Porath and Harres reflect on "surreal" Kiel performance

The party was on in Schleswig Holstein after Kiel's "Störche" secured their second home win of the season. 

Holstein Kiel players celebrate their massive home win on Saturday.

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The mood in the Holstein Kiel camp - for the second time this season - was understandably jubilant after the newly-promoted Storks secured their second ever Bundesliga. 

Matters could not have gone better for Marcel Rapp's team at home against Augsburg on Saturday afternoon. A 5-1 victory saw striker Phil Harres score a brace. The team's leading scorer, Japanese international Shuto Machino, registered four scorer points with two goals and two assists. 

Native of nearby Lübeck, wingback Finn Porath, handled the post-match interviews along together with Harres. Both players expressed awe at what had just occurred. 

Porath and Harres swooned over the manner in which they and their colleagues played themselves into a frenzy whilst scoring four unanswered goals in a 27-minute-span over the course of the first-half.

"Every beat built on the previous one," Porath said. "We were in the flow and felt like we could score on every attacking charge. Today, we didn't let conceding the first goal get us down. We fought our way out of it. Hats off to the entire team." 

"It was just surreal on the pitch," Harres added. "Suddenly, everything worked out."