“I think we’ve never had the experience of a shootout before, so having that experience gives the players that kind of experience going forward. You can’t replicate a shootout, as much as you can practice pressing, you just can’t do that in training. I thought the players handled it well. You know, it didn’t go our way, which is unfortunate, but overall we’re really happy to come away with a point. There’s no getting around it, we have a lot of players away on international duty. North Carolina didn’t have that, so they were a little more fluid in how they played. You could see that, those connections, that team chemistry, which took a little bit of a toll on us. But honestly for the players to come out of here with a one-nil down and have the will and the character to come back and score the goal, it’s great to see. And we’re going to carry that momentum that we had in the league into the tournament.”