Red wine was needed. "From White often I can not sleep so well," said Ralf Rangnick after a triumphant night in Milan. had a few glasses it should be, only then the coach might happily go to bed. While the fans of Schalke 04 largely renounced sleep and in the bars of Milan, one of the biggest sensations ever in European club football extensively celebrated, was the 5-2 (2-2) win at Inter Milan in the quarter-final first leg of the Champions League at Rangnick a feeling of great joy, but also caused deep sedation.
"For the spectators it was a fantastic game for us and a terrific evening," said the coach who has only been working about two weeks at the Ruhr club. There was a time of doubt about the capabilities of the players. Also influenced by the uncertainty whether the assembled by his predecessor Felix Magath team would ever be able to implement his ideas about football.
More incredible was the team's performance at the San Siro stadium. "What can one say after such a game? It could have turned out quite well as 10:5 or 8:4. We will need some time to realize what actually happened, "said Rangnick. After referee Martin Atkinson had been booed, was the coach ran onto the pitch and had congratulated each player with a handshake.
The looks that crossed it expressed itself, from surprise rather than enthusiasm. Only gradually Schalke seemed to realize that they had just previously given as rank outsiders the defending champion a lesson. "No one had expected that we deliver this kind of game. I myself still can not.
We played aggressively than ever before, "said Manuel Neuer. The goalkeeper was involved in the overture to a memorable European Cup night. "The shot is, unfortunately, backfired," said Neuer with a wink as he left the start of the game's events. Only 26 seconds were played, when Esteban Cambiasso with a long ball sent Diego Milito on the trip.
"Then I realized that I had to get out," said the goalkeeper, who could resolve two yards outside the box with a header. It was "a little angry" that he was not "40 feet wide heads" can "30 meters were not suffering enough." For there, on the halfway line, was Inter's midfield veteran Dejan Stankovic and hammered the ball with a frighteningly accurate volley the orphaned Schalke goal.
"Maybe we helped the clean sheet too, because then Inter should have felt a little safer," said Neuer. Certainly seems to, because otherwise, the defensive behavior of the triple-winner from last season can not be explained. "We've allowed too much and Schalke made so strong," said Inter coach Leonardo.
And so a picture was shown with symbolism, as Schalke's Nobodies on the international stage as Joel Matip and Edu international stars like Samuel Eto'o and the Interisti Maicon tried to comfort in the Stadionkatakomben. But what was out of arrogance bordering on hubris of the Italians, who had underestimated the enemy fatally, to the fact that it could come to the second miracle of Milan? That the Schalke 14 years after winning the Uefa Cup, when they had to keep in San Siro against Inter on penalties the upper hand, show the opponent could even? In which - as in 1997 - as mediocre at best classified League team in recent days apparently pulled a new spirit.
"The boys have been playing totally free," said supervisory board chairman Clemens Tonnies. He had at last have to put a lot of criticism after he had taken three weeks ago, the separation of Felix Magath. The meat producer, had a complaint in which the team committee twice over the harsh manners of the former coach and his seemingly inhuman methods now faces a confirmed and can in addition look forward to a real windfall.
Upon reaching the semi-final has Schalke, the European Cup revenue of 50 million € safe. Money that can make use of the heavily indebted club good. Tonnies believed that it is indeed a link between the coaching change and the power explosion. "We owe it to Magath also that we have come so far, no question.
But is the great idea of Tuesday back on Ralf Rangnick, "Tonnies said," Soccer Daily Buzz ". "His handwriting was visible." The influence of new coach was read at both the up and the setting of the heavily damages weakened teams. Nick Rank, which is often criticized for football only and not to be considered analytically intuitive, had on Tuesday with some gut decisions lucky: He took the playful Spaniard Jose Manuel Jurado, as required by Magath playmaker back into defensive midfield.
There was the 13-million-euro purchase, the Magath had rightly often criticized for that he thought the ball too long, make a virtue of his weakness: Jurado calmed the game when needed and initiated with deliberate attacks passports. The second important move was to rank Nicks, Edu, rarely Magath, and then only used as a winger, over to his former position in the spearhead.
Edu was grateful to the game of his life and two goals. "Edu is no one for the outer layer, and Jurado has brought the fun element that we needed to be at the initiative itself," said Rangnick. In view of this coming Saturday should the coach gut decisions are important again. Magath then a guest appearance with his new employer VfL Wolfsburg at Schalke.
On Wednesday said the former coach "Soccer Daily Buzz ':" I have kept the game even before the semi-finals to be realistic. make clear that the Schalke things already in the first leg, I was then surprised that. " 
"For the spectators it was a fantastic game for us and a terrific evening," said the coach who has only been working about two weeks at the Ruhr club. There was a time of doubt about the capabilities of the players. Also influenced by the uncertainty whether the assembled by his predecessor Felix Magath team would ever be able to implement his ideas about football.
More incredible was the team's performance at the San Siro stadium. "What can one say after such a game? It could have turned out quite well as 10:5 or 8:4. We will need some time to realize what actually happened, "said Rangnick. After referee Martin Atkinson had been booed, was the coach ran onto the pitch and had congratulated each player with a handshake.
The looks that crossed it expressed itself, from surprise rather than enthusiasm. Only gradually Schalke seemed to realize that they had just previously given as rank outsiders the defending champion a lesson. "No one had expected that we deliver this kind of game. I myself still can not.
We played aggressively than ever before, "said Manuel Neuer. The goalkeeper was involved in the overture to a memorable European Cup night. "The shot is, unfortunately, backfired," said Neuer with a wink as he left the start of the game's events. Only 26 seconds were played, when Esteban Cambiasso with a long ball sent Diego Milito on the trip.
"Then I realized that I had to get out," said the goalkeeper, who could resolve two yards outside the box with a header. It was "a little angry" that he was not "40 feet wide heads" can "30 meters were not suffering enough." For there, on the halfway line, was Inter's midfield veteran Dejan Stankovic and hammered the ball with a frighteningly accurate volley the orphaned Schalke goal.
"Maybe we helped the clean sheet too, because then Inter should have felt a little safer," said Neuer. Certainly seems to, because otherwise, the defensive behavior of the triple-winner from last season can not be explained. "We've allowed too much and Schalke made so strong," said Inter coach Leonardo.
And so a picture was shown with symbolism, as Schalke's Nobodies on the international stage as Joel Matip and Edu international stars like Samuel Eto'o and the Interisti Maicon tried to comfort in the Stadionkatakomben. But what was out of arrogance bordering on hubris of the Italians, who had underestimated the enemy fatally, to the fact that it could come to the second miracle of Milan? That the Schalke 14 years after winning the Uefa Cup, when they had to keep in San Siro against Inter on penalties the upper hand, show the opponent could even? In which - as in 1997 - as mediocre at best classified League team in recent days apparently pulled a new spirit.
"The boys have been playing totally free," said supervisory board chairman Clemens Tonnies. He had at last have to put a lot of criticism after he had taken three weeks ago, the separation of Felix Magath. The meat producer, had a complaint in which the team committee twice over the harsh manners of the former coach and his seemingly inhuman methods now faces a confirmed and can in addition look forward to a real windfall.
Upon reaching the semi-final has Schalke, the European Cup revenue of 50 million € safe. Money that can make use of the heavily indebted club good. Tonnies believed that it is indeed a link between the coaching change and the power explosion. "We owe it to Magath also that we have come so far, no question.
But is the great idea of Tuesday back on Ralf Rangnick, "Tonnies said," Soccer Daily Buzz ". "His handwriting was visible." The influence of new coach was read at both the up and the setting of the heavily damages weakened teams. Nick Rank, which is often criticized for football only and not to be considered analytically intuitive, had on Tuesday with some gut decisions lucky: He took the playful Spaniard Jose Manuel Jurado, as required by Magath playmaker back into defensive midfield.
There was the 13-million-euro purchase, the Magath had rightly often criticized for that he thought the ball too long, make a virtue of his weakness: Jurado calmed the game when needed and initiated with deliberate attacks passports. The second important move was to rank Nicks, Edu, rarely Magath, and then only used as a winger, over to his former position in the spearhead.
Edu was grateful to the game of his life and two goals. "Edu is no one for the outer layer, and Jurado has brought the fun element that we needed to be at the initiative itself," said Rangnick. In view of this coming Saturday should the coach gut decisions are important again. Magath then a guest appearance with his new employer VfL Wolfsburg at Schalke.
On Wednesday said the former coach "Soccer Daily Buzz ':" I have kept the game even before the semi-finals to be realistic. make clear that the Schalke things already in the first leg, I was then surprised that. "
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