QUOTE SHEET
SACRAMENTO REPUBLIC FC 4-1 REAL SALT LAKE
FOURTH ROUND; LAMAR HUNT U.S. OPEN CUP
JUNE 14, 2017; SACRAMENTO, CALIF.; PAPA MURPHY’S PARK
Real Sale Lake
Head Coach Mike Petke
On the young lineup:
“The rationale behind the lineup is that we have a very good USL side so they deserved to play and we have some guys who are looking for minutes and we also have a big game on the weekend. So the rationale was to put out a combination between first-team players like we did and Monarchs players who have earned that right. And how do I think they did? We lost 4-1. So they weren’t up for it like Sacramento was. We talked all week about how this is Sacramento’s World Cup. We have to match them there. We talked about specifics and it played out the way we said we don’t want it to play out.”
On bright spots:
“There were a lot of questions answered for me tonight regarding some players. I’m not going to share that publicly, but there are certainly some questions both good and bad that were answered today.”
On moving forward:
“It’s continuing to implement what we want and make some adjustments and then from there look to finish strong and then hopefully we make it to the playoffs this year and go far and start it from scratch next year exactly how we want it to go.”
On Sacramento:
“Sacramento is a great environment here. Congratulations to them. They deserved it today.”
