HOUSTON DYNAMO HEAD COACH DOMINIC KINNEAR
“I’m very happy, great turn around from last week, the guys were happy. We had a red card go in our favor, and we took advantage of it. We created a lot of chances, and I’m happy for the guys to come out with a shutout. Any time the team wins, you’re happy for all the guys who are involved.”
On Sammy Appiah
“Appiah showed some great energy, I’m very happy for him.”
On the aggressiveness of the game
“I think teams, whether it’s the first game, the fifth, the sixth, there’s valuable points to be had out there, and that’s why it’s competitive. I don’t think it was too bad, though. I don’t think there were any cheap shots.”
On playing against ten men
“It’s a little bit easier playing against ten men.”
On the shutout
“Anytime you get a shutout, the whole of the guys get credit for the shutout.”
DYNAMO MIDFIELDER SAMMY APPIAH
“I wanted to thank everybody for accepting me. The coaches have been really supportive. And I fit in, so I wanted to thank everyone for such a great opportunity and thank them for having me here.”
DYNAMO DEFENDER MIKE CHABALA
“I’m proud and happy for [Appiah], and hopefully that momentum carries on into Wednesday. He’s a good player.”
“Every game is difficult because every team comes here trying to get their best games against us. It’s important that we match them head on and let the football start.
It’s important for everyone to take care of their bodies. We’ve gotta make sure we keep climbing, get on a good little run here and make sure we take care of ourselves from here on in.”
On the coming game against FC Dallas
“They’re another opponent, we’ll look at their last game, see what they’re doing, come up with who’s playing and make sure we come up with a good game plan and come up with a good result.”
KANSAS CITY WIZARDS MANAGER PETER VERMES
On playing down a man
“It’s not easy. What I would say is we finished off the half still being a man down and being down a goal and that was our chance to come back in at halftime and put something together for the second half. The opportunity was that we were going to try and come out and get a goal and obviously when you do that you open yourself up to a second goal and unfortunately that’s what happened.”
On the referees
“I thought there were calls early on that the referee could have made that he didn’t. The game was pretty physical to begin with. If you miss those calls early on and then you start going one way or the other, then the game gets to where it was. It is what it is.”
KANSAS CITY WIZARDS MIDFIELDER DAVY ARNAUD
“I thought up until the red card the game was pretty even. They got the first goal and had a couple decent looks but at the same time we had a couple real decent chances.”
KANSAS CITY WIZARDS GOALKEEPER JIMMY NIELSEN
“We created a couple good chances but not sharp enough to score the goals. When we had a man sent off 1-0 down it’s very difficult and today even if we had 10 men, we can expect a little more from us. It was not a good performance from our team today. Sometimes you have these games where the things don’t go your way and this was one of those games.”
Quote Sheet: Houston 3-0 Kansas City
