""It was a very intense game; it was incredibly tense, and at the end there was an outpouring of emotion. In my opinion, we deserve to be going to the final in Berlin given the greater number of clear-cut chances we created. My team deserve a great deal of praise for producing a battling cup performance like that.""
""It is tough to take that our DFB-Pokal run ends in such fashion. I saw this as the next step in our development, that we were able to produce the performance we did.""
Stuttgart secured a place in the DFB-Pokal final for the second consecutive year with a 2-1 victory over Freiburg after extra time. Tiago Tomas scored the winning goal in the 119th minute. Freiburg initially took the lead through Maximilian Eggestein, but Deniz Undav equalized to force extra time. Stuttgart's head coach, Sebastian Hoeness, praised the team's fighting spirit and their ability to create more clear-cut chances. Freiburg's coach, Julian Schuster, acknowledged the disappointment but recognized the positives in their performance.
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