Christian Ilzer in Hoffenheim following in the footsteps of Julian Nagelsmann

A week before the duel with the German record champions, TSG Hoffenheim celebrated a confident 3-1 win against Union Berlin and thus the fifth success in a row. Before Dortmund’s home game against Heidenheim on Sunday, Hoffenheim had already taken second place in the Bundesliga. Next Sunday the team of the former storm master maker will be in Munich.

With their seventh Bundesliga home win in a row, the Ilzer team set Hoffenheim’s previous record from 2017 under a successful coach Julian Nagelsmann a. “We can take that with us on our way. But that’s certainly not what we have in our heads,” asserted Ilzer. Under Nagelsmann, Hoffenheim also made it into the Champions League.

A goal that Christian Ilzer and his team can gradually have in mind.

Penalty foul from Querfeld

Leopold Querfeld was unlucky enough to cause the penalty that gave Hoffenheim a 1-0 lead on Saturday. The Viennese wanted to clean up a high ball, but Hoffenheim’s Asllani had his foot on the ball earlier and was hit cross-field. Kramaric loaded Union keeper Rönnow and confidently rolled the ball into the Berlin goal. Until the 42nd minute, the Berlin defense had not allowed anything to happen around Querfeld. Hoffenheim coach Christian Ilzer used the VAR interruption to intensively coach his players. Before the break it was already 2-0. Kramaric headed in a Toure cross. The same thing continued after the break. In the first attack after the restart, Berlin defender Leite deflected a Toure cross into his own goal (48th) – 3-0 for Hoffenheim.

“It was a lot of hard work. It was a battle of attrition until we made it 1-0,” said the sports director Andreas Schicker.

Something good comes from Augsburg: team striker Michael Gregoritsch stormed against St. Pauli from the start and not only scored the goal to make it 1-1, but also the winning goal to make it 2-1 for Augsburg.