#HOUvSKC Quotes: "We couldn't close the game out unfortunately"

Sporting Kansas City Manager Peter Vermes

Thoughts on the match...

I thought for 60 minutes of the game, we were pretty organized. Obviously, we got the goal and that took a little pressure off. I would state that we started to probably get a little tired. I tried to make some subs. I tried to change the team around. We went to five in the back to try to deal with (Houston's attack). We knew what was going to happen. We knew they were going to come forward with a lot of people. We couldn't close the game out unfortunately.

On the play of Amadou Dia...

On that first goal, he did get drawn inside. I thought for the majority of the game though he was pretty good defensively against those guys. I…