I feel pressure wherever I go. I'm nervous for everything, even club games at home. It's getting a little easier, but I still feel nervous everyday.

I definitely think it prepared me. Getting the experience to play against some of the best players in the world at such a high level prepares you for any type of competition.

One of my teammates said he was lifting his hand up, signaling (another referee) to wait. And I thought he was giving me a high five. It was one of the most embarrassing things ever. He kind of looked at me and was like 'OK?' It was really embarrassing.

The only thing we could want more is to have these two games at home. Since we didn't take care of it at home earlier in the year, we have to find the fortitude to do it on the road now.

It's not a good situation that we are in. Everybody knows how important these next four games are at home. It might be our season. That's the way I look at it. I thought we started playing better in the last two games. It's just that the results are not there.

We've dictated the game with all our home games recently, barring the D.C. one. I think against this team it's going to present a good opportunity to show some good offensive soccer and put them under a lot of pressure and kind of redeem ourselves for losing to them earlier in the season.