Great relief at Schalke! The S04 has scored an immensely important 1:0 victory against FSV Mainz 05. Thomas Reis was correspondingly relieved.

FC Schalke 04 has scored its 2nd win of the season. The 1:0 against Mainz was very, very important after Tuesday’s results – victory for Bochum, victory for Stuttgart. Schalke was able to follow up and did not lose any more ground.

Right from the start, the team showed a lot of commitment and great passion, who should leave the pitch as the winner on Wednesday evening. Namely FC Schalke 04. The coaches saw it similarly.

“We were very handy from the first minute, took the lead, should have decided the game for us earlier. We are happy that we kept the three points here to at least keep up. The team has finally been rewarded for its efforts,” said Thomas Reis.

For the Schalke coach, the win also ended a personal negative streak. As RevierSport reported, the 49-year-old football coach had conceded nine defeats in a row over the course of the season: on the last matchday of the 2021/2022 season with Bochum against Union Berlin, with VfL six starting defeats in 2022/2023 and as Schalke coach two defeats against Freiburg and Bremen. “Of course I’m glad that’s over now, too. After all, I dragged that along for a long time,” Reis said on “Sky”.

While there was some joy at Schalke, but relief first and foremost, the mood at Mainz was not good at all. Bo coach Bo Svensson was disappointed after the 0:1 defeat at the Bundesliga’s bottom team: “At no time did we bring to the pitch what was expected of us. Schalke were superior to us in all aspects of the game. We lost every duel, every second ball. Overall, it was a very disappointing performance from us, a game that makes us think. “