May 10th saw the skies above Berlin clear a little as over 76,000 fans made their way to the match in the Olympiastadion. The trains were packed with blue, white and yellow. When we arrived the Terracen by the South gates was packed with Dortmund fans - I think I was wearing the only Hertha shirt there!
Ok the match plan fell apart after 40 minutes and I'd rather not think about how it went. Hertha nearly made it to half time before the flood gates opened with two goals in three minutes from Lewandowski and Jolic. This was to be mirrored forty minutes later by another brace, this time by a a free kick from Lewandowski and two minutes later a goal from Mkhitaryan. Previous posts talked about our back line, well, at one point Marco Reus was left totally unmarked at the edge of the box waiting for a cross that luckily didn't happen on that particular occasion. It wasn't zonal and it wasn't man marking but I guess someone attacked the ball before it got to Reus. Not sure it was a Hertha player though. You just can't play like that and expect not to get hammered.
The heaviest defeat I can recall watching in the Olympiastadion but the atmosphere in the build up was great. I've added a few pictures below to give you a bit of a flavour of the build up.
The visiting Dortmund fans put up a good show as well - credit where it's due . . . a little "Yellow Wall" in the capital.
By half way through the match it had clouded over and the temperature dropped. Perhaps the skies over Berlin were watching the match with increasing concern as well.
Still, it rained overnight so those skies had a good cry and by the following day the sun was back out again - HaHoHe Hertha BSC.
(Enough of the weather metaphor!)
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