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1. Bundesliga: Hertha zero number against Schalke

Hertha BSC has invested the record sum of 80 million euros in its last-minute transfers this winter and wants to sweep the fans away. With the zero number against Schalke that did not succeed in any way.

By Christian Hornung

The first half of the opening game of the 20th game day was a festival of yawning boredom. Both teams outdid themselves in harmlessness and lack of ideas, the attack efforts seemed sluggish and downright, the game lacked speed and depth completely – 0: 0 was the logical result of this dreary event.

Caligiuri sees progress

Herthas Maximilian Mittelstädt said after the game on the sports show microphone: “We can be satisfied with the point. We went all out and knew that it was going to be a very competitive game. We defended well as a team. You can see that we are going to end who can set games again – we are on the right track. “

Schalke’s Daniel Caligiuri also saw the positive: “Of course we wanted to win. But we’re also glad that we kept the zero. Hertha was very low and was just waiting for a counterattack. It was important for us to react to that To show Bayern game, we got five, so this is a step forward. “

There was a hint of goal danger for the first time shortly before the break whistle: A 16-meter shot by Schalke’s Weston McKennie slightly deflected Mittelstädt, so that the ball rushed just over the bar.

Worse mistakes from Boyata

Even after the change of sides, little enlightenment did. The biggest chance of the game so far resulted in the 58th minute not from a brilliant performance, but from a catastrophic defense error. Hertha defender Dedryck Boyata played the ball across the board in his own penalty area – exactly in the feet of Schalke striker Benito Raman. He was unexpectedly completely free in front of Rune Jarstein, but was unable to spy the ball past the Berlin goalkeeper from an acute angle.

Shortly afterwards, the most expensive new entry in Hertha history came into play: Krsysztof Piatek, who had just been signed by AC Milan for around 27 million euros, replaced Marius Wolf in the 63rd minute. It was time: Until then, the Berliners had not brought a single shot to the Schalke goal.

Piatek immediately dangerous

And Piatek was promptly dangerous: When Schalke goalkeeper Alexander Nübel stuck on the line after a corner from Herthan, the Pole headed the ball just past the left corner of the goal in the 73rd minute. After that, the attacking efforts flattened out again, and in the 87th minute Berlin was lucky that the guests did not take the lead: After a class cross from Bastian Oczipka, Michael Gregoritsch’s header missed the goal by just a few centimeters.

Shortly before the final whistle, the Berliners also had a match ball again – but Mittelstädt completed a counterattack with a cross shot just next to the right post.

See you again in the DFB Cup

Hertha will now compete against 1. FSV Mainz 05 in the league next Saturday (08.02.20). Schalke also hosts SC Paderborn. Before that, however, both teams are still challenged in the DFB Cup – on Tuesday (04.02.20) in a direct duel against Schalke (live ticker from 8.30 p.m. on sportschau.de).

Source: sportschau.de

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