\n Orlando City Interim Head Coach Mart\u00edn Perelman<\/p>\n
\u201cVery happy on the victory. The way the guys performed today,\u00a0I\u00a0think it\u00a0was amazing.\u00a0It was a\u00a0really good\u00a0start to the second part of the season, so\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0so happy.\u00a0Again, for the performance, for the\u00a0effectivity, for the clean sheet, for many things, and we\u00a0hope\u00a0we can keep and\u00a0maintain\u00a0this level\u00a0and these results.\u201d <\/p>\n
On\u00a0Antoine Griezmann\u2019s\u00a0impact <\/p>\n
\u201cWell,\u00a0[Antoine Griezmann],\u00a0as I always say when\u00a0somebody asks me about him,\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0not going to discover anything about him as a player\u2014everybody knows how special he is on the field. What I can tell you is that off the field,\u00a0it’s\u00a0amazing the way his energy\u2014he\u2019s\u00a0so\u00a0humble,\u00a0he brings good energy to all of us.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0a pleasure and an honor, not only for me, but everyone in Orlando, to share\u00a0on a daily basis\u00a0with him.\u201d <\/p>\n
On\u00a0takeaways\u00a0from\u00a0the team\u2019s performance <\/p>\n
\u201cI think we came to a very difficult scenario against a very difficult team that we respect. We knew it was going to be tough, and we knew we would not only need a good plan and a good preparation, but also a lot of energy and character. And being honest, our players did an amazing job in terms of level of activation, energy, personality to play, to defend. I really like the way the team defended. I think maybe that\u2019s something I would highlight in terms of performance, but also the way we played. I think it was overall a good performance from the team.\u201d <\/p>\n
\n Orlando City\u00a0Goalkeeper Maxime Cr\u00e9peau<\/p>\n
*On the presence of Antoine Griezmann <\/p>\n
“Antoine [Griezmann] is such a gentleman. On and off the field, he\u2019s been somebody that is fantastic for the Club, somebody who is very dedicated to the system and you can see his quality. He relieves us a lot on the ball, to find some spaces and to keep the ball, and obviously you saw his quality on the finish. He doesn\u2019t need a couple of chances, that\u2019s why he\u2019s such\u00a0a\u00a0great player.\u00a0He\u2019s\u00a0been fantastic\u00a0in our locker room and within our entourage.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0a blessing to have him.\u201d <\/p>\n
On\u00a0the team\u2019s focus during the break from play <\/p>\n
\u201cCredit to everybody,\u00a0staff\u00a0and players, who have put so many hours into the work, to treat this mini preseason, basically, to\u00a0start the second semester of the season. Honestly, there has been tremendous work from every single person at the Club. This is just\u00a090 minutes\u00a0to reward ourselves for that work. Even though I personally was away, I saw and knew how\u00a0much\u00a0hard work\u00a0the Club was putting in at the training facility, so\u00a0very happy\u00a0for everybody tonight.\u201d <\/p>\n
On\u00a0the team getting is first MLS clean sheet this season <\/p>\n
\u201cFirst, it feels great, as you can imagine. The dedication from every single player to defend outside our box was something that we took very seriously during the preparation. Even towards the end of the first half of the\u00a0season,\u00a0we were getting close to those clean sheets, but there was always that one play that we\u00a0couldn\u2019t\u00a0defend and that we\u00a0couldn\u2019t\u00a0pull it off.\u00a0So\u00a0to not concede tonight is something amazing, and we mentioned it in the locker room that\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0something that this group is taking pride in.\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0very happy\u00a0for everybody, from\u00a0our\u00a0number nine to me,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0a collective effort and\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0been highlighted in the locker room that the victory is important, but the clean sheet is as well.\u201d*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando City Interim Head Coach Mart\u00edn Perelman \u201cVery happy on the victory. The way the guys performed today,\u00a0I\u00a0think…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[81133,162789,100,135353,88,90,89,162786,164010],"class_list":["post-409186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-matchday","tag-maxime-crepeau","tag-news","tag-orlando-city","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sjvsorl-07-22-2026","tag-they-said-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}