CHICAGO FIRE MEDIA CONFERENCE

May 13, 2021

Miguel Navarro

Press Conference

D.C. United 1, Chicago Fire 0

Q. How are you feel after playing tonight? How are you feeling physically?

MIGUEL NAVARRO: Good evening. Yeah, I felt good coming back from an injury. So I did spend some time out, but I feel good. I feel comfortable being back out on the field.

Q. I wondered from your perspective what do you think went wrong on the D.C. goal in the seventh minute?

MIGUEL NAVARRO: Yeah, those are things that happen during a game. It was a defensive -- we weren't paying attention defensively for a moment, and unfortunately they were able to capitalize on that, and we know that going into a game, you always have to go in fully concentrated, especially as a visitor. You have to be fully focused for the whole 90 minutes. Unfortunately they were able to score pretty early and the game kind of got a little topsy-turvy for us, and we couldn't score the goal that would have tied us up or even be able to get back to get ahead.

Now we are looking ahead. There is another game coming up, a home game, and we just have to keep looking ahead and think about the next game that's coming up.

Q. You were one of the many people who mentioned playoffs as a goal for this team this season. Is that still a realistic goal for this group?

MIGUEL NAVARRO: Yes, the illusion is intact. The desire is intact, and I think we continue with that same desire of reaching the playoffs. It's definitely not the start that we wanted to the season where we haven't been able to come away with a victory but we know that we are going to keep working together and keep working hard, and at some point the victories are going to open up and they are going to come for us.

We just have to keep working hard day-to-day, moving ahead, which is the most important thing, just putting in the work during the week and showing it on the weekends and moving forward game by game.