Niclas Füllkrug: “It’s a really exciting day. The second half lasted forever, I was looking up at the clock every 15 seconds. We can be unbelievably grateful for the fact that we have two more games left now. We did our job today.”
Kevin Vogt: “The fact that we pulled off the first small miracle today is fantastic. I believe that, in the last third of the season, our upwards trend of performances has shown that we are more stable. But of course the time was running out. We were very confident today, we played on the front foot and kept finding gaps in their defence. We scored our goals at the perfect times. I don’t think they were expecting us to attack them like that. I’m very, very happy.”
Davy Klaassen: “I don’t think many people had been expecting that. But we believed in ourselves. We managed to do what the entire city and club believed we would. That paid off today. The fact that we scored three goals in quick succession helped of course. We’re happy, but not done yet.”
Niklas Moisander: “We knew that we had to win and score as many goals as possible. We managed to do that. We’re very happy. In the next two games we’ll have a ‘do or die’ attitude.”
Florian Kohfeldt: “The boys played well today. They were under immense pressure, just as they were in Freiburg or in Paderborn. We knew that if we didn’t win today, it was over. But it wasn’t just about our game here, we were relying on results elsewhere. We knew that it wasn’t in our own hands.”
Frank Baumann: “We played really, really well. Of course we kept a keen eye on what was happening in Berlin. We’re really, really happy that we at least finished the day in the playoff position. In football you can say a lot, without really explaining it. It’s difficult to say why it hasn’t worked for us at home recently. Of course a lot came together today. But you can also see that we played with our first-choice attack for the first time today. Yuya Osako, Niclas Füllkrug and Milot Rashica haven’t played together at all so far this season. That’s a lot of quality that we have been missing in a number of games. Today all three of them and the rest of the team put in a really good performance.”
