We thought we would be going there as it is the first game and Wales see it as their banker green.

I thought that Emily was dynamite in the first game.

The same way every time. We've never made it to the second game (of the final). It's always the first game. What beat us was we didn't hit the ball. On defense, you've got to give our guys credit. We played with a lot of heart. There were lots of times they could have scored two or three runs, but we kept battling and battling.

I don't know if there's another sport that has the parallel like getting the first goal in a hockey game. When you can score first, you can set up and play with more confidence. That worked for us tonight.

That was the key to the first game. The second game, we put the ball in play a lot better. Our kids responded well after the first game loss.

We got better tonight. Tonight we were a better football team than we were the first game of the season.