\n Orlando Pride Head Coach Seb Hines<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst of all, I just want to thank the fans, they were terrific tonight.\u00a0They were really loud, hostile, and that\u2019s what we need every week.\u00a0I apologize for the performance; they\u00a0spend\u00a0their hard-earned money\u00a0to come\u00a0out and\u00a0support\u00a0us\u00a0and that performance today\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0good enough from everyone, barring the last five\u00a0to\u00a0ten minutes. A team like Louisville, who are\u00a0very aggressive, they\u00a0like to put pressure on, and we\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0execute the best that we could have. We were close in moments, but close right now\u00a0isn\u2019t\u00a0enough to get us three points. We need to reflect.\u00a0We\u00a0need to be better and turn this around.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n
On\u00a0team\u2019s struggles after conceding first <\/p>\n
\u201cFirst of all, you don’t want to concede. That’s the easiest way. It’s never due to a lack of effort. Things just aren’t going in our favor,\u00a0whether it’s a call or a ball or it hits the post or a crossbar, like it’s just not falling for us right now,but the belief is still there. We have to keep going. We have to keep trying, not get too out of discipline either. I think at moments we lost a little bit of discipline because we were pushing. If you get that next goal, it gives you a foundation. It allows you to push on and gets the crowd off their feet and start getting excited. It can be intimidating in this environment, when the fans are involved as well. When you go down, that next goal is so important and if the other team gets it then it becomes an even bigger mountain to climb.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n Orlando Pride Defender Kerry Abello<\/p>\n
\u201cI said to the team after the game, I was really proud of our fight in the last 20 minutes or so. Even two goals down, three goals down, we didn\u2019t stop pushing, but that needs to be who we are from the first minute, and it wasn\u2019ttoday. I think we were just behind it. We played into their hands a bit. The goals are Louisville\u2019s game: set pieces, long balls and run after it. They\u2019re tall, they\u2019re athletic and we didn\u2019t manage that well today. We weren\u2019t on the front foot, but I\u2019m really proud of the way we fought back, regardless of the scoreline.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\u201cI wish that was the winner and not what it was, but I was just trying to make something happen. I knew that we needed a little bit of life, and honestly, the moment the ball was being passed\u00a0to me I saw that I had space, and before I even got it, I was like, I know I\u2019m going to touch it and shoot and pick out the top corner, and it came off today. But again, I wish that was the winner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando Pride Head Coach Seb Hines \u201cFirst of all, I just want to thank the fans, they were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9946,115,139,141,140,3968,148308,96736],"class_list":["post-365981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-kerry-abello","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-pride","tag-orlvslou-08-08-2026","tag-they-said-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}