28
19:58
Dominik Szoboszlai tries a free kick from 28 meters straight to the bottom left corner. But Alexander Schwolow is there and clears the corner, which then brings nothing further.
27
19:58
While Orban has to be treated on the pitch after the brutal foul, the VAR also looks at the judge’s foul again. Because it’s not a crystal clear red card, the VAR doesn’t step in to override the referee’s momentary decision. Double happiness for the Berliners.
25
19:55
Yellow card for Marco Richter (Hertha BSC)
Leipzip plays around the back again and Richter wants to go into the pressing with overmotivation. He aggressively slides into Orban from behind and catches his opponent badly on the ankle. He’s really well served with a yellow here.
23
19:54
The Berliners show at least a small reaction and approach with an advance on the right. The cross lands on Ishak Belfodil, who heads 12 yards clearly past the Leipzig box to the right.
20
19:51
Tooor for RB Leipzig, 0: 1 by Benjamin Henrichs
The Saxons press and now score 1-0 with the first attack worth mentioning. Yussuf Poulsen has a lot of space in the sixteen and then lays it down for Benjamin Henrichs, who simply tries to hit it from twelve meters on the left. Alexander Schwolow can only defend from the front, where the ball falls again at Benjamin Henrichs’ feet. His follow-up shot with the left is not optimal, but Linus Gechter deflected it into the Berlin goal, making it untenable for the keeper.
17
19:48
The bad passes are piling up. The hosts don’t have a clear idea for the game going forward and are also very deep, while the Saxons clearly saw that seven of the eleven players in today’s starting XI were just sitting on the bench. The automatisms have to take effect again.
14
19:45
The old lady has been doing pretty well defensively so far. However, the weakened Berliners don’t really know where to go with the ball when they win the ball. Accordingly, the back pass is very often the method of choice on both sides, which means that there is still plenty of potential for improvement in the game.
11
19:42
Dominik Szoboszlai spooned a free kick from the right half-field up in the direction of the second post, where Hertha was able to clear the corner. All Leipzig and Berlin players then dive under the stationary ball from the left. The ball lands on the other side in touch.
9
19:40
Nkunku serves Mukiele, who simply aims for the long corner from a half-right position from 13 meters. The tight shot, however, rushes past the left post. Kick off Hertha BSC.
8th
19:39
Christopher Nkunku takes a short corner from the left, but the cross in the sixteen is too erratic, so the capitals can counter. Vladimír Darida wants to send the starting Stevan Jovetić into the interface, but the pass doesn’t work.
6
19:37
The Berliners are very low and leave the field to the guests from Saxony as far as possible. RBL is by no means going through the wall with its head, but is playing it very patiently in these first few minutes. The ball runs safely through the Leipzig ranks.
3
19:34
The Red Bulls attack from the right. Nordi Mukiele served Yussuf Poulsen flat, but under pressure from 14 meters he shot well past the box to the right. He then claims a corner kick, but the referee awards the goal kick to the home side.
1
19:31
Kick-off in the Bundesliga game on Sunday evening! Hertha runs in blue and white jerseys over blue shorts. The guests from Saxony are dressed all in white. The ball rolls.
19:03
Incidentally, in all games that took place at least ten times as part of the Bundesliga, only FC Bayern vs. Energie Cottbus (83%) had a higher win rate than RB Leipzig vs. Hertha (82%). The Saxons could now even increase this quota against an extremely weak Hertha, which has several players from the U23 on the bench. However, RBL was not in very good form away from home recently. The Red Bulls have only won one of their last 13 away games in the Bundesliga (four draws, eight defeats).
18:56
The two teams have faced each other eleven times in a competitive match and with nine wins RB Leipzig clearly leads the direct comparison (one draw, one defeat). The Saxons not only won 6-0 in the first leg on September 25, 2021, but also scored at least twice in all eleven games against Hertha. The Red Bulls have also won all five away games at the Olympic Stadium so far.
18:49
During the week Leipzig played against Real Sociedad in the Europa League and came back twice from behind (final score: 2-2). The Red Bulls missed out on the home win, but still have every chance of reaching the round of 16 in the Basque Country next Thursday. In any case, Tedesco rotates hard after the first leg. There are seven changes compared to Thursday: Orban, Poulsen, Haïdara, Forsberg, Szoboszlai, Mukiele and Henrichs are preferred to Adams, Klostermann, Laimer, Olmo, Silva, Kampl (all six benches) and Angeliño (cold).
18:43
RB Leipzig is in second place in the second half of the season table with twelve out of a possible 15 points and, after beating 1. FC Köln 3-1, climbed into a Champions League spot for the first time in the 2021/22 season. The Red Bulls under Domenico Tedesco have only lost one of their last seven competitive games, with at least two of their own goals being scored in each of these seven games. The Saxons travel to the capital in correspondingly strong form.
18:37
The Berliners need points in the relegation battle. Accordingly, Tayfun Korkut reacted to the recent 1:2 in Fürth and made four changes to his starting lineup: Fredrik Bjørkan, Marc Oliver Kempf, Santiago Ascacíbar and Marco Richter are starting today for Myziane Maolida (bank), Maximilian Mittelstädt, Niklas Stark and Suat Serdar ( all three COVID-19).
18:33
The old lady has not yet won any of her six competitive games in the 2022 calendar year and recently even lost 2-1 at bottom Greuther Fürth. so the effect of the change of coach in the capital has completely evaporated. Under Dárdái’s successor Tayfun Korkut, the Berliners only got nine points from nine games. Since Otto Rehhagel (eight points from the first nine games in 2012), no Hertha coach has started worse.
Good evening and welcome from the Berlin Olympic Stadium. Here Hertha BSC welcomes RB Leipzig at 7:30 p.m. today as part of the 23rd match day of the Bundesliga.