Another day and another match saw Hertha returns to the Olympiastadion on a damp, dark night to face the visiting VfL Wolfsburg an match day 28. The goal drought discussed in my last post was long over thanks to the points provider in Hamburg as a result fans were looking forward to some entertainment and hopefully some more points.
The weather made it a pretty miserable night to be honest and kicking off at 20:30 hours on Easter weekend did little to help the turnout. A shade under 35,000 made it to the stadium to support Hertha which left a few echos rattling around the Olympiastadion but the kurve still sang and did their thing.
On the night the Old Lady started with a 4231 formation with Vedad Ibesivic up front. It wasn’t all bad and I don’t recall Rune Jarstein being seriously challenged although he came scarily close to gifting the visitors a goal. With what would have been a real shocker had he not recovered the situation in the last second.
There were some nice passages of play with passes being strung together and some great pieces of individual skill from the likes of Leckie and Maier. However some of the long ball passes went woefully astray including some clangers from Maxi Mittelstädt that killed any possibility of a successful attack/counterattack. It appeared the team were missing the input from Plattenhardt and Lazaro.
It was not the most impressive game I had ever witnessed I think it’s fair to say. You never know who’s going to turn up when Hertha come out to play. The long awaited end to the goal drought during the Hamburger SV away game (448 minutes) with goals from Lazaro (voted Bundesliga “Rookie of the month” for March) and Kalou did not result in Hertha raining goals.
The closest of the goal scoring opportunities came from a shot from Maxi Mittelstädt from the edge of the box that the Wolsfburg keeper only just got down to in time.
The one saving grace of this goalless, dark, wet rather miserable night was the fact it was “supplemented” by a little pyro display put on by the visiting supporters. I guess they wanted to block out the superior support in the Ostkurve with the smoke. A few photos as a picture paints a thousand words . . . or so they say.
The weather made it a pretty miserable night to be honest and kicking off at 20:30 hours on Easter weekend did little to help the turnout. A shade under 35,000 made it to the stadium to support Hertha which left a few echos rattling around the Olympiastadion but the kurve still sang and did their thing.
On the night the Old Lady started with a 4231 formation with Vedad Ibesivic up front. It wasn’t all bad and I don’t recall Rune Jarstein being seriously challenged although he came scarily close to gifting the visitors a goal. With what would have been a real shocker had he not recovered the situation in the last second.
There were some nice passages of play with passes being strung together and some great pieces of individual skill from the likes of Leckie and Maier. However some of the long ball passes went woefully astray including some clangers from Maxi Mittelstädt that killed any possibility of a successful attack/counterattack. It appeared the team were missing the input from Plattenhardt and Lazaro.
It was not the most impressive game I had ever witnessed I think it’s fair to say. You never know who’s going to turn up when Hertha come out to play. The long awaited end to the goal drought during the Hamburger SV away game (448 minutes) with goals from Lazaro (voted Bundesliga “Rookie of the month” for March) and Kalou did not result in Hertha raining goals.
The closest of the goal scoring opportunities came from a shot from Maxi Mittelstädt from the edge of the box that the Wolsfburg keeper only just got down to in time.
The one saving grace of this goalless, dark, wet rather miserable night was the fact it was “supplemented” by a little pyro display put on by the visiting supporters. I guess they wanted to block out the superior support in the Ostkurve with the smoke. A few photos as a picture paints a thousand words . . . or so they say.
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