Standard goals seven and eight saw Hertha BSC lose to Freiburg. Coach Pal Dardai didn’t want to sugarcoat anything – and can’t head the balls away himself.
“We have to continue to work hard and consistently after games against good opponents and implement the things from training, then we’ll be able to get three points again,” said Hertha coach Pal Dardai ahead of the game against SC Freiburg, confident that he could make up for the heavy 6-0 defeat to RB Leipzig. However, 90 minutes and two standard goals later, the Berliners were once again empty-handed and could not follow up their last heavy defeat (0:5 against Bayern) with a win (3:1 against Bochum).
Have conceded 20 goals, eight from standards
“There’s nothing to sugarcoat. Today we lost because of the standard goals,” Dardai summed up the game on “Sky”. The goals conceded were standard goals seven and eight of the current season. In total, keeper Alexander Schwolow has already had to fish the leather out of the net 20 times.
“Actually, it was a pity”, the coach thought, because after Krzysztof Piatek had equalised in the meantime, his team almost scored the 2:1 through Jurgen Ekkelenkamp (74.). But because the young Dutchman only hit the crossbar and on the other side only four minutes later Nils Petersen once again proved his joker qualities, it was 1-2 from the Berlin point of view.
“The spaces were there, the chances were there, but we didn’t make them,” continued Dardai. However, the Berliners did not create too many chances. In the first half, only Stevan Jovetic (15th) and Marco Richter (27th) were dangerous, in the second half Hertha managed almost nothing until the equaliser (70th). For Serdar, this was also due to a lack of self-confidence: “We got six goals against Leipzig last week. I don’t think everyone’s confidence is too high now.” Nevertheless, he also agreed with his coach: “We mustn’t get two corner kick goals, that mustn’t happen to us. “
“Those were two standard situations again. I can’t go there and head. “
PAL DARDAI
For Dardai, who had ordered Kevin-Prince Boateng, Dedryck Boyata and also Stevan Jovetic into the starting eleven, the defeat was not down to his tactical formation. “Today you can’t say that we messed up. There were two standard situations again. I can’t go there and head. “
Further with Dardai?
For sporting director Fredi Bobic, the defeat was “very annoying, but it’s not that the team didn’t want it”. He saw “many players who went beyond their limits” – but it wasn’t enough. During the international break, the Berliners now want to continue working to bring something back onto the pitch. If Serdar has his way, he will continue to work with Dardai: “I’m behind the coach. He is a very good coach who also encourages me. “
Injured list is getting longer
The international break is not inconvenient for another reason. In addition to the already injured Lukas Klünter (shoulder surgery), Myziane Maolida (thigh injury) and Jordan Torunarigha (thigh injury), Marton Dardai (suspected muscle fibre tear in the thigh) and Marco Richter (horse kick after a duel with Nicolas Höfler) extend the Berlin lararett.
