Once again, MetroFanatic pretends they're a real media organization, conducting an in-depth interview with new coach Mo Johnston as Metro tries to march into the playoffs and win a series for the first time in five years.

MetroFanatic: Mo, we're just gonna talk where the team is now and where it will be for the next couple of weeks.
Mo Johnston: We're still at Giants Stadium.

MF: And it's your first home game.
MJ: It's always good to make the playoffs. But this team has done nothing so far. Hasn't won anything. Me personally, we have to make a big push to try and do something. In terms of beating New England, we need a better performance that we did on Sunday in the first half.

MF: But not a better performance than Sunday in the second half?
MJ: Collectively, we played really well in the first half against Chicago, the second half against DC. Put that together, we have a good team. But we cannot have below performances against New England. They'll kill us.

MF: It was mentioned that you specifically called out Amado Guevara at the halftime break. Does he have to step up? And did he step up in the second half?
MJ: For me, it wasn't just Amado. There was four or five guys that went about frolicking. Me personally, Amado has more in him. He has to collectively play for 90 minutes. We can't have Amado getting on the ball and just making little passes. Amado needs to be the guy who is getting on the ball for the MetroStars. Youri Djorkaeff, Eddie Gaven. But collectively we need to defend as a unit, and we didn't do that in the first half.

MF: It seemed that they were attacking through the flank where Jeff Agoos was on, and really abused Jeff through the first half until you moved Tim Regan there.
MJ: Not correct. For the first 15 minutes, and that was when we moved Timmy Regan over and they didn't get behind us as much. We got behind them a few times, which no one has even mentioned, when Sergio Galvan Rey had the chance that they cleared off the line, a couple of little half-chances after that. If you look at it, overall we had in the second half four or five clear, clear chances, more than they had. Collectively, we defended well in front of goal and Tony came up magnificent.

MF: So for this week, are you gonna switch out of the 3-5-2?
MJ: Nope. There will be a couple of other changes...

MF: You're not gonna tell us.
MJ: Of course not. There'll be certain changes, we'll move on again. The slate is clean. We haven't done anything, we've only made the playoffs. To the MetroStars fans, I'm telling to come out and watch because I believe we have it in us to get to the next round, and we need the 12th man, which is our fans.

MF: Let's talk about Michael Bradley. How is he handling this whole transition?
MJ: I thought the kid played very well. He scored a nice goal, he defended well, he got his tackles in. He's an 18-year-old kid with high expectations from me. And I will challenge him every single day. I have no problems with Michael Bradley. He is a credit to himself and to his family.

MF: Is it true that you've been behind him since day 1 of this year?
MJ: Why shouldn't I be? The kid has performed very well for the club. Just because the name "Bradley" is on the back of his jersey doesn't make him a bad player. When you have your dad as a coach, there's always gonna be people looking at you, and when you're playing all the time, it's tough. It's been a tough year for Michael, but he has performed well. You saw on Sunday, he stepped up for the team. He stepped up good. And I'm very very happy for him.

MF: He scored one of the biggest goals in team history.
MJ: Certainly. For me, for ten years this organization has underachieved. We now have an opportunity to win three games and make the final.