FIRST TEAM
12/10/2020

Nordtveit: "It was a very good performance from us"

Here's what Philipp Pentke, Håvard Nordtveit, Sebastian Hoeness and Alexander Rosen had to say about the match.

Philipp Pentke: "It feels very good to have made my debut in the Europa League. I'm obviously slightly annoyed about the goal we conceded, but the most important thing is that we won and came through the group phase unbeaten. You could see the spirit and character the team has."

Håvard Nordtveit: "Our objective in the group stage was that we would go forward with courage and conviction. Conceding a goal is obviously always frustrating for a defender, but it was a very good performance from us. We can take a lot of self-belief from the game. My preferred opponent for the last 32 would be FK Molde from Norway."

Alexander Rosen: "I'm proud of the team. We made 10 changes from the last competitive game and then produced a performance like that. We wanted to take the game seriously, even if there was nothing left to play for in terms of the table. The lads showed from the first minute that they wanted to do that. We had six players from our academy on the pitch today; that's a great sign. The 16 points is obviously an outstanding record and it fits in with our objective to perform better at international level. This is an important competition. You got a strong sense that we want to make this our competition. We're now unbeaten in six successive matches. We want to carry over this energy, this power and this desire into our four remaining matches before Christmas."

Sebastian Hoeness: "The match was a lot of fun for me. From the first second, it was the way I'd envisaged it would be. The lads had outstanding body language, played with a great deal of intensity and were creative with the ball. They had a real desire to play football; they showed that too. I'm very, very satisfied today."

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