CHICAGO FIRE MEDIA CONFERENCE

September 2, 2023

Frank Klopas

Press Conference

D.C. United 4, Chicago Fire FC 0

Q. Can you just start off with your overall thoughts on the match?

FRANK KLOPAS: Yeah, I mean, just disappointing, obviously. What else can you say? It was a massive game, like it is. We talked about just the importance of every game. Implications in every match, playoff implications. We've been on this slide and we can't get ourselves out of it.

Yeah, I mean, overall, if it was just one word to describe everything, would be just -- two words, huge disappointment.

Q. What does the team have to do now to prepare for Montréal?

FRANK KLOPAS: Well, obviously a hard look at everything. We have this break now before we play. I mean, obviously we're going to miss some guys that are away with the national team. But it's an opportunity where we have to look at ourselves and evaluate ourselves and really understand what it's going to take in every match, the kind of commitment that it's going to require if we want to achieve the goals.

You know, every point now is crucial. The task ahead of us becomes even more difficult with every point we drop. You know, we are going to a place now against a team that we're fighting for the playoffs. Every match is like do-or-die right now.

Regroup. Get back on the field. Train hard. Prepare well and at the end of the day make sure that we go out there and have confidence to play better and to find ways to obviously put our chance as way but also defend well. Because if we are giving up three or four goals per game, then we have no chance to be even thinking about playoffs.