Tight decisions remained an issue in this game. Shortly before the break, Hertha also celebrated for the first time, Suat Serdar had completed a preliminary work by Ishak Belfodil and Maximilian Mittelstädt from close range in the blink of an eye. But Belfodil was slightly offside beforehand, so the supposed 1-1 was not recognized.
Stark hits the wrong goal
Even after the change, Korkut’s protégés were unlucky. First Vladimir Darida threw the ball over the Union goal from seven yards, then Stark made another mistake: The defender wanted to clear a sharp cross from Levin Öztunali in front of Voglsammer, but pushed the ball over his own goal line: 0:2 (50 ‘).
The game seemed to be decisive, but Hertha now risked everything – and then had luck on their side. After Belfodil’s preliminary work, Serdar started for the baseline, probably wanted to pass into the middle, but deflected by Rani Khedira, the ball tumbled past the surprised Andreas Luthe into the near corner (54th). Shortly before the end came the message from the DFB. The goal counts as an own goal by Khedira.
Not even a minute of hope
But the hope of catching up was quickly stifled. Less than a minute after the connection, Union was again ahead with two goals: Bastian Oczipka crossed a free kick sharply in front of the Hertha goal, the central defender Robin Knoche held the right inside instep and immediately increased it again to 3: 1.
The efforts of the Hertha team could not be denied afterwards, but against the calmly defending Union team it all seemed too harmless and not powerful enough. The irons limited themselves to a few counterattacks, but even those were more dangerous than the vice mayor’s constant attacks. Only in the fifth minute of stoppage time did Serdar maneuver the ball over the line again – but seconds later Aytekin called the game off.
“Now we celebrate”
Max Kruse was then happy at the sports show microphone: “I don’t think Andreas himself expected to score the first goal like that. But it was important because we knew that we would get space against Hertha after a lead. We gave everything and I think we did well deserved win We have music, we’ll party a bit more.
Hertha’s sports director Arne Friedrich was completely served: “We defend like a school team. It’s difficult to put into words.” Korkut quarreled: “It’s very disappointing. We’ll come back after being 2-0 down, but then we can’t just concede the third goal – and certainly not that quickly.” When asked about his dream goal, Voglsammer admitted: “There’s always a bit of luck involved.”
Hertha now against Bayern
Hertha now has the next difficult task ahead of them, on Sunday (01/23/22) Bayern Munich is a guest in the Olympic Stadium. The Irons have a task that seems very solvable at the moment: They play at Borussia Mönchengladbach the day before.
Status: 01/19/2022, 23:20