Rutten rues Schalke defeat

Saturday 27 September 2008

Schalke 04 coach Fred Rutten accepted that his side had not deserved to take anything from their first league defeat of the season, a 1-0 reverse at Köln.

A goal from Youssef Mohamad right on the stroke of half-time proved to be decisive, with Rutten having no complaints about the outcome.

He said: "It hurts, but we are not big enough yet to control such a game. Koln were better and we deserved to lose.

"We have our goalkeeper to thank that this game was not over by half-time.

"We lacked a bit of luck, but on the other hand, a draw would not have been fair."

Rutten's fellow Dutchman Martin Jol and his club HSV went up against Borussia Mönchengladbach trained by yet another Dutchman, Jos Luhukay.

Jol's team won 1-0 in a match with few events.

The first half (11') goal was scored by Mladen Petric.

Four Dutchman - Nigel de Jong and Joris Mathijsen for HSV and Patrick Paauwe and Roel Brouwers for Gladbach - played the full 90 minutes.

Mark van Bommel and Bayern Munich continued their poor start of the season with the second consecutive defeat at Hannover 96: 1-0.

Szabolcs Huszti scored the only goal from a free kick in the 23rd minute.

Van Bommel also played the whole game.