Colorado Rapids head coach Pablo Mastroeni spoke with the media following the club's scoreless draw with the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday night at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. Here's what Mastroeni had to say regarding the draw...
On the backwards ball play throughout the game…
"We talk about it week in and week out, I think possession is an absolutely useless stat. The objective in football is to score goals. The objective when in possession of the ball is to go forward and obviously there’s times when you have to play backwards because there’s no space to go forwards.