Florian Kohfeldt: “The game was going to plan for the first 30 minutes; we were controlling the game, creating chances, and pressing well. Things became a bit more frantic after the red card. We were playing on the counter too often and we weren’t creating as many chances. After the injury to Pavlas, it looked as though Frankfurt had the extra man. We want to play better than we did today, but the main thing was winning and we did that.”
Martin Harnik: “The penalty knocked us for six a little bit. We were often having chances that we weren’t finishing, but we deserved the win in the end. With four points on the board and the DFB Pokal win too, we can go into the international break happy.”
Davy Klaassen: “We created a lot of chances and it was a shock when Frankfurt equalised. We need to take our chances more, but we’re happy to get the three points.”
Frank Baumann: “We can’t be content with our performance, but we’re happy about the result.”
Ludwig Augustinsson: “The injury to Pavlenka wasn’t good for us, but we’re happy that we won in the end thanks to Milot Rashica’s free kick.”
Philipp Bargfrede: “The celebrations after the goal were great; thankfully I was closer to the bench than the others (laughs). We got the win with almost the last kick of the game - it's massive. We should have created more in the second half though."
Max Kruse: “We didn’t play well in the second half and we couldn’t find a way to score. We really didn’t play well before the winning goal. We need to play better when we’ve got an extra man and we’re a goal to the good. Everything changed after the red card and we should have finished the game off earlier, but we’re happy to get the three points.”
Milot Rashica: “It was a very aggressive game. The fans spurred us on for the whole game. We wanted to win no matter what and that’s what we did.”