On whether the ‘draining nature’ of the emotions of a game like this are part of why he is leaving at the end of the season, or if they are part of ‘the addiction’ to the job…

Neither, nor – nothing to do with that. If you see me watching football for a team I like, quite emotional as well. So you can have that as well without being in the dugout. Didn’t think about that, it’s other things. We can talk about my situation as long as you want, I just can’t change my answers, to be honest. When you are winning that [the touchline] is a great position to watch a game; when you are losing it’s pretty much the worst, you stand there. That’s how it is. It’s all fine, I had that all often enough, I don’t know exactly how many games I had now as a manager but I had that quite a few times. It’s nothing to do with that, [like] if we win a game then I want to stay manager, if we lose a game I don’t want to stay manager. [Or] if the atmosphere is great I want to be manager, if the atmosphere is not good I want to leave.

It’s a general decision about something which has nothing to do with these little moments or whatever. I am really sorry if I cannot explain it properly enough. Maybe I have to say it in German and you can all translate it! I’m not sure that will be better, by the way! Nobody has to worry about anything. It’s not that I say, oh my God, that’s so great. I love absolutely everything about the things I do. But I need to be on my top game to do it like I do it. If I feel I am not there then I am not the manager I have to be anymore. That’s how it is. Then you are not only a little bit worse, you are then immediately properly worse and then you are in the wrong place. If you can see that early, you make a decision.

On saying the team was ‘struggling’ and whether that was because of the amount of games they are playing…

Yeah. The problem is we didn’t even know who to take off. For a while it was alright, in 90 minutes everything would have been fine. But then with extra-time, it was like options were now not [there]. We can talk now we bring the kids – we all said that all the time, you have to bring them in the right moment. They are fantastic but it was not the right moment. You just saw, we could have [taken off] Macca definitely, Wataru [Endo] definitely, Darwin [Nunez] definitely, Lucho [Diaz] we did then, Joey [Gomez]. They play all the time the boys and today, this extra-time.

Let me say, if you lose then lose in normal time but not extra-time and then losing that late. That’s obviously close to get the penalty shootout. That would have been the same intensity if we don’t concede the last two goals, but the way we conceded the last two goals you can see as well, obviously we were not on top of our game anymore, gave two balls away. Absolutely no criticism about that. I saw a team who understood the importance of the game and gave absolutely everything. Today it was not enough and that’s what we have to accept now.