July 20, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
FC Cincinnati News Release
Wednesday night at TQL Stadium, FC Cincinnati players and coaches felt that the match’s outcome, a 2-1 loss that saw The Orange and Blue take two red cards, was the amalgamation of frustrations boiling over.
Frustrations in performance, frustrations in outcomes, frustrations in how particular players were being treated and/or respected by opponents and officials alike-all like a supermassive star building and building until the weight of frustration collapsed on itself, and all that remained was the event horizon of a black hole.
“I got what I deserved,” Pat Noonan said Thursday morning of his two yellow cards for dissent that saw him sent off and suspended for this weekend’s match with the New York Red Bulls. “(There was) still plenty of game left that we could do more to perform better and get a result. But, you know, the frustrations were just how it was managed. And like I said, I got what I deserved.”
“Right now, where we’re struggling clearly is in the boxes. We’re not defending the box well enough, and we’re not finishing off plays that are good looks. But I say that (and) it’s been ongoing. We scored plenty of goals not too long ago. But the last two games, I think that’s the big difference.”
FC Cincinnati now will look to turn the page on all that, something they’ve been historically very good at while under Pat Noonan’s reign. While Noonan will not be on the sidelines for The Orange and Blue and his staff of assistants will step in for him for the 90 minutes on Saturday night, the chance to rectify some of the concerns with performance quickly is welcomed. It also comes as the final league match before the 2024 Leagues Cup break, so putting in a strong performance and earning a positive result sets up FCC well headed into the month-long league stoppage.
“You’ve got to get results at this stage of the season. What I would love to see is a strong performance,” Noonan added. “We talked about a response from the Charlotte game, where a lot of things didn’t look like us, and we didn’t perform well. There were stretches of the game (Wednesday) where we performed well, but like I said, we’re not getting the stuff in front of both goals right. So I think it would really give a boost of confidence for the group in the moment to go get a result.
“But I don’t want it to be about just survive and do anything we can to win a game. You try to do it in a certain way, and I think we’re capable of…
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