Florian Kohfeldt: “The DFB-Pokal is an important competition for us. We have always emphasised that to the players and I think you can see that in the way we have performed so far this season. We really wanted to get to the last 16 and that was obvious to everyone watching tonight. We played well in every area of the pitch. they put us under pressure at the start of the second half, but I thought we dealt with that very well. We had a young team on the pitch that performed very maturely this evening.”
Maxi Eggestein: “I think that the crucial thing for us was that we had a good plan and we executed it well. We knew how Hannover would set up and how they would start the game. Our game plan worked perfectly in the first half and we could have had more goals before the interval. After half time, we came under more pressure and we could have maybe defended better. But overall I would say that the win is fully deserved.”
Theodor Gebre Selassie: “It was key that we managed to get the goals we needed and also prevent them from having any big chances at the other end. That shows that we put in a good performance. I'm very happy with the clean sheet although maybe I should have scored a second! There were a couple of opportunities where I failed to control the ball, but for my goal I was just focused and got the connection that I wanted. Overall though, the important thing is that we're through to the next round.”
