FC Schalke 04 loses in Bundesliga at Hertha BSC in Berlin

Tkeeper Alexader Schwolow sat blankly on the bench, striker Marius Bülter shook his head in disappointment on the pitch. The late 1:2 (0:0) defeat at Hertha BSC was the next sporting low blow for the new Bundesliga bottom side Schalke 04. With his goal in the 88th minute, Wilfried Kanga gave the Berliners one on Sunday evening at the end of the eleventh matchday late triumph that really hurt the guests. Only three minutes earlier, Schalke’s Florent Mollet (85′) had equalized the Hertha lead through Lucas Tousart (49′), but that wasn’t enough for Gelsenkirchen in the first game under interim coach Matthias Kreutzer.

“We don’t look good when it comes to conceding. We were better in the first half, then it wasn’t so easy to deal with a setback,” Bülter said on DAZN: “Overall, it was a performance that we can build on, but it’s still extremely bitter.” According to the 29-year-old Bülter said it was important to “continue to work hard”. One point “would have been important for morale,” said the attacker: “It’s not nice like that again.” It was the sixth competitive defeat in a row for Schalke. The team slipped to last place after the previous bottom-placed VfL Bochum beat leaders Union Berlin (2-1). The Hertha team under Sandro Schwarz, on the other hand, scored again after five games without a win and jumped to 13th place.

The promoted team from Gelsenkirchen parted ways with Kramer on Wednesday after just four months after a weak start to the season and the significant cup defeat in Hoffenheim. The search for a coach continues. “It’s a process,” said sports director Rouven Schröder at DAZN before the game. A new head coach is to be presented in the new week. Kreutzer was very self-confident and addressed all the important things very directly, praised Schröder. The 39-year-old, who says he has no ambitions to become the boss, made five changes to the team compared to the cup game. Schalke has had a lot of failures, especially on the defensive.

Bülter’s goals don’t count

There was one special returnee for the Berliners: Jean-Paul Boëtius was back in the squad just a few weeks after his testicular cancer operation, but did not start. Black opted for a two-forward formation. In addition to Stevan Jovetic, Wilfried Kanga also started from the start. The new offensive forces drew attention to themselves. Schalke’s Marius Bülter, one of the five newcomers, scored the supposed lead for the miners with a great direct acceptance in the 15th minute. However, after a review by the video referee, the goal was disallowed for an offside position. The 29-year-old former Unioner shot the ball into the goal again six minutes into the game, but it was offside again.