Alexander Nouri: "I’m happy with how it went today. We played well, didn’t allow many chances and we kept to our game plan. But I would’ve liked our transition play to have been better. Obviously we are all disappointed because we all thought we could take something from the game. We wanted to give the fans something to celebrate."
Frank Baumann: “FC Bayern had more of the possession and dominated as expected but we defended really compactly and didn’t give much away. If you want to take something from a game against Bayern, everything has to come together. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out for us today but we will try our best next time to get our revenge.”
Max Kruse: “We played really well defensively today. In 90 minutes, you can’t stop every chance that Bayern get. We weren’t alert enough in the key moments and the Bayern players, with all the quality they have, took advantage of us taking our eyes off the ball and won the game.”
Fin Bartels: “We didn’t give too much away today, as is often the case against Bayern. Unfortunately we couldn’t convert our counter attacks into goals. Also too often we made the wrong decision under pressure. Unfortunately we weren’t able to steer the game in our favour. You could see that we fought with all our might but in the end we were just lacking that finish in the final third. We’ve come away from the game empty-handed and that’s really frustrating for us.”
Theodor Gebre Selassie: “We played against a really strong team today. We need to try and keep our concentration levels high for 90 minutes and be more effective in the opposition half. Bayern showed us how to do that today and were ruthless at two moments today.”
Milos Veljkovic: “We should’ve been more efficient today. We needed to take advantage of the few chances that we got.”
Thomas Delaney: “We were brilliant for 70 minutes today. We tried lots of different things to take the game to Bayern but we weren’t aggressive enough in my opinion. Now it’s about carrying on working and doing all we can to improve for the next game.”
