"That wasn’t our true face"

Khaled Narey: "There’s no easy explanation for this defeat. We had obviously imagined things going differently and are really disappointed. In the first half we actually did really well. In my view, the key issue wasn’t that we didn’t take our chances, but rather that we lose our rhythm in the second half. We wanted to continue playing out from the back, but we made too many mistakes. On top of that, we got caught on the break too often. There will be a few phases of play that we’ll need to analyse tomorrow

Lewis Holtby: "3-0 – it’s hard to come to terms with this result. We started well and had to take the lead. But in the end as the game went on, we stopped playing as a team. We weren’t winning challenges, made too many wrong decisions and gave the ball away too often. As a team, we failed.  For 60 to 70 minutes, we simply didn’t do enough and we didn’t show our true selves. We need to now dust off the defeat and play better football next weekend."

Ralf Becker: "The bottom line is that Kiel were more aggressive and stronger in their challenges, therefore they deserved to win. We started the game well, had lots of chances, but didn’t reward ourselves with a goal. That obviously hurts a lot because we felt so good before the game. We need to analyse the game, learn from it and see what we can do better next week."