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Mon, Nov 2nd 2009, 10:55

Galaxy get 2-2 draw vs Chivas in first playoff leg

On his overall thoughts on the game:

“I think we felt really good about were we we’re at going into halftime and then we started poorly in the second half, made a bad mistake and we let them back in the game. And that put some pressure on us. We we’re lucky not to get scored in that time. Toward the end, I thought we did good job of trying to get that third goal. It’s going to be a real home game next week and I think we are happy with were we are at.”

On the game’s physical nature:

“It’s normal. It’s normal for the playoffs and it’s normal for games versus them. I expect the same next weekend.”

On his goal:

“Very weird. He [Maicon Santos] popped it up and I just kind of got next to [Carey] Talley. [The ball] kind of bounced around. I just tried to get a toe on it and it went through Zach’s legs.”

On next weekend’s second game:

“If you told us before the year that we would have one game, a real home game against Chivas USA to advance to the Conference Finals, we’d take that in a heartbeat.”