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• Manager:Ralf Rangnick

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Hopp demands Hoffe answers

10 Mar 2010 - 07:15:21

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Hoffenheim owner Dietmar Hopp is seeking an explanation for his side's dismal display in their 1-0 home defeat by Mainz at the weekend.

Hopp was fuming after seeing his club drop to 11th place in the Bundesliga table, with their hopes of European football next season seeming an ever more distant prospect.

A furious Hopp told the Rhein-Neckar Zeitung newspaper: "I could never have imagined us playing so badly.

"It was not even like we had half of our youth team on the field against Mainz - we had our proven regulars. But there was precious little coming from them.

"I expect to receive a clear explanation. They are going to have to produce an analysis that is conclusive and from which we can deduce what is wrong at present.

"I would like an explanation for what I saw against Mainz. I could do without any beating around the bush."