After Hertha’s 1-1 draw in Bielefeld, Hertha coach Felix Magath (68) surprised with hammer statements.
By Roberto Lamprecht and Carsten Priefer
BZ explains Magath’s double psycho trick for the rescue!
Attack on Bayern!
After Bayern’s embarrassing championship show in Mainz (1: 3), Hertha’s coach goes for Munich. He says: “There is still something at stake for all teams until the last matchday. I don’t know how a team can say: ‘For us the season doesn’t go to the end, we finish three weeks beforehand.’ That doesn’t serve the Bundesliga or the competition.”
Magath commented to BILD that numerous Munich players would also be jetting off to Ibiza on Saturday: “What can I say about that? English teams have been doing this for a long time, but I don’t know if there are results like that. I definitely wouldn’t allow something like that, it wouldn’t occur to me. Lets see how it goes on. A championship celebration is understandable once, but not for three weeks.”
Clever psycho trick!
Bayern is now facing the next duel against Stuttgart (16th place) – Hertha’s biggest relegation competitor (15th place) – under observation.
Coach Fox Magath is always in business, knows all the tricks and can afford such statements!
In 2005 and 2006, as a Bayern coach, he also won the championship title twice early. Magath remembers: “When I became champion, there weren’t any results like that, we didn’t lose.” That’s right! There were three wins and a draw.
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The relegation bill!
Magath surprises with this extrapolation: “When I took on the job here, I was sure we were playing in the relegation against HSV (Magath’s ex-Kub, ed.). I’m not working towards that. But it wouldn’t surprise me if it came to this constellation…”
Why is Magath, who led Hertha in 15th place with ten points in six games, suddenly talking about relegation rank 16?
The low level should take the pressure off his professionals before the home game against Mainz, in which Hertha could save itself with a win on its own.
It should show that if that doesn’t work, everything will still go according to the rescue plan.
