Milos Veljkovic: “Above all, our aim today was to be compact and keep a clean sheet. We knew that we would get chances on the break and, fortunately, we were able to get the goals.”
Zlatko Junuzovic: “We weren’t amazing today, it was a fairly ordinary game. Schalke made life difficult for us. The goals came at a good time for us and then it was just a question of belief.”
Niklas Moisander: “It was an unbelievable evening for all of us. The first half wasn’t amazing, but the second was. We’re very happy. We’ll take a lot of belief into our next match. It’s good that we kept a clean sheet. More than anything, we worked very hard defensively.”
Alexander Nouri: “The aim today was to again bring our togetherness onto the pitch. We put a lot into the game and defended well. I must compliment the team who showed a lot of heart today. We’re giving everything and making progress. Confidence is growing with the results.”
Max Kruse: “It was a hard-fought match and Schalke played well and stopped us getting into the game. In the first half they had some good opportunities, but in the second half we were better and we’ve been scoring goals at key moments recently – we did that again today.”
Theodor Gebre Selassie: “I’m very pleased with the victory and my goal. It was a good evening, just as we had imagined. With this game you can see how important self-belief is in football. We played good football and got the points. We’re all there for each other, but we mustn’t think that we’ve already achieved something.”
Fin Bartels: “In the first half we took the lead out of nothing. After the break, Wiedi kept our lead intact and then we scored our goals at the right time. That’s happening to us at the moment, even when we’re not playing particularly well. But we always believe and our belief has increased over the last few weeks. We know that we’ll get our chance in every game.”