Stefan Leitl becomes the new trainer at Hertha BSC. The coach has already risen in his career. He should repeat that with Hertha. His pragmatism is required. The conditions could be significantly better.
Since Kay Bernstein Hertha President became president, the club has been changing on Berliner Weg. In this respect, the commitment of the new trainer Stefan Leitl is in the spirit of the mantras of the old lady. Leitl himself played the longest time of his active career in Ingolstadt. For this, his assistant coach Andre Mijatovic is an old acquaintance at Hertha BSC.
Between 2010 and 2012, the Croatian ran 47 times for the blue and whites. When Hertha made the Bundesliga return in Duisburg in 2011, Mijatovic even led the team onto the pitch as a captain. He wants to create the climb with his boss again. Even if it won’t be anymore this season. The great longing for Hertha remains the new return to the Bundesliga.
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Apparently a transfer
Hertha only had in summer for the Happiness Cristian Fiél a transfer paid. Although this was wrong, the Klammen Berliners also reach into the cash register for Leitl. Despite the leave of absence at his old club Hannover 96, the Lower Saxony demanded a low six -figure sum for Hertha’s desired coach. After all: In contrast to Fiél, Leitl knows how an ascent feels. In 2021 he led the SpVgg Greuther Fürth to the Bundesliga.
That is why he was one of the favorites in the search for Pal Dardai’s successor before the season. Hertha boss Zecke Neuendorf and Leitl are old friends from times together as a player in Ingolstadt. In between, the new trainer will not need familiarization time. Anyway. However, Fiél was also estimated at the office for his human nature. That didn’t bring points. After Defeat in Düsseldorf (1: 2) Hertha is only five points in front of the relegation place 16.
Between result printing and the Bundesliga project
Against Fortuna, Hertha offered an appealing performance over long distances. However, it was not enough for a win. Because the team missed great opportunities miserably. And because the team defensively fell into a five -minute deep sleep again this season. When she woke up, the Düsseldorf team had turned the game.
This is exactly where Leitl has to start. If he does not manage to make the players concentrate better, he will also fail. His time in Hanover speaks for the fact that Leitl can support the faithful old lady. When 96 sent him to the forced vacation shortly before New Year’s Eve, the team made the best defense against the league.
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Hannover boss Martin Kind also praised this. Leitl has been very involved in the past two and a half years, worked responsibly and results -oriented. “And also a certain stability,” continued Kind. At least this season it would be enough for those responsible at Hertha.
Fiél felt that the expectation is actually different. Although Neuendorf and sports director Benjamin Weber sold the supports Marc-Oliver Kempf and Haris Tabakovic without replacement, his clear order was the promotion. In the coming summer, Ibrahim Maza and Fabian Reese will likely go. With a weaker team, Leitl has to create more than its predecessor.
Leitl’s pragmatism is required
It is all the more important that the new trainer brings a game idea with which you can also win against better -occupied opponents. In Hanover, Leitl was considered a meticulous worker and analytical trainer. In the first half of the season, he had his team seven times with a chain of three times and ten times with four chains. To take up his service in Fürth, he called the 4-3-3 as his favorite system.
LEITL therefore adapts his line -up to the staff pragmatically. However, one thing is set independently of formations: his teams rarely play through the middle. Hanover initiated 35 percent of the attacks over links and 39 percent in the Hin series. The full -back most often start. 370 flanks were the top value of the league after the first half of the season.
Despite this great effort, the Hanoverians even scored five goals less in the first half of the season than Hertha. Among other things, because the team reaches very few dribbles in the league. In relation to this, Hertha has more individual quality than 96 with players such as Maza, Reese and Michal Karbownik. But an accurate buyer for flanks is already missing all season. In the coming weeks, Leitl should adapt and rethink the Berlin conditions. Otherwise the second half of the season for Hertha remains tough.
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Leitl directly under pressure
His anecdote from Hanover shows the decisive role of football in Stefan Leitl’s life. There he lived with his assistant coach Mijatovic in a flat share. There were always arguments. Because Mijatovic is an incredibly strong personality, said Leitl. He doesn’t need anyone who only speaks to him. It fits well to Berlin, where, in addition to the club management and fans, particularly critical media will follow each of his steps.
The pressure is great. The fallen giant Hertha BSC not only plays for points in the league, but also about his survival in professional football. Even before this season, CFO Tom Herrich described the promotion as “without an alternative”. This also applies in the coming season. After all, those responsible learned from a mistake in the summer. Fell also had a assistant coach that he wanted to bring to Hertha. At that time, Weber and Neuendorf refused this wish.
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