SEATTLE REIGN FC vs. RACING LOUISVILLE FC POSTGAME QUOTES
Sunday, June 23, 2024 • Lumen Field • Seattle, WA
Seattle Reign FC Head Coach Laura Harvey
On her overall thoughts on the match:
“I’m going to repeat myself, not enough quality. That’s it.”
On Ryanne Brown getting her second consecutive start:
“Yeah, I thought she did well last game. I thought she did well today, until she had to come off. I think she has trained really hard and earned this opportunity and she’s taken it and played really well and unfortunately, had to come off today with a little hamstring.”
On what Louisville did that caused them trouble:
“Worked hard, kept going, that’s about it. I think the rest of it was a story of our season of us not showing enough quality in the moments that we need it.”
Seattle Reign FC Midfielder Jess Fishlock and Defender Sofia Huerta
On her overall thoughts on the match:
Sofia Huerta: “I mean, it’s disappointing. I think we have to get points when we can get them. I felt like we should have gotten three points last weekend versus Portland and then I’m feeling the same way leaving this game. They go down a man – of course, if they’re going to score, it’s going to be on a set piece. I think we lacked a little bit of focus in certain moments. We probably could have won the game, scored a couple of more goals in the first and second half. So yeah, I feel really disappointed. Obviously, trying not to be too down about it because we have to move forward and continue to put in the work and try to get points, but it feels like a major loss getting a point at home.”
On what happened during the goal they conceded:
Jess Fishlock: “I think we just switched off – we weren’t ready. They obviously knew that probably the only way they were going to score a goal was probably from a set play of some kind and I think it took us too long to set up. We weren’t tracking our runners. We didn’t win first and second ball. I mean, it was everything that you wouldn’t want to happen happened and kind of to Sof’s side, I think when the game is kind of like this, you have to really – it’s easy to switch off in those moments because you do have so much of the ball and you just have so much moments to attack all the time, you can end up losing a little bit of focus in those kind of really important moments. So yeah, extremely frustrating today, given, I believe, some of our play was great. We created a number of chances to score more than one goal and yeah, it sucks. I mean, every time I come and do press conference, I go, ‘We’re so close and we’re so close and we’re so close,’ but every week, it stays at being so close and we can’t quite get over the line. We really have to have a look at why that is.”
On Bethany Balcer and what she brings to the club:
Jess Fishlock: “She has a great story, Beth, and obviously has grown here and I think it’s so great that she’s been here maybe five or six years now, got 100 games here already, which speaks a lot for how valued she is – always is scoring goals. Every season, you’re guaranteed goals from Boats (Bethany Balcer) as well and that’s no easy feat in this league. There’s not really enough words I can use to describe Boats and how much we value her here at the Reign. I know that she loves this club as much as we love her and I hope she does prolong her career here for as long as she feels its value because we’d love to be able to keep the journey and the story of players being able to get rooted here and make a home here and be in the community. I think that’s something that is very special about this club. It goes both ways – we’ve got to treat these players right, we’ve got to do the right things, we’ve got to make sure they do want to be here and then when they’re here, they’re going to give back, like Boats gives back all the time, every day. So yeah, super stoked for Boats, love her to death.”