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Büskens: Victory More Important Than Performance

Despite not putting in their best performance of the season, Schalke managed to squeeze to a narrow 1-0 home victory over Eintracht Frankfurt to keep themselves in the race to finish as runners up this season.

A second half header from centre back Mladen Krstajic following a Rakitic free kick after 65 minutes was enough to seal a 1-0 win for the Königsblauen.

The win sees them remaining two points behind Werder Bremen and means that the runners up this season will only be confirmed after the final game of the season next Saturday.

“We didn’t see a very good performance from the team today. But at the end of the day, the important thing is that we won 1-0.

“The calculation is now simple. We have to win our last game and we need Bremen to lose.”

Frankfurt find themselves in freefall with the defeat at the Veltins Arena their sixth in their last seven games.

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