Marco Friedl: “We can be happy that we stayed in the game for as long as we did. Literally everything went wrong for us today. Stuttgart won every second ball and we didn’t stand a chance against them. I’ve rarely experienced a game where we’ve played so poorly. The bottom line is that it took us too long to start creating chances, and we fully deserved to lose. The team needs to go into next week’s game with a clean slate.”
Leonardo Bittencourt: "That was humbling, because at no point today did I feel like we could get something out of this game. We weren’t able to play like we did last week or find our feet at any point, despite the fact that Stuttgart didn’t even kill us off. The bottom line is that we absolutely deserved to lose. Of course it’s possible to lose, but it can’t happen to us in that way.”
Michael Zetterer: “We tried everything after a very tough 45 minutes, but nothing worked out, and we didn’t deserve it to today. Every player on the pitch needs to hold themselves accountable. I don’t feel as though everyone put 100 percent into their performance today.”