You could hardly play it better than Hertha BSC. After the long diagonal ball from the right side, Florian Niederlechner continued the ball with the hoe on Fabian Reese. The striker of the Berlin second division team pulled towards the goal line, cut off and let his opponent run into the void. With his strong right foot, Reese targeted the short corner, but Johannes Schenk, the goalkeeper of Prussia Münster, was on hand and clarified the ball to the corner.
Even without the hoped -for yield, it was a really nice move by the Berliner. Unfortunately, her only one that evening. And unfortunately only in the fourth minute of stoppage time when the game was already decided in favor of the dropout and relegation candidate from Münster. In the end it was 0: 2 from the point of view of the Berlin.
It was an appropriate result for a game in which Hertha had delivered an unsatisfactory performance. Coach Stefan Leitl found his team “in the decision -making process and in the passports entirely, quite unclean”. That’s why she never really came into play: “Somehow nothing worked today.”
Leitl’s team had no longer lost seven games at a time and even won five of these seven games. On Friday evening, however, not only the small success series of the Berliners ended. It also ended what felt like the beginning of a march.
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Somehow nothing worked today.
Hertha’s trainer Stefan Leitl After the defeat in Münster
How do you motivate a team that has already achieved her – albeit modest – goal? For two weeks it has definitely been clear that Hertha will continue to play in the second division next season. Stefan Leitl then issued the goal of winning the outstanding three games – not least to take the momentum with you to the next season, when the third attempt should finally return to the Bundesliga.
In Münster, however, Leitl’s team reached its limits. Against a team who still fought for their sporting existence with all might and not only, like Hertha, a good feeling for the end of the season.
However, the truth also included that the Berliners could not compensate for their personnel problems this time. Hertha, including the yellow -locked defense chief Toni Leistner and, because he had injured himself while warming up, was also missing a complete eleven.
Evil tongues claimed that the game on Friday evening was already a foretaste of the coming season when the highly talented Ibrahim Maza would play for Bayer Leverkusen and no longer for Hertha. Maza was on the pitch in Münster, but was somehow not really present. But that was also true for some of his colleagues.
Scherhann can go for two million
The hope that things under Stefan Leitl will continuously develop in the right direction and Hertha Weg will inevitably lead back to the Bundesliga, received a first damper on Friday. Not only because of the poor appearance of the team, but also because of the news that the “kicker” spread around two hours after the game final.
Accordingly, Derry Scherhann Hertha announced that he will leave the club after the season. His contract is said to contain an exit clause that allows the 22 -year -old offensive player this summer, two years before his contract, a change – for the fixed transfer of two million euros.
For relatively small money, the Berliners would lose their second best goal scorers (after Fabian Reese) and their best scorer (together with Michael Cuisance) with seven goals and templates. According to reports, the first division clubs Borussia Mönchengladbach, SC Freiburg and Werder Bremen are interested in Scherhann.
The personnel shows which imponderables lurk on the planned path back to the Bundesliga. Nobody can currently say reliably with which personal Hertha will approach the project. Maza is definitely gone, also Scherbant also and right -back Jonjoe Kenny, one of the most reliable players in the two second division years, is also considered an almost fixed departure.
For this, striker Sebastian Grönning comes from the third division club Ingolstadt, whose obligation was also officially announced this week. With central defender Niklas Kolbe (Ulm) and midfielder Leon Jensen (KSC) this is still pending. Captain Leistner will remain. Michael Cuisance even extended his contract until 2029.
The key personnel are and remains Fabian Reese. Nobody doubts that the Berliners become everything in their power to keep the best player in the second division. But if you don’t completely misjudge Reese, it is not primarily about more money. He is concerned with the as short -term perspective of the Bundesliga.
Based on this, Friday with the defeat in Münster and the news about Derry Scherhann was really not a good day for Hertha BSC.