“It was a highly deserved victory for us. A great team performance, but also a great performance individually,” summarised Edin Terzic, who added further praise: “The lads all put themselves at the service of the team. We managed to beat Newcastle twice – those were the only two defeats for this opponent in the last 13 games. And two clean sheets too. That’s an extraordinary achievement.”

The defeat against Bayern Munich briefly came up at the press conference. And the coach’s response was: “We know we couldn’t make amends for what happened on Saturday with a game in the Champions League. We sent a lot of people home disappointed. It was a case of drawing the right conclusions. We can be very satisfied with the team’s reaction. Now we have another important game in the Bundesliga in Stuttgart. It’s about continuing where we left off today.”

What he liked: “We were able to create good chances to score through good positioning and we simultaneously managed to keep the opposition far away from our goal with the exception of the one very good chance for Joelinton. And we defended the set-pieces well. Compared to the game in Newcastle, we managed to make use of good switch-play moments in the second half to cause danger and add the second goal via a counter-attack.”

BVB’s UEFA Champions League campaign will continue in three weeks’ time with an away trip to Milan, who followed up their 0-0 draw against Newcastle with a 2-1 triumph over Paris Saint-Germain at home and remain unbeaten at the San Siro. Terzic said of the situation in the group: “It was an important step that we took, but we know that more must follow. Because seven points won’t be enough to qualify for the round of 16.” (br)