Schalke goalkeeper Manuel Neuer has warned the German Bundesliga club they are not yet safe from relegation.
Neuer played in Sunday's 2-0 defeat at Bayer Leverkusen which saw the Gelsenkirchen outfit slip to within five points of the relegation play-off spot with seven games to go.
"We may be 10th at the moment, but there is not too much room behind us," he said on his club's website. "We can all read the league table.
"We have now got to win at St Pauli to ensure we don't get dragged down into relegation danger."
Josef Eichkorn, who took charge of Schalke for just the one match following the departure of Felix Magath, was happy with his side's second-half performance, but acknowledged that it was already too late by then.
"I would have liked to have seen a performance like that before the break," he said.
"All we lacked was danger in front of goal. We hardly created any chances."
Improving on that will now be the responsibility of Ralf Rangnick, who was today officially unveiled as the club's new coach.
He inherits a team which may be struggling in the league, but has already booked its place in the final of the DFB-Pokal and is in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
