Austin FC

With disaster avoided and passage assured, Josh Wolff couldn't resist a self-aware wisecrack.

But it's a unique relationship with fans, the players and our community, and they push us on.” “The fans, the energy inside our stadium, again, is palpable, and it's not like that everywhere, I say that quite often. But he's done extremely well on penalty kicks and that's definitely something that plays into the minds of shot takers, there's no doubt about it.” But we found a way, and we move on. It’s all this game is about, when you get into the knockout phase: win and move on.” And with Salt Lake’s resistance still unbroken after 120-plus minutes, goalkeeper “We put them under a lot of pressure, and we should, obviously, being up a guy,” he added. “There’s a lot of guys in the box, we have a lot of services coming from deep areas, you try to get in shots from distance when you can get them. “I think there's probably one or two. Austin undoubtedly made very heavy lifting of the task. “But they understand what's needed.” It’s certainly not how he and his staff drew things up.