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Gelsenkirchen (AP) - Shkodran Mustafi continues to believe that FC Schalke 04 will remain in the class. “I am convinced that the team has enough potential to turn it around again.

But we urgently need points.

I hope that we will stay in the first division at the end of the season, ”said the 2014 world champion in an interview published by the Bundesliga club on Wednesday.

After only nine points in 22 games, the traditional club is bottom of the table, already nine points behind relegation place 16.

Whether he will be available for his team's game in Stuttgart next Saturday (3.30 p.m. / Sky), the defender, who was signed up in winter, left it open.

“We're trying to fix the problems as quickly as possible.

But these are muscular problems that you have to wait for day after day, ”said the 28-year-old Mustafi.

He had problems warming up before the Revier derby last Saturday against Borussia Dortmund (0: 4) and therefore decided not to play.

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Interview with Mustafi