just before the half-time whistle Pal Dardai had a small private audience in the case of referee Felix Brych. Herthas coach was on the sidelines. Brych listened quietly and prayed and then returned to his work. Then it went into the warming cabin to “come Down”. After a wild idea last night in the first half, it was sorely needed. 2:2 it had stood in the middle of the game between Hertha BSC and FC Schalke 04.
in The end, it should not go to Berlin yesterday evening in the freezing cold in front of 43 027 spectators in the Olympic stadium in a 2:2 (2:2) against the rivals from the West. Hertha had hergeschenkt the game half and half. The Berlin stay, at least for the time being, at table seven, Schalke remains on rank twelve.
No change in the starting line-up
compared to the start of the a week ago in Nuremberg (3:1) had made Herthas coach Pal Dardai no personnel changes. The Berlin started so well against Schalke with a double top, formed by captain Vedad Ibisevic and Davie Selke. The latter also had the first good opportunity, but after five minutes Selke failed due to his stubbornness and Schalke’s goalkeeper Alexander Nübel.
two light minutes Dardai could not be with the game of his team in the first half satisfied. Initially, Hertha had a pomadig and awkward in the game setup, so the Berlin were hardly compelling chances to score.
Significantly, for the first wobbly-wild half-time the game of Ondrej Duda. Herthas game makers had outliers above and below. When Schalke opened the scoring after a quarter of an hour he escorted, at best, the scorers Jewgen Konoplyanka, instead of vigorously attacking. And also the re-Schalke lead 1:2 (44.) preceded by a loss of the ball Dudas in the center circle, the counter-Mark Uth from the castle.
In the meantime, had been able to reach the Berlin the 1:1 compensation. As Duda, he can also showed. His passport by hoe Marko Grujic took advantage of his second goal of the season. The compensation for 2:2 Hertha scored in the injury time of the first section. Selke crossed for Ibisevic, who scored with a header effortlessly, his eighth goal of the season.
The game in the second half was fader from the point of view of the coach a little more serious, from the point of view of the Fans. It is the blackouts and the chaos of the moments on both sides were missing suddenly. Schalke and Hertha were trying to minimize the error, ran them in the first section to Hauf. Because it lacked the two Teams this evening, but of creative ideas, there was a quarter of an hour, not a single scoring chance. The first of the second half, then had to re-Herthas Selke, failed again after one hour to Schalke Nübel.
Unruly and insubordinate
in Spite of all efforts, Hertha got the game not really under control. The guests from Gelsenkirchen remained stubborn and defiant, without a long time, however, the pressure on the gate of Berlin, apart from a shot by Suat Serdar, Herthas goalkeeper Rune Jarstein was able to just deflect to the corner.
Then replaced Salomon Kalou captain Ibisevic. Dardai wanted to brush up on the Offensive once more. Of playful class to see this point, nothing more. The game had already started to weak up with errors, and with increasing time the level will be lost.
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For Arne Maier and Duda were then briefly Maximilian mittelstädt and Vladimir Darida ran, but that was about it. And so the Fans of the Berlin well, in the end, quite glad that after this mediocre performance in the first home game of the year at least a point out-jumped. To Cheer anyone was Mute.
