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REST WAS GOOD FOR BONO

Goalkeeper Alex Bono said he wasn’t meeting his own standards in recent games, so the break was good for him. He responded with a strong effort against the Galaxy, making a number of timely saves.

Bono called the game “a step in the right direction” for the team as a whole.

Having won so often last year, the team remains confident.

“Until we are mathematically eliminated we are going to believe and play like we have a chance,” Bono said.

“We are going to take it one game at a time … Until the end no matter what. We are doing this together, we’re doing it as group and we are going to fight right until the very end.”

BEST LAID PLANS …

Vanney lamented having to rejig his lineup decisions when veteran Drew Moor was unable to suit up due to a calf injury.

“We spent 10 days preparing this game a certain way, and two days ago Drew in training comes up with a calf, we were hopeful that it would be nothing and he would recover but he didn’t think he could go,” Vanney said.

“It’s about nine days of preparation to play a certain way and then all of a sudden it switched and that’s how the season has been. But the guys managed it well, enough to get up to 3-0 but as the game progressed we started to get, I mean our reference points started to get a little loose. We needed to get Michael back in to create a natural 2 vs 1, two centre-backs around Ibra, have Michael in front, clear some things up that way. Once we settled in and started getting our connections I think we started to control the game again.” Bradley spent much of the early going filling in at the centre of the defence.