The club’s 33-year run in the top flight ended amid ugly scenes as fans turned on the players outside the Veltins-Arena
It was all over bar the shouting, but there was plenty of shouting to come. Schalke had finally come to the end of the Bundesliga road at Arminia Bielefeld and though the final destination was not a surprise it was still hard to take. The youth product Timo Becker wept on the bench and the general manager, Gerald Asamoah, a hero on the pitch in better times, only just held back his own tears in front of the television cameras.
“We knew what to expect,” Asamoah said after relegation was confirmed. “But when the time finally comes, when you realise it’s now over … that’s brutal.”
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Atlético Madrid stayed in control of La Liga's title race by beating struggling Huesca 2-0 at home on Thursday with goals in each half by Ángel Correa and Yannick Carrasco.
Dortmund 2-0 Union Berlin
Hoffenheim 3-2 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Stuttgart 1-3 Wolfsburg
Werder Bremen 0-1 Mainz
Arminia Bielefeld 1-0 Schalke
Bayern Munich 2-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 Augsburg
Cologne 2-1 RB Leipzig
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