CHICAGO FIRE MEDIA CONFERENCE

May 17, 2023

Federico Navarro

Press Conference

Charlotte 2, Chicago Fire FC 1

Q. For about 60 minutes, I thought you guys played a very good road game, and then things changed. What from your perspective changed in the game that led to the result being what it was?

FEDERICO NAVARRO: I think the regularity and the consistency, both on the defensive end and on the offensive end of things, I think that we need to continue to improve, and I think -- I think we could have given a lot more and played a lot more throughout the game, but well, we are going to keep moving forward. We are going to go and try and correct everything we noticed and spoke about, and face the game again on Saturday.

Q. It's not the first time that the team loses an advantage that way. Is it something mental? What's missing from the team? What's happening that you keep letting teams comeback into the game?

FEDERICO NAVARRO: Well, as you mentioned, it could be something with the regularity, a little bit of the focus and concentration throughout the game. We have to go out there and try to be consistent from the first minute all the way to the 90th minute.

But in the short time that we have to turn things around, we are going to work on the errors and fixing the mistakes that we made, and well, I mean, mentally, I think during the game, we do try to remain consistent, remain focus throughout the whole 90 minutes.

Yeah, the truth is I feel really good and I feel really good playing alongside Gastón. He make things really easy. He makes playing really easy when you're alongside him. I think that the good relationship that we have both off and on the field really helps our chemistry and that makes it a lot easier to play alongside him, and thankfully, thanks to God, I feel very good after the injury. I feel like I've been well prepared and I am well prepared to continue playing in this long stretch where we have so many games.

I feel still like I have more to give and I'm going to continue to prepare, but I have been thankfully really, really happy to be able to play in all of these games back-to-back, and I'm going to keep going, and I'm just really happy to continue playing in these games, especially after a month and a half off due to injury.