There are easier tasks than explaining what went wrong following elimination from the DFB Cup at the hands of a third division side. Viktor Skripnik would have most definitely wanted to speak about a successful start to the season with the journalists present on Monday morning, instead, he was forced to pick apart his team’s performance from the 2-1 loss to the underdogs from Lotte: “We put in an awful performance and have to apologise to the fans. It was an avoidable defeat which we will be rightly criticised for,” explained Skripnik.