4200 Hertha fans will support their team in the game at Borussia Dortmund on Saturday. At the runner -up, the Berliners want to collect the point for their own rescue after two assigned match balls (1: 1 in Bielefeld, 1: 2 against Mainz). If this succeeds, you may not care what competitor VfB Stuttgart brings against 1. FC Köln at the same time. Felix Magath believes that the neck strike lasted last weekend when his own home game against Mainz missed and resulted in the lecture and result and the Stuttgart from Munich.
- atmosphere was too relaxed in Berlin
- Schwarz is favorite on Magath's succession
- general meeting on May 29
- Windhorst wants to speak to the members
"Of course we were disappointed because we were just before. There were only a few minutes to realize the relegation," says the coach. "But we talked about it and made it clear again that we are on the right track and deliver our performance and also keep against better teams. So we now have the mood that we are trusting to achieve something in Dortmund. With this certainty that we can do that, we also go there. "
After all: In two of the past five Hertha guest games at BVB, the outsider scored (2-2 in October 2018, 1-1 in October 2016). At the last Hertha-Sieg in Dortmund-three days before Christmas Eve 2013 (2-1 for Hertha)-the then widely unknown 18-year-old goalkeeper Marius Gersbeck (since 2019 at Karlsruher SC) grew beyond his Bundesliga debut. Magath also needs a strong goalkeeper and a gripping team in Marcel Lotka on Saturday.
atmosphere was too relaxed in Berlin
The eleven were lacking the eleventh week ago against Mainz, some professionals might have already thought they were saved. "The atmosphere was very relaxed last week," says Magath. "A player cannot avoid this atmosphere. This has meant that we were not quite as intense as 14 days before. Our situation is not quite as comfortable now. We are not a favorite, but the outsider. The outsider. There is great tension, but that's a tension that we need. "
Magaths record - ten points from seven games - reads solidly given the circumstances. Only the last step in the most difficult mission of his coaching career is missing - for weeks. "When I came here, everything was full of resignation and hopelessness. Nobody - or a few - gave us a chanterelle," says Magath. "We got the curve and developed a great starting situation. The minimum goal of not getting off directly. Now we want to reach the maximum goal. There is a reason why we have hope: because we have stabilized. We have Stabilized us so that we don't have to be afraid of Borussia Dortmund. "
Schwarz is favorite on Magath's succession
Ten years after the relegation against Fortuna Düsseldorf, when Hertha - after the scandal -prone return leg in Düsseldorf - had to start the way to the lower house, the club wants to bring this extremely turbulent 2021/22 season to a glimpse: after 34 games, not after 36, even if Magath has almost brought about the relegation for weeks. Even now he says: "I can't see the future. I have to plan with the relegation." One thing is clear: after the season, his job is also done at Hertha in the event of relegation. Favorite on Magath's successor is Sandro Schwarz, for whom Dynamo Moscow in the Russian cup final against Spartak Moscow on May 29 is a title. It is also clear that the assessment of the first year on Hertha Managing Director Fredi Bobic depends significantly on the end of the season.
general meeting on May 29
For the club, which turns 130 in July, these days are not only a lot of sport. At the latest at the general meeting on May 29, Hertha has to answer the question of how to tackle the future. The signs are at the beginning. President Werner Gegenbauer, at the helm since 2008, offers as much attack space with the sporting and financial record of his term as with the external presentation. His dusting with investor Lars Windhorst culminated in a stalemate situation months ago that paralyzes the club in parts and stirs up unrest. The relationship between the Presidium and the Supervisory Board is also not tension -free. Two election requests against counterbauers - by Sebastian Stargard and Nils Korte - have been available for the general meeting in the exhibition hall 20 so far, one of which is directed against opposite farmer and his long -time Vice Thorsten Manske. According to the statutes, there would be 75 percent approval of the members present.
Windhorst wants to speak to the members
Windhorst, who has not yet positioned his own candidate, wants to speak to the members for the first time on May 29. With Kay Bernstein, a founding member of the Ultra Group "Harlekins Berlin '98" over two decades ago and owner of a marketing, communication and event management agency for years, a candidate has ventured out of cover as a potential counter-builder successor who Club, especially in terms of culture and communication, wants to fundamentally change.
The permanent sporting stagnation despite the 375 million euro investment by Windhorst, miserable communication, image damage, the years of standstill at the new stadium construction project for the club-against the farmer has pushed all of this into the defensive. In the case of the third descent under his aegis (after 2010 and 2012), the entrepreneur elected by 2024 would withdraw, which he announced even after the second relegation. In the meantime, another scenario is becoming more and more realistic: that opposite farmer is already free before May 29th for a new beginning at the head of the association and thus the expected punishment for the expected penalty. Magath's mission could be fulfilled on Saturday. The exciting, trend -setting weeks at Hertha BSC will continue.
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