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Minnesota United head coach Eric Ramsay says the membership are “onto an excellent factor” regardless of their nine-match winless streak as they put together to face the San Jose Earthquakes.
Minnesota ended a six-match dropping run in opposition to Houston Dynamo final weekend with a 1-1 draw however couldn’t construct on that in midweek as they let a lead slip in stoppage time in opposition to D.C. United to lose 3-2.
Sitting ninth within the Western Convention with groups under them are beginning to shut in, however Ramsay, who’s beginning to come underneath strain resulting from this run of outcomes, stays optimistic.
“I all the time see hope,” Ramsay stated. “We’ve obtained a bunch that may be very keen to throw themselves right into a problem and a training workers which can be largely very constructive and constructive.
“We’re doing all the pieces we will to make it possible for we roll from one recreation into one other. We have a look at ourselves laborious within the mirror, however we’re additionally real looking, and I’m completely adamant that we’re onto an excellent factor right here.
“The massive factor is we stay calm and degree, with classes realized, and all the pieces nonetheless intact.”
In the meantime, San Jose sit rooted to the underside of the desk having collected simply 14 factors this season.
Regardless of profitable simply certainly one of their final 12 matches, interim head coach Ian Russell says he sees enchancment within the workforce, particularly defensively.
“We’ve had three video games in every week, and also you need to deal with every recreation, however that’s actually laborious,” Russell stated.
“Defensively, we’re higher, however we’ve obtained to get the assault going. It’s a advantageous line. It’s a matter of each participant shopping for in defensively, staying compact, small particulars.
“In case you do this as a collective, you begin seeing outcomes and, defensively, we’ve been fairly good.”
Onward and upward.
