The Dutch international has expressed his delight on playing a part in his side’s win against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/VfL-Wolfsburg-c40881 this past weekend
Die Knappen secured all three points against Felix Magath’s side on Saturday, October 6, at the Veltins-Arena. Jefferson Farfan, Afellay and Roman Neustadter found the net for their side as Schalke won their fourth game of the
ongoing season.
The Royal Blues are currently in third place with 14 points from the seven games played, seven points adrift of Bayern Munich. The hosts have lost just one game in the league thus far and are bidding for a top-four finish at the
end of the season.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 and has impressed with
his displays for the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Royal-95-c40387 Blues this season.
“I've scored in friendly games here, but it's obviously much nicer to hit the back of the net in an important match. Still, the main thing is that we won the game so well. I'm just happy to have helped,” he was quoted as saying
in an interview.
The former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/PSV-c40281 Eindhoven man as admitted that a win before the international break was crucial as the team will be confident when they come back two weeks later.
“Winning before the international break was very important. Now we can feel satisfied looking at the league table for the next two weeks,” the player concluded.
Afellay’s teammate http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lewis-Holtby-c22175 hailed the midfielder and stressed that it is great that the player has found his first goal for the club. Holtby added that Afellay is a wonderful player and will only improve in the remaining course
of the season.
“I'm incredibly pleased for Ibrahim that he was amongst the goals. He gets better every minute he plays and we're delighted to have such a great player in our squad,” he added.
Schalke will next take on defending champions Borussia Dortmund at the Signal Iduna Park on Saturday, October 20. The match is expected to a mouth-watering clash as two of the top teams take on each other.
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