Important home win: Bielefeld pulls Hertha BSC into the relegation battle

Stand: 9:31 p.m. | Reading time: 3 minutes

Bruno Labbadia had buried his hands deep in the pockets of his light brown coat and stood petrified on the edge of the field for a long time. Once again he was disappointed by his Hertha, not much of the previous goals remained after the 0: 1 (0: 0) defeat at Arminia Bielefeld on Sunday.

Relegation battle instead of European Cup dreams, is the motto for the Berliners, who simply cannot move in the Bundesliga and have to look further down.

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Bielefeld coach Neuhaus

“It was an even game. Bielefeld accepted the fight more in the decisive situations. We weren’t a little awake then. We have to learn from this and draw the conclusions, “said Hertha captain Niklas Stark and added:” We have to approach such games properly. If you get resistance, also physically, we have to accept it better. “

After the defeat at the end of the 15th matchday, the relegation place now occupied by 1. FC Köln is only five points away for the capital club, while the European Cup places they are aiming for are nine points away. Cologne are the next opponent of Berlin on Saturday, they and possibly coach Bruno Labbadia should not allow themselves another defeat.

Held Yabo

The East Westphalia, on the other hand, left the last three places for the first time since the end of November and are only three points behind the Berliners after their fourth win of the season. Reinhold Yabo scored the golden goal for the weakest offensive in the league with his first Bundesliga goal (64th).

“I’m just happy that we won the game. The season hasn’t been easy for us so far. We played a good game for over 90 minutes and we were rewarded, ”said match winner Yabo, adding:“ We were able to take a big step and have proven to ourselves that we can play football.

Hertha was the dominant team at the beginning and could have taken the lead early on. Striker Jhon Cordoba was staged well twice (7th / 10th), but failed to hit the ball properly on both occasions. Then the game slowed down. Hertha was dominant, but without Matheus Cunha, who was missing for a short time due to groin problems, almost all creativity was missing. The Arminia, on the other hand, did not enter dangerous areas at all.

Referee in focus

In the 35th minute, the game started moving. Herthas Niklas Stark had hit Fabian Klos in the penalty area while running backwards with his arm against the chest. Referee Guido Winkmann initially decided on a penalty and, to the surprise of many, took this decision back after 4:13 minutes of video evidence.

After the break, Arminia were suddenly the better and dominant team and almost quickly took the lead. After a ricochet from Fernandez Aldarete, Sergio Cordova only hit the side netting from the turn (48th). A quarter of an hour later the 1-0 fell.

Berlin’s Lucas Tousart unhappily extended a long throw-in from Cedric Brunner with his head, Yabo asserted himself against Stark and gave the former Bielefeld Alexander Schwolow no chance with a shot under the crossbar. The Berliners, who were only ten at the time because of an injury-related treatment of Jessic Ngankam, protested in vain because of an alleged foul on Stark.

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Hertha was now shocked, Arminia elated. With a shot by Ritsu Doan from almost 20 meters, the post prevented the 2-0 (70th). Labbadia lamented and cursed on the sidelines and changed offensively, but his team didn’t really get any better. Krzysztof Piatek’s equalizing goal was rightly not given due to handball (84th).