Sporting Kansas City Manager Peter Vermes
Thoughts on the team’s performance prior to the red card…
I thought we were pretty good actually. I am not even sure it’s a penalty. Red card? No chance. The player is goal side. I have no idea how it becomes a penalty at that point. He recovers on the player I don't know how to go from a situation where you give the penalty, the guy's goal side and then you also give a red card. I don't know. It definitely changed the outcome of the game.
On the team’s response after the red card…
Again, when you're playing a man down, it's never an easy situation especially when they went up 2-0 at that point. But we defended well and we tried our chances to counter quite a few times. I know 100% there's a penalty on Daniel (Salloi) that doesn't get called. I'm shocked. The whole play finished and it went out for a goal kick. I'm surprised that the play was not reviewed. Obviously, it wasn't because you would hold the game for just a moment, but obviously they felt, I don't know, that it didn't need to be reviewed. But it's 100% a penalty. I don't know how it's not. But that's their decision that they made.
On how the team can turn things around…
I think the guys had a good mindset going into the game. I really do. Obviously, when you're in a situation, you doubt yourself a little bit. I thought the mindset was actually really good. Right now, some things just aren't going our way. We're in the game. We're playing away from home obviously, but then getting the red card change things. I do know this. The guys didn't walk into the game feeling sorry for themselves and that's a good thing. We have got to try to keep that mentality. You can turn things around, and I believe that these guys can.
