Maximilian Eggestein: “I thought better of us and expected more of us than we showed today. That was a poor start. Conceding goals is natural, it happens, but we switched off in conceding those today. We were careless in taking our chances as well, but their goalkeeper had a good game and we were unlucky at times. We simply have to score more goals though; it felt like the ball was never going to go in today. We will analyse our performance in the week and work on our game.”
Florian Kohlfeldt: “We were neither decisive enough in front of goal nor at the back so we have to be better on both sides of the ball but the goals we conceded all came in different ways. I lost count of how many chances we had but Fortuna were really effective it was unbelievable. In terms of match analysis, we were really unlucky to concede that first goal and there’s no need to point fingers. Up until 1-0 we were in complete control, we had chances and we weren’t being hit on the break. After 1-0 though we lost our way. We came out after half time and we got our goal but we conceded way too quickly from the restart - we have to defend that better. All in all we have to be a lot more efficient and a lot smarter with the ball. Everyone knows our way of playing.”
Frank Baumann: “The disappointment is huge, but it happens in football. We haven’t always won the first game of the season in previous years either. We created a lot of chances but we made too many mistakes but we will work on that and come back stronger next week.”