Frank Baumann: "In my opinion, we were more in the game in the first half. However, we allowed them to counter us too often. Leverkusen have quality in attack and they were very efficient."
Nuri Sahin: "We should not be conceding six goals in any game. After going behind I thought we were still in the game. We simply gave them too many chances. After getting back to 2-3 we then lost it."
Florian Kohfeldt: "There were phases where everytime either team lost the ball, they had a chance to score. We are normally good at transitioning between attack and defence but that was not the case today."
Sebastian Langkamp: "I can't completely give an explanation of the today's game. We lost the ball many times and so they countered a lot. There was a feeling that everytime Bayer had a chance, they would score. Their fourth goal killed us off."
Maximilian Eggestein: "We were sloppy on the ball and were constantly defending against their counterattacks. Today is a bad day for us. After we got back to 2-3 we had to take risks but unfortunately it resulted in them scoring their fourth goal that finished us off."