Florian Grillitsch: "As bitter as that was, you can’t change it now. We need to take a look at ourselves, not the referee.”
Viktor Skripnik: "I don’t think our equaliser was a foul. If that happened in the middle of the pitch, the referee doesn’t blow his whistle. The penalty incident happened very quickly. In retrospect and on the TV replays everyone can see what happened."
Fin Bartels: "In the game I didn’t think anything wrong, but afterwards I must admit that my hand was on his shoulder and you definitely blow for that. It was probably a foul."
Clemens Fritz: "Certainly not every referee would have given a foul against Fin there, but you can see why he did. The penalty incident was difficult to see on the pitch, but it’s obviously a bitter decision."
Jannik Vestergaard: "It’s difficult for the referees, you can’t always see. But that has little to do with football, if I’m honest. The incident decided the game. We were, as surprising as this may sound, in control of the match at 1-0. At 2-0 the match is obviously beyond us, the penalty killed the game for us."
Claudio Pizarro: "It wasn’t a penalty. I spoke with Arturo after the match and he confirmed that it wasn’t, but he had to make the most of it."
Thomas Eichin: "Vidal sees Janek coming at him at full speed and is already anticipating him making contact – except his doesn’t. That’s difficult for the referee to see, but as a linesman you need to step in there. Wrong decisions like this happen all the time, unfortunately that was a turning point for us today.”
