Ole Werner: “I’ve got mixed feelings. On the one hand, we led for a long time and didn’t give our opposition too many chances, but on the other hand, we could have been travelling home with two more points. However, we put in a strong performance, especially in the first half, and that should be the main thing to take away from today. We try to play football that plays to the strengths of our players, and the lads did that well today, winning back possession well, defending strongly and creating plenty of chances. During analysis tomorrow, we’ll see more clearly just what we need to improve on, however we’ve more than show we’re capable of holding our own in this league. Today’s game was nothing different to what I was doing last year. I’m just doing my job, and fundamentally, nothing’s changed.”
Marco Friedl: “It was really fun, and we did particularly well in the first half. In the second, we let ourselves get run around by Wolfsburg a bit too much and didn’t quite implement our game as much as we wanted to. Wolfsburg also gave it everything they had, but when you dominate a game for so long and don’t win, of course you’re not pleased.”
Jens Stage: “It was really hectic, just as I was expecting. We started well and performed well over long stretches of the game. We also worked well together, and I think it was a good game. What pleased me the most was our intensity – we can definitely view that as a positive and we also want to keep that up. Everyone plays with great will too, we’re a real team and played that way.”
Leonardo Bittencourt: “Wolfsburg are an ambitious side and showed that today, we needed to defend well against that. They punished the slight mistakes that we made.”
Milos Veljkovic: “It’s obviously difficult against a team which possesses such high quality, but we put up a spirited fight against them as a team. We were even on top for large parts of the game. We’d already shown in the Bundesliga 2 last year that we like to attack from the off, we didn’t want to change that aspect to our game because it worked so well last year. We pressed well, but we also had to change up our strategy somewhat during the course of the game, so we set up a bit deeper in defence and it was through that that we made small mistakes which were swiftly punished now that we’re back in the Bundesliga.”
