“If you think about the expectations we had for the playoffs, we evidently fell too short,” head coach Gerardo Martino said postmatch, shortly after saying this season can’t be considered a success for the club.
“They’re sad, as they should be,” Tata responded when asked about the mood of his players in the locker room. “As it should be when there’s so much expectation and the team can’t meet it. In the final stretch of the year we’d gotten used to achieving our objectives, and we weren’t able to achieve the most important one.”
Goalkeeper Drake Callender echoed Martino’s feelings of disappointment.
“It sucks, it hurts. We wanted to give more to the fans who’ve supported us all year long. This will definitely stick with me,” Callender said.
“… I think it’s tough to kind of find words for the group. I think we all expected more of ourselves and we felt like this was a game we could’ve won and we didn’t.”
