Canada U-17 coach Otmane Ibrir looks at his team’s 1-1 tie with El Salvador and ahead to the crucial match with the United States Friday in St. Louis. How did red card to Sita-Taty Matondo affect Canada? I’ve played Salvador before, and I told them before — just this morning I told them, “Guys, one thing: They will provoke you. They will spit on your face … they will roll on the floor like you killed them or something. Just DO NOT respond.” That’s all I said. And you see the [Salvadorans] get pushed, and [they’re] cramping and all that stuff. We expected that. [Matondo] just didn’t follow what the coach said, I guess. How does it impact your next game, Friday against the United States? We’ve got to play our game. The way we play, we don’t address to the other teams, so we have a certain way to play. We try to apply what we’ve been working on for the last year. You get a tie in the first game, now you play the favorite … We had our chances here. My plan, to be honest, was to win this game. Unfortunately, it was a tie. But the tie, we’ll take it. We play the second half with 10 men. We’ll take the tie and see what happens. Salvador is a good team, too, and they can hold the U.S., as we can, too. Are you confident in your depth, with Matondo out? We’ve got a lot of young players on the bench. We have five ’85s on the team. Our whole bench is ’85s, so we don’t have enough depth, but we’ll be fine. We have some good young players.