With the 3:2 win after 0:2, FC Schalke 04 made promotion clear. That’s what captain Danny Latza and sporting director Rouven Schröder said after the final whistle.
After the final whistle all dams broke. The fans stormed the pitch, the players sank to the ground or hugged each other. Of the FC Schalke 04 had just completed their return to the Bundesliga after a year in the lower house – and how: After being 2-0 down at the break, S04 turned the game around in the second half, winning after a brace from Simon Terodde and the decisive goal from Rodrigo Zalazar 3:2
“You can see what’s going on here,” said the captain Danny Latza then in the Sport1 interview while he was surrounded by cheering fans. He summed up the game: “We played a really good game and didn’t know how we could go 2-0 down. At half-time we said we could score three goals. The penalty just after the break got us Of course, played into the cards, then we were even better off.”
Latza continued: “We came here, we knew what was going to happen in and around the stadium. We wanted to force it – and we forced it.”
One dreamed of this moment, emphasized the native of Gelsenkirchen. His announcement for the following hours: “Today the party can rise. We turn night into day. Today everything doesn’t give a shit, we go steep without end.”
Meanwhile, sports director spoke Rouven Schroeder at Sport1 from a “shock rigidity”. It was unbelievable “what happened today. Big compliments to everyone in the club who believed in it and supported the team.” Schalke won the game “absolutely deserved” and the team always believed in victory. A year after the bitter relegation, Schröder, who came last summer and played a key role in initiating the rebuilding, announced: “Schalke 04 is alive again!”
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