there and he did a great job hitting it."


LA GALAXY MIDFIELDER CHRIS KLEIN

On his shot saved by Hartman:

"I had a pretty god view at it and I thought it was going in but give him credit he made a good save and that is one of the reasons that is why he has been around for so long."


On the team's character:

"I wish we quit having to show the character of this team. For stretches we played very well and then obviously you go a man down you got to man up and see what your made of and when you go a goal down and you come back it is good for us we have to start getting three points at home you look back at the game and see as three points lost and at the end of the day when you're a man down and a goal down we will take the result."


LA GALAXY FORWARD EDSON BUDDLE

On his goal:

"I saw Dema win the ball and he had Landon next to him so he touched it to Landon to put him in. I just turned and ran into the open space behind the defense and Landon played the ball early to spring me. He could have went himself, but I just gave him an option out wide and he played me in."


On his first goal of the season:

"It feels good. The injuries have been tough but I feel good now and I knew that if an opportunity came that I was going to be able to finish it."


KANSAS CITY WIZARDS HEAD COACH CURT ONALFO

On the game:

"It is disappointing when you are winning the game 1-0, and in the next play you have to walk away without the three points. We were really quiet in the locker room, it seemed like a loss to us."


On Kevin Hartman's performance:

"Kevin has gotten better in the past three years. ... Kevin did a great job with communicating with our backline, and by blocking some critical shots."


KANSAS CITY WIZARDS MIDFIELDER DAVY ARNAUD

On the game:

"When [Galaxy] went to 10 men, we needed to get after the game, and go get the winning goal, which we did. It was unfortunate that we let one in ... in the last couple of minutes, but we should've come away with the three points."


KANSAS CITY WIZARDS GOALKEEPER KEVIN HARTMAN

On playing a man up for 30 minutes:

"When you have one more man, there is a rush that you hopefully can possess the ball a little more because obviously they are a man down. We need to continue to try to find ways to move the balls in the outside, and that's the best to break [a defense] down. And once we were up 1-nil, I think we needed to react better. We let the win get away and it's unfortunate."