Nuri Sahin: “It was a strange game. We did the damage to ourselves. The coach said to us several times before the game that we need to be careful on the counter and then we concede three goals. The result doesn’t matter in the end. We lost. At 2-1 I had the chance from the corner to make it all open again.”
Niklas Moisander: “We deserved to lose today. We knew how important the game was, so the loss hurts especially.”
Max Kruse: “Unfortunately, it was one of the clearest games of the season for me. We could have made it 2-2 with the header, but it finished 4-1. We were behind them in every respect. It annoys us that we haven’t got an important three points.”
Florian Kohfeldt: “I had the feeling that everything was going against us today. We conceded an early goal and the other goals were preventable. We have to be honest that we didn’t properly get the last few days out of our system. That’s human and unfortunately that’s also part of it. We’re always learning. We also know that it wasn’t a 4-1 game here. We clearly had more chances. If we could have scored one earlier, we would have been able to get another. They just scored the goals at the right times.”
Frank Baumann: “The goal in the first minute was doubly painful. On the one hand, they created it. They showed their qualities: staying compact defensively, being plucky, and countering quickly. On the other hand, it’s important to start a game well at the end of an Englische Woche. Then there are no problems carry the weight of it. It was difficult to come back after two emotional and intense games against Bayern. We weren’t decisive enough up front, then we through everything forward and we were punished for it. In the end, we deserved to lose.”