Midfielders Quotes

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold. - Tiffeny Milbrett

With this system we're playing, we're expecting that we're going to have to sub quite a bit, especially with the forwards and midfielders because they're playing the full field. They're playing up-and-down. - Bob Derr

With the graduation of so many key midfielders, there is no doubt we will be young... However, what we lack in experience we more than make up for in talent. We will call on many younger players to take on the responsibility of building our attack this season. - Anne Moore

When people look at the shutouts and the low number of goals allowed, they say 'the keeper is amazing,' ... It's really the defense and midfielders keeping the ball away from me. When you don't have to do anything, you look good. - Kim Parker

We're pretty solid again. In fact, we might be a little better than last year. Our midfielders and our forwards are awesome. - Jim Rines

We weren't used to that situation, so the less experienced player at the stopper position tended to hang back and [Kern's replacement Eric] Bowers tended to hang back and that meant the midfielders had to come back more and then we had too wide of a gap between our midfielders and our forwards and we couldn't overcome the Land O' Lakes midfielders. So we played good defense. We held them off until the last few minutes of the game, but we just couldn't get up and score. - Ed McComiskey

We want to get our passing game going early. We want to control things to show we can move the ball up field. It's all about creating scoring chances, especially when our midfielders can get involved. - Brooks Hickman

We played them pretty even in the second half. We were playing defensive against them, but we made a couple of mistakes in the first half. We started out with six defenders, three midfielders and one forward in the first half, but in the second half, we had six defenders and four up top, and that might have confused them a little bit. But they're just so outstanding. They're definitely the top team that we've faced so far. - Kyle Smith

We played an excellent game across the board... The forwards and midfielders worked very well together. The defense did a great job of containing Madison Central. Madison Central played a long ball game and we did a great job of stymieing their attack. - Michael Lauer

We knew that they would be looking to pull the ball back for the midfielders to hit. We'd worked on that. - John Toshack