Fantastic push forward successful

Kevin De Bruyne celebrates while Nils Petersen and Lukas Schmitz get back to concentrate on defence after the game-winning goal.
First Team
Sunday, 18.11.2012 / 20:19

The Green-Whites came back from a 1-0 deficit against Fortuna Düsseldorf with a strong performance and a hard fight after the yellow-red card for Assani Lukimya and were rewarded in the end with an important 2-1 victory...

The Green-Whites came back from a 1-0 deficit against Fortuna Düsseldorf with a strong performance and a hard fight after the yellow-red card for Assani Lukimya and were rewarded in the end with an important 2-1 victory. Thanks to goals by Nils Petersen and Kevin De Bruyne, head coach Thomas Schaaf's team was able to jump to seventh place and remain in reach of the international places.

WERDER.DE collected reaction from the match:

Kevin De Bruyne: "The victory was very important. It was a very difficult match which we absolutely wanted to win. The fact that we scored the game-winner with a man less is a sign for the strong morale and team spirit. That was not my best match today. I had a tough week, was on the road a lot and didn't feel that fresh."

Marko Arnautovic: "We tried to create pressure early which gave Düsseldorf lots of room early on if they could keep free. We were just foolish on their goal, losing the ball unnecessarily in the midfield. After that we played better and got into the match more, creating a lot of chances which we did not use. When we came out of the changing rooms, we knew that we could still move things. Even a man-down, we pushed forward and did not just pull back. And in the end we were rewarded."

Aaron Hunt: "In the end, we are very relieved that we were able to win this match. If you look at the penalty and the yellow-red card, quite a lot of things went against us. The victory was very important for us because now we got back to our football."

Thomas Schaaf: "The team rewarded itself today and can see that on the table. It doesn't hurt but it's also only snapshot."
Sokratis: "We created many chances after giving up the goal. You could see that we can fight as a team. Now we are happy about the victory."

Nils Petersen: "We are only a couple goals worse than Hannover, otherwise we would be on a Europa League spot. That's where we want to be. This is the region where we belong. We have gotten close. Now it's important for us to create some space from the lower teams so we don't have to experience any bad surprises."

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