In Saturday’s 2-1 home victory over LAFC, he curled home the game-winning strike in the 87th minute after a setup feed from Felipe Hernandez.
“Back home, it was a difficult time because obviously COVID, we were still in a lockdown, you couldn’t really do anything,” Salloi said.
He taught me a lot of things, but I think it’s adopting to my game and I want to give him credit because it changed me a lot.
This past Thursday, Salloi placed on Week 9’s Team of the Week presented by Audi, the result of a two-goal, one-assist showing in a 3-1 victory over the Colorado Rapids.
Everything about his game has been light years ahead of I think where he was last year, and that starts with his mentality.
“Every single time he gets the ball, he seems like he’s dangerous and he’s putting himself in really good spots in and around the goal.
Asked about that uncanny ability postgame, Vermess attributed it to his players believing in Sporting’s style of play.
“We have a really interesting, and I mean it in a positive way, mentality within the group because they definitely believe,” Vermes said.
We’re going to constantly try to be on the front foot, we’re going to constantly try to be a team that is aggressive in our mentality to go and score goals.
Sporting also suffered a possible setback after Pulido exited in the 76th minute with what Vermes described as a foot laceration that will probably require stitches.
“You never want to go down early in a game or at all, but the fact that we continue to trust our style and rely on that throughout the whole 90 minutes, eventually that’s going to tire a team out and we’ll break them down.