2nd league on Friday
Next setback for Hertha BSC in the promotion race
Updated 12/12/2025 – 8:59 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
High-scoring Friday in the 2nd Bundesliga. In the end it was a bitter evening, especially for the Berliners.
Setback for Hertha BSC in the fight for promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga. After the bitter 0-2 home defeat against Magdeburg last weekend, there was only limited amends on Friday evening: 3-3 against Greuther Fürth. Fabian Reese (33rd) and Luca Schuler with a brace (36th/62nd) scored for Hertha, Branimir Hrgota (42nd), Felix Klaus (58th) and Dennis Srbeny (81st) scored the goals for the Franconians.
In the other Friday game, Eintracht Braunschweig achieved an important 3-2 victory in the relegation battle at Dynamo Dresden. Christian Conteh (7th/21st) had put Lower Saxony in the lead, Jakob Lemmer (54th) and Nils Fröling (56th) initially equalized for Dresden in 120 seconds. Then Patrick Nkoa (78th) made everything clear at the end.
Hertha’s coach Stefan Leitl and Fürth’s Heiko Vogel warmly greeted each other before kick-off; after all, they have known each other for a long time. When Leitl was still playing in midfield at FC Ingolstadt (2007 to 2013), Vogel was the assistant to the then coach Thorsten Fink.
On the pitch, it was only Hertha’s enthusiastic players who set the tone against the worst defense in the league. The first supposed lead by Reese (26th) was subsequently canceled by the video referee because of offside. A few minutes later, Leitl’s team rewarded themselves.
But the Franconians, where Vogel trusted his fighting derby starting eleven, didn’t let up. Just three minutes after his substitution, striker Srbeny punished the guests, who did too little to win after the substitution.
The hosts, where Stefan Kutschke had to replace Vincent Vermeij at short notice, initially had no attitude towards the game. There wasn’t much going forward. But outrageous mistakes were made in their own half. A whole chain of these led to the opening goal. In addition, there were repeated slight ball losses due to passing errors. There was no organizing hand in midfield.
Braunschweig took advantage of this, gained increasing security, had air superiority and was more aggressive in the duels. Johan Gomez (13th) missed a great opportunity to make it 2-0 when the Dynamo defense couldn’t get the ball out of their own penalty area. Conteh did better a little later. This was preceded by a sleeper interlude in the hosts’ build-up game. If Dresden goalkeeper Tim Schreiber hadn’t reacted strongly three times at the end of the first half, his team would have been significantly behind.