The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Royal-95-c40387 Blues' team trainer asked questions from his side following their 2-0 defeat at Bayer Leverkusen which saw them fail to close the gap on league leaders, Bayern Munich
Schalke head coach Huub Stevens was not happy with his team’s performance in their league clash against Bayer Leverkusen. He wanted the Miners to be on top of their game and was hoping for an away win in his bid to catch high flying
Bayern Munich.
Der FCB drew 1-1 with Nurnberg and had Schalke won on the weekend, the gap would have reduced to just five points. That would have resulted in more pressure on the Bavarian giants. However, Stevens' side could not play up to their
full potential and he has vowed to find out why they failed to overcome the challenge posed by Bayer.
The tactician claimed the team must answer why they failed to get a good result, and said that this inquiry will be strictly confidential. The former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/PSV-c40281 Eindhoven defender stated that most of his players played poorly and he wanted
to substitute most of them, although he made a few changes.
"Explanations are required, but I would rather keep that internal for the time being," the Dutch coach was quoted as saying in an interview.
The former Hertha http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Berlin-c7536, FC Koln and Red Bull Salzburg trainer suggested that he was only impressed by young prodigy Kyriakos Papadopoulos, but unluckily he got two bookings and had to leave the field. He maintained that the Bundesliga
outfit were playing like they wanted to lose the weekend encounter.
"I could have taken nine men off, and I did take some of them off. And then the only one who actually performed well got a second yellow card (Kyriakos Papadopoulos), which is a shame. We were begging to lose this game," he added.
"It was a total failure. We absolutely deserved to lose. I cannot remember when we last played so badly," he finally concluded
Moreover, sporting director Horst Heldt conceded that the match proved that their players were below-par. He said that he cannot recall when the German club played so poorly prior to this game.
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