#NYCvSKC Quotes: "It’s a frustrating night all around"

Sporting Kansas City Manager Peter Vermes

On how the team responded after going down a man…

Our guys fought. We gave a good effort in the game. The guys fought until the end so from that perspective it was good. Our guys fought. I’ll give them a lot of credit. It’s unfortunate about the red card. Obviously, it put us into a hole at that point. But the guys did a good job of fighting back to make it 2-1.

On the matchup with NYCFC…

They’re a very good team. They’re very organized and they defend really well. Their back four or five – whatever they’re playing – those guys defend really hard. They’re not an easy team to break down, especially on this field when it’s so small. That was a big…