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The penultimate match of 2013/14 - Bremen

5/3/2014

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It appears the Hertha squad travelling to Bremen for the game on Saturday includes the following: Kraft, Jarstein, Pekarik, Langkamp, Janker, Hosogai, Ndjeng, Ben-Hatira, Allagui, Ronny, Skjelbred, Niemeyer, Van den Bergh, Brooks, Schulz, Wagner, Mukhtar and Ramos. A Flipagram from Hertha shows them in shirt number order . .

http://instagram.com/p/nfv3nIpmDo/

Instagram pictures from Nico Schulz show Nico with Hajime Hosogai and Adrian Ramos on the train!

http://instagram.com/p/nf-ysUCjgI/

With both sides being safe from the drop but no chance of Europe this game could go anywhere. Both teams are playing for pride only and the players are playing for their pecking order next season. That's not to say that either one, or indeed both of those motivations are not valid and more than sufficient to produce a cracking game on Saturday.

Well, I'm not sure it was exactly a "cracking game" but the team was laid out with intent.  Jos Luhukay started with both Ramos and Allagui up front in an effort to give us the firepower we have sadly lacked of late.

It however, wasn't to be.  Although Hertha had a few chances they all came to nought.  It ready came unstuck in the 48th minute when Aaron Hunt put the ball into the top right corner after a neat one-two that cut through the defence.  The death nail was hammered home in the 90th minute again by Aaron Hunt. 

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These are interesting times for Hertha and Hertha fans.  The Hinrunde for Hertha was a remarkable success - far better than most fans even dared to dream of back in May 2013.  Although the team had dominated in the 2. Bundesliga and was promoted with a record number of points, nobody expected to continue in the top flight in the same vein.  The 6:1 victory against Eintracht Frankfurin in the first game felt like a dream with Hertha topping the table!  The impressive Hinrunde ended away in Dortmund with another three points for the "Old Lady" bringing her total to 28 points.

Then came the Ruckrunde.  Just thirteen points collected since the winter break with just one game to go is a pale shadow of last years performance.  This phenomenon is perhaps not unheard of for a newly promoted team, to fade as the season goes on but perhaps this is a little extreme!  It is hard to not ask yourself why?  The ability to score appears to have dried up. Chances come and go but the killer finish?  The team, so dependant on the goals (16) and assists (5) from Adrian Ramos, just appears to have run out of steam. 

It will be interesting to see what happens in the autumn after the summer break.  How will Adrian Ramos be replaced?  Will Lasogga return?  If so, will he stay fit?  Is it not dangerous to hang all of your hopes on one new player even if he were to return?  Somehow our attacking midfielders must be brought on to take a larger share of the tally.  On current form this leaves a lot of work for Jos Luhukay and his team over the summer. 




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