Ishak Belfodil: “The early goal helped us to get into our groove. We put it all in from the start and fought for 90 minutes as a team. It was a great feeling to score and a big relief for me personally- At half-time the boss told us to keep on going to kill off the game and we tried to do that. We had a lot of chances to score the third goal. But us not doing that gave the opponent more hope. The finish is just so frustrating. We will learn from this though, I’m sure.”
Niklas Moisander: “We had a really good first half and we knew that Mainz would throw everything at us in the second half. We just couldn’t get that third goal. Mainz put pressure on us after their first goal but we shouldn’t have let that happen.“
Maximilian Eggestein: “We were too complacent and we invited pressure by just trying to hold onto the lead. We were the masters of our own downfall today.”
Florian Kohfeldt: “We didn’t put enough pressure on them in the second half, we didn’t defend high enough and we allowed them to have too much possession. Even though you could say we were much better in the first half, I thought that we were in control for the majority of the game. We let Mainz have too many chances in the first half. Despite that, the boys gave it their all and it was a strong performance.”
Frank Baumann: “We played well in the first half, defended cirageously and created lots of chances. But we let them have too many opportunities too, which we were lucky not to concede. It was a tidy performance for most of the second half too but we didn’t clear the danger in some situations. And we sat back too much which invited the pressure.”
