After the thrills and spills of last weeks encounter with the Zebras at the Olympiastadion Hertha travel down south to München to meet 1860 in Spieltag 26.
1860 have a bit of a mixed record of late; they have beaten Braunschweig but then they have lost against VfL Bochum who have been having torrid time of it in the Rückrunde. They are in mid table and wanting to climb a little higher at least whilst Hertha need to consolidate their lead and get of as many of the remaining 27 points as possible. Just 14 points will guarantee promotion!
Braunschweig meanwhile are on the road as well as they visit struggling (except against 1860) VfL Bochum this weekend. You have to fancy them taking three points there I think. Kaiserslautern, in third place are at home to Ingolstadt - that could be open up the playoff spot if 1FCK were to drop points at home.
The team published by Hertha via Twitter on the morning if the match is shown below - no Peter Niemeyer at all (he has flu along with Peer Kluge) and Fabian Holland is on the bench again . .
1860 have a bit of a mixed record of late; they have beaten Braunschweig but then they have lost against VfL Bochum who have been having torrid time of it in the Rückrunde. They are in mid table and wanting to climb a little higher at least whilst Hertha need to consolidate their lead and get of as many of the remaining 27 points as possible. Just 14 points will guarantee promotion!
Braunschweig meanwhile are on the road as well as they visit struggling (except against 1860) VfL Bochum this weekend. You have to fancy them taking three points there I think. Kaiserslautern, in third place are at home to Ingolstadt - that could be open up the playoff spot if 1FCK were to drop points at home.
The team published by Hertha via Twitter on the morning if the match is shown below - no Peter Niemeyer at all (he has flu along with Peer Kluge) and Fabian Holland is on the bench again . .
| The first half was not an inspiring display although Hertha retained 55% of the posession and got six shots away for 1860s three. The shots however, were mostly long distance affairs with little real threat. The second half got off to a slightly more brisk start but "Die Löwen" were having the best if it and Hertha were lucky not to go a goal down. Jos Luhukay made his changes: Ben-Hatira for Schulz in the 66th, Sami Allagui replaced by Ben Sahar in the 71st and Sandro Wagner on for Adrian Ramos with 10 minutes to go. All to no avail. |  |
The game ended in a disappointing 0:0 but a vital point for Hertha as Kumbela scored for Braunschweig in the 85th minute to bring them within a point of Hertha at the top of the table.
On Sunday Kaiserslautern won at home against Ingolstadt and so narrows the gap with Hertha to "just" twelve points with 24 points left to play for in eight games. We need twelve points from those remaining games to be sure FCK cannot catch us and that is by no means certain. We could still have a big fight on our hands depending on how FCK does in their matches but Köln could still put a spanner in their works and on Monday they took a major step towards that. They beat Dynamo Dresden 0:2 in Dresden. This means they are only one point off Kaiserslautern and that play off spot and thirteen ponts behind the OLd Lady.
It of course goes without saying that Braunschweig could put a spanner in our works on Spieltag 28! There is still a great deal to play for in this season . . . .
On Sunday Kaiserslautern won at home against Ingolstadt and so narrows the gap with Hertha to "just" twelve points with 24 points left to play for in eight games. We need twelve points from those remaining games to be sure FCK cannot catch us and that is by no means certain. We could still have a big fight on our hands depending on how FCK does in their matches but Köln could still put a spanner in their works and on Monday they took a major step towards that. They beat Dynamo Dresden 0:2 in Dresden. This means they are only one point off Kaiserslautern and that play off spot and thirteen ponts behind the OLd Lady.
It of course goes without saying that Braunschweig could put a spanner in our works on Spieltag 28! There is still a great deal to play for in this season . . . .
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