“[It’s] terrible, to be honest, a doomsday scenario. Everything that could go wrong in the first twenty minutes went wrong. Everyone slips, including me. Those are moments you simply can’t do anything about. I can’t just stand here and start blaming the pitch. It’s terrible for [Kinsky] too, he’s making his debut. You wouldn’t wish this on anyone.
“Yeah, it’s really hard to say. I could give the standard speech here that we all need to stick together and work hard, but we’re just getting blow after blow after blow right now. So it’s really difficult. And this weekend we also play an important match where I can’t be there myself because I’m suspended. So yeah… it’s a terrible period, I can tell you that. It’s really, really awful.
“We have an important match this weekend that I can’t be at, because I’m suspended, of course. But it’s a truly terrible time. How am I feeling mentally? It’s tough, I can tell you. Really tough. So like I said, I just have to keep going. It’s part of it — part of life. And we’ll see what happens. I’m not on my phone anymore; I’m completely done with it. Only family and stuff.“