Maya Yoshida PRAISES Marco Reus AFTER the German SCORED his FIRST GOAL with the LA Galaxy

hey Maya hey um well first off just uh your thoughts of the new guy a second sorry your thoughts on the new guy uh who oh H as I say before the game be Thursday he could be he could he could be a game changer that he did he could today very happy for him very happy for the team um also I like today he could uh lift our midfielders or Strikers to the to the other other level because like um let's this I feel like a little bit this kind of chemistry it's too early to say but just one game because yeah you can say whatever you want but I feel okay if we are on the right way and this could be could be another level that's we needed as I say before the game we still have we still need to catch up with uh the other several clubs who we need to we need to fight for the titles so yeah that's that's is very obvious and uh that's we needed so I'm very positive today and very happy for the winning um 70% possession which which really helps and uh when they uh when they got into their attacking third uh a very fine defensive effort today your thoughts on that yeah normally um according to the data if we position a lot we always uh lost most of the game we lost so more position more defeat but today we are very solid very organized couple of uh V are outside but we are pretty organized since from the beginning and me and jayen spoke like my birthday present could be uh clean sheet and his birthday presid clean sheet so Mission completed my Maya how important was the clean sheet though you guys have now seven games left but you're you're in this stretch you guys have given up some goals this year how important is it to feel that zero on the scoreboard afterwards yeah I know the Los Angeles people likes entertainment and up and down but I prefer more calm and solidity and uh organize I we feel like really mature today and um also we couldn't we didn't considered from set pieces very focused uh we need to keep going on like that um yeah so just one game but it's big one game one step forward uh there's no shortcut so we need to build our confidence game by game hey Maya uh thank you for your time and uh Happy Birthday um today you know you put in a really good shift um arguably one of your best performances in an LA Galaxy shirt do you believe it's probably been your best performance in an LA Galaxy shirt so far I don't know you I'm not journalist so you decide I focus on my performance I try to play well every game and I want to grow up still um yeah Jen became 21 and the other one is 18 oh I mean the 18 years is professional so yeah still I keep going yeah how's your partnership with jayen Neil coming along at that Center back spot yeah um I like to play with a young player and um you can see he has a potential potentially very good was sometime lack of concentration this is very normal as as a young player Young Center back so the mistake from the mistake we need to learn he need to learn and I can probably add some tip through the training through the the game also preparation he's nice kid sometime he's too nice on the pitch as well so he has to be very nasty sometime this is very important for the center backs now uh everything s on on the camera it's difficult to be like uh for example Matti or gotat or something like this but this kind of mentality is very important as a center back and um he he's still a lot of possibility to improve I'm very happy to have and uh I also like if I play with a good player I feel like also improving so I need to feel this kind of feeling and I need the more competitive um play players between the squad this is where this is what I have in where I have been like Southampton the Italy uh sha this this kind of level and we are lifting each other so so this kind of environmental is very important for the young players congratulations Maya like you mentioned yourself and jayen got to celebrate your birthdays on the pitch with a clean sheet did the team do anything else to celebrate you both yes um they smashed my neck normally you know the the training they they make the corridor the tunnel then we just threw through run through and I'm sure that JMK hit my neck very hard so I will get it back one day last question Sophie hey Maya happy birthday thank you um how important was the downtime a little bit of extra time uh how how did you find that do you you looked so ready to go today and uh just wondered if you took advantage of the time that you've had since leagues cup um well negative side we we we are out of the leag cup very disappointed because we need to we want to we are very serious to get get through and and uh especially defeat from um Seattle was very disappointed how we play also very unacceptable but the positive side we could have a rest really good rest and prepared well for the this game especially Malco came and uh very short period for him but he he showed his glity and we tried to help him a lot um also there'll be practice as said PES as well so so far it's okay so I always take a positive side and that break hopefully make me makes us helps us a lot for the rest of the season and also for the playoffs thank you for your time Maya all right thank you thank you