“We gave it away too easily”

Head coach Sebastian Hoeneß: “We’re not happy at all with the result. We deserved to take the lead and after going 1-0 up there’s no way we should have lost this game. It’s hugely frustrating. We should have defended much better for both of the goals. For all the maturity we showed in our performance in Dortmund last week, we were just as immature in the last 18 minutes today. We need to learn from what happened in the period after we scored and draw the right conclusions. The defeat hurts because it was avoidable.”

Jeff Chabot: “It’s incredibly frustrating that we threw the game away. We were by far the better team. Wolfsburg scored the equaliser from their first dangerous shot of the game. That hurts. I don’t want to say too much about the penalty. If it had been the other way around we would have probably asked for it too.”

Nick Woltemade: “The goal felt great. As a team we’d battled so hard to take the lead but ultimately we’ve been left empty-handed. It’s really frustrating. We gave the lead away far too easily. We played so well in Dortmund but didn’t manage to do the same today after going 1-0 ahead. That’s all part of our process of development, but we could definitely have avoided defeat today.”