San Jose earthquakes manager Frank Yallop has revealed that he tore into his players during the halftime of the match against Toronto FC. The team was coming into the match on the back of a winless run for the last six matches. It has put them out of the play-off position after just 11 matches in the campaign. There was real need for three points from the match against Toronto and they achieved it exactly with a spirited performance in the second half to win the encounter 2-1.

San Jose earthquakes came into the half-time trailing Toronto by 1-0 following a goal from Braun in the 14th minute. Yallop said that he spoke like Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and it seemed that the hairdryer treatment worked because the team was able to complete a stunning comeback in the second half. It did not take long for them to equalise as Jahn scored in the 48th minute. They managed to complete the stunning comeback in the 81st minute following a goal from Wondolowski. This victory is the first that the club has achieved in the last six matches.

This victory is also extremely essential ahead of the next weekend’s match with Seattle Sounders.

“I meant business when I spoke at halftime. It’s my job to make sure they know how I feel. I just said to them, ‘We cannot let games like this slip by, where we don’t give everything we have.’ It was, collectively, a meek performance [in the first half]. And I didn’t accept that,” said Yallop. “It doesn’t come often, but it comes when it’s needed. And it was needed. It was just great to see it spill over out there on the field,” said the goalscorer Wondolowski. The win moves San Jose earthquakes closer to the play-offs.