Domenico Tedesco: We showed character and a strong mentality

Domenico Tedesco:

It’s difficult to analyse such a crazy game. Both of us head coaches will need quite some time to cut out all the errors made by bnoth sides in this game. If I’m totally honest, I didn’t believe we’d come out of here with a point at full-time given our first half performance. Therefore, it feels even sweeter. From a footballing perspective, our second half was magnificent and I can only praise the players for that.

Dortmund overran us to begin with. Every shot they had seemed to go in. It wasn’t easy to get over that quickly. The fact that we did that is incredibly impressive. To be 4-0 down in this stadium in this atmosphere after 25 minutes is simply hell. We didn’t anticipate BVB to line up as they did. It was a very clever strategy from our opponents. Therefore, we corrected our line-up quickly with a couple of substitutions. We were a bit fortunate with Thilo’s second challenge on Yarmolenko – it could have been a second yellow on another day.

In the break, we gave ourselves the target of winning the second half. The fact that we came back and got a point is unbelievable. We’ve shown we have the character and mentality to put on a spectacle. I’m very proud of the whole team.

Peter Bosz:

This game should never have ended 4-4. I’m very disappointed. When you play like that in the first half, you can’t let that result slip. In the first half, everything was perfect. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang even had the chance to make it 5-0 – maybe he should have laid it off to Mario Götze.

In the second half, we simply stopped playing. We lost the ball too much, played too many long balls and too many backward passes. We couldn’t make the most of the space Schalke gave us like we did in the first half. The way we conceded the goals and the final score hurts.