On the importance of the game against Honduras: “All the games we play are important, but what’s important to me is to see the players and find out where they are in their development. We’re a very young team. I think we’ve probably got the youngest team here, and we’re trying to find out who we feel is going to be good enough to go into camp in January. Our pros are not here, because they’re playing in the MLS. So we have basically a very young team.” On correcting first-half mistakes: “We struggled in the first half; actually, we solved the problem in the second half. We got back in the game, and it looked like we were going to win the game. We made two youthful errors, and you can’t win with eight players on the field.” On Evan Whitfield’s second yellow card: “It was just inexperience. There’s no need to do it. It’s not like he was going to score a goal. He’s already carrying a yellow. That’s OK, as long as he learns from it. Because that’s why they’re here — to gain that experience. We lost the game because we had two people sent off.” On the team’s chances to advance in the tournament: “We need to win two games. If we win two games, we’re in the second round. I felt that today, the way the game was going in the second half, if we could keep 11 people on the field, we were going to come out with at least a tie and maybe a win. We weathered the storm in the first half. We had some problems in the first half, and we sorted it out at halftime. Everything’s going fine, and then all of a sudden within 10 minutes, we have more people on the bench than we have on the field.” On the play of DaMarcus Beasley and Ryan Futagaki: “They’re both very young players. One’s a U-17, and one’s a U-19. They’re both young players, and they both have a future, but as I’ve said, we’ve brought this team here to give them some experience. They’ve never played together before, and we want to basically find out which ones of these are going to join the team in January.” On the team’s first-half difficulty: “The problem was, tactically, what I asked for we didn’t do. In the second half, they did it, and it was fine. It had nothing to do with the speed, because in the first 20 minutes of the second half, they were having trouble with us. We basically backed off way further than we should have, we had too many people in the back instead of pushing up. So our problem in the first half was tactical.”