(overall thoughts on the win) “Well, of course (I’m) happy with the performance. The guys did a good job and we improved from the past game at home. We improved tactically. We improved our movements. We improved in spacing and trying to keep too many options. But, we faced a very talented team, a very good team, moving and passing the ball. But we continued doing our job. We continued expressing the way the Houston Dynamo express and we had the opportunity today to get three points, an important three points, at home. So, we continue moving forward.”

(on what he emphasized to make sure the start of the second half this week was better than last week) “We are trying to improve as a team, individually and collectively. We are a new team. We’re trying to build this team, so we had a week where we watched our game. We watched ourselves, our movements and we tried to improve in the way we move tactically, defensively, and offensively also. So we fixed those problems and we looked much better. More solid and more stable. But, still, we have a lot of things to get better on. Individually, we are getting better, but collectively, we have to continue working. This is a weekly improvement process for us.”

(on the team’s confidence and whether they can get too confident) “I hope we never get too confident. Confident is good, but too confident is not good. And I wouldn’t say ‘confident,’ I’d say ‘comfortable.’ We cannot get comfortable. Because when we get comfortable, our tendency is to relax. And that’s what happened the last five minutes of the game. When they [Columbus Crew SC] got the red card, we stopped being the Houston Dynamo and we started to relax. And we stopped being the way we are – working hard, tough, concentrated, focused – and we gave up two opportunities with ten men. So, that’s proof that if we get too comfortable, we’re going to suffer. We need to learn that lesson and that’s something that worries me and I’ve expressed that to the players in the locker room already, so we need to work on that if we want to be sure that we finish the games. We cannot give up goals like that.”

(on whether he was concerned that the team only had seven shots) “We scored three goals, am I right? Listen, as soon as we score goals, that’s what’s most important. You can have 35 shots and zero goals. That would be bad. For me, the most important thing is that the guys are sharp, are finishing. And the scored three goals, that’s something positive. The sad part is that we allowed that goal in the end. It was offsides; yes, it was offsides, but, we stopped working. We stopped doing our job. Because if we had done our job, we may have scored another one. That’s why we continue attacking and instead of looking for defenders, we look for forwards to bring fresh legs and an attacking mentality. We did it, but it wasn’t as organized and we have to learn from that moment.”

(on the biggest challenge that he’s faced since taking over as head coach of the Dynamo) “We’ve had a lot of challenges. Right now, the biggest challenge for us is to keep working and believing in what we do. We are building a new team and this team has to believe in what we do every day. We have to reinforce that throughout the week. We have to continue working in the same way, and we cannot get comfortable. That’s the challenge that we have in front of us. And you take one game at a time. At this point, at home we have done the job. Now let’s see what’s going to happen with the away game, because now we have the first test away against a very, very tough team [Portland Timbers], so we’re going to face that and we’re going to continue working and moving forward. But we cannot rest. This is going to be day by day, pushing.”

(sobre el primer ajuste del partido) “En el primer tiempo, hubo una o dos jugadas que hicimos donde Erick (Torres) - despues del gol – Erick le salio a presionar al arquero muy arriba, y ellos salieron jugando. Entonces le dije