{"id":148687,"date":"2025-08-15T20:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/148687\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T20:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:13:09","slug":"pascal-jansen-our-mentality-doesnt-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/148687\/","title":{"rendered":"Pascal Jansen | “Our Mentality Doesn’t Change.”\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the final 10 games of the MLS regular season beginning on Saturday at Yankee Stadium, Head Coach Pascal Jansen has reiterated his team\u2019s unwavering mentality.<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York City FC will take on Nashville SC on Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium, aiming to maintain their recent good run in MLS. The two sides are no strangers \u2014 their previous meeting this season ended in a 2-2 draw, with Jansen viewing both teams as having attacking intent from the outset.<\/p>\n

\u201cI only have the experience of one game playing against them,\u201d Jansen said. \u201cWhen we did our review, going into this game and looking back at the game we played in Nashville, there were some interesting things there because I think there were two teams on the pitch with an attacking philosophy, going at it at a very good level. The first half of that game was for Nashville, and the second half was for us.<\/p>\n

“So we hope to build on that second half, of course. If you look at that game specifically, it was two attacking teams with some good players and a good philosophy. I\u2019m looking forward to having our first win at home against Nashville because, like I said earlier on, for us, it\u2019s one of those 10 games to get us into the position we want to be \u2014 and that is in the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Consistency and a winning mindset remain essential as New York City push for a playoff spot.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo different to the mentality that we try to bring into the dressing room or add to the dressing room from game number one or from day number one, even. That\u2019s making sure you have the winning mentality always, whatever game you play and whenever you play. Now it\u2019s going to be the final stretch of 10 games to get what we are chasing from day one. We know what\u2019s at stake, and we know what it takes. We know what we\u2019re good at and what we are less good at, and that\u2019s something you have to be aware of going into this final stretch in order to have the biggest chance of getting the results that are needed to get yourselves into the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jansen also underlined the importance of playing at home in a league where travel can be demanding.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, the home advantage is something that is part of MLS that I\u2019ve gotten to learn about myself this season,\u201d he said. \u201cSo the home advantage is there. Of course, we don\u2019t have to travel. We play in our own stadium with our own fans supporting us going into this final 10-game stretch of the season. Playing a good team like Nashville helps as well, because over the season, playing the top teams has brought out the best in us. However, that also points out the other part \u2014 where we played teams that were lower-seeded than us, and we dropped points \u2014 so the consistency part is still up for discussion.<\/p>\n

“Since we played Nashville away, we\u2019ve had some good results, but also some results that are unexplainable and still affect our process in becoming more consistent throughout the season. Hopefully we can manage to be very consistent throughout the last 10 games of the season, and then it will give us what we\u2019re looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, Jansen offered an update on new signing Ra\u00fal Gustavo\u2019s arrival and what he brings to the squad. The defender was signed from Hungarian side Ferencvaros, where he first worked with Jansen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope as soon as possible,\u201d Jansen said when asked when we can expect to see the Brazilian on the field. \u201cPaperwork is being dealt with. We\u2019ll have to see once he\u2019s in New York what kind of state he is in. In the previous period, he\u2019s been in Manchester training and making sure he stays healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the final 10 games of the MLS regular season beginning on Saturday at Yankee Stadium, Head Coach…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,87603,87602,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-148687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nycvsnsh-08-17-2025","17":"tag-pascal-jansen","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115034613604653246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}