Crisis and no end in sight: Florian Kohfeldt is stuck in a dangerous whirlpool with Wolfsburg. The next few weeks will be tough.
Little. Too little. Florian Kohfeldt’s face showed that he was not happy about the point. Although the coach stopped the almost scary series of bankruptcies with VfL Wolfsburg, from his point of view it was just a point against Hertha BSC – and “no liberation”, as Kohfeldt said after the 0-0 draw.
The Werkself had previously lost eight competitive games in a row, and for the first time since November 20 they were not the losers. And yet Kohfeldt and Co. snuck off the pitch pretty badly. Because in the duel of the great disappointments in the league against Berlin, only one win counted, “no matter how,” said the 39-year-old.
And then three points would have been possible if Luca Waldschmidt (16th), Wout Weghorst (18th) or Yannick Gerhardt (29th) had used one of the “three huge chances”. had. So Wolfsburg remains in the lower regions of the table, the relegation zone is dangerously close – and they were still playing the Champions League a few weeks ago.
“There is no reason to believe: it will be back. We have to keep the reins extremely tight in our hands,” said Kohfeldt. He also knows the program for the next few weeks. Only the game against Fürth (February 6th) will be supposedly easy, the other opponents until the end of February are Leipzig, Frankfurt, Hoffenheim and Mönchengladbach.
It wouldn’t be a big surprise if the already considerable bankruptcy account had grown by four defeats afterwards.
“After the games we’ve played in recent months, this point doesn’t help us,” said captain Koen Casteels. The goalkeeper also struggled with evaluating the chances. “It’s hard for us to score goals. It’s hard to explain and it’s annoying,” he said.
Even if many fans are reminded of the almost descents in 2017 and 2018 and some wonder who the team should win against, if not against this staid and pale Hertha – the wolves also encouraged themselves. They have no other choice.
“Small step in the right direction”
“We can build on the performance and will try to call it up every week,” said Casteels, who “absolutely doesn’t have the feeling” that anyone has “given up”. Kohfeldt said, “we have taken a performance step forward”. And sports director Marcel Schäfer spoke of a “step in the right direction, even if it was only a very small one”.
In the crisis you have to pull out what was positive. And against Hertha “there were a few things that were really neat.”
Only: sometimes neat is just not enough. And so Maximilian Arnold summed it up quite correctly: “In our situation, only victories really help us.” No dots.
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