"We had a good start to the game and we had a few chances in the first half but, frankly, we were out-competed tonight. I'm not going to give the excuse that we were a tired team, but we played that ...

"You saw the texts. It was out there. It was, 'If you can go on Saturday, I want you with the team in case you can go.' He participated in the Saturday walk-through like he was going, so there was ...