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If You Survive Me
By: Abby |
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In April, last season, the come-from-behind 2-1 win against Werder Bremen caused a lot of us to believe that we were really going to do something. True, it was late in a disappointing season for the northerners, and even truer, we’d been pounded on earlier in the season for the away game, but it was [...]
Geh’n Wir Nicht
By: Abby | 8 Comments
Rumors of our demise have been exaggerated.
Not, you know, that there wasn’t a reason to start them. 45 goalless minutes started the game, although the official Hertha liveticker (it’s very hard to watch a game when you’re supposed to be working) assured me that they had the better of the chances. But chances haven’t been [...]
All or Nothing
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Valeri Domovchiyski gave Hertha a lifeline in Denmark. The young Bulgarian scored the 1 in a 2-1 loss (and missed a chance for a 2), giving us a hope that we can overturn the result at the Jahn Sportpark. A 1-0 win would see us through.
My anxiety about the team was detailed pretty well [...]
I Blame GolTV For This
By: Abby | 4 Comments
Bochum hadn’t had a win yet. Politely, we gave it to them.
It’s the story of the first few games. We haven’t been looking too terrible, or at least we’ve been creating chances, but our scoring just hasn’t happened. It’s certainly worrying and it seems to be taking its toll on the confidence of the players. [...]
Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!
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Brøndby was somehow what I expected- a tough game from an opponent that I knew would never be easy. I couldn’t watch the game, being at work, but it seems like that was somewhat of the case. It seems like we had chances to equalize but couldn’t finish, and Artur Wichniarek limped off after half [...]
The Danish Play
By: Abby | 2 Comments
Tomorrow marks the arrival of Hertha BSC Berlin in Europe. Last season our European adventure seemed longer than it actually was, due to the long qualifying process that we had to go through with our status of Fair Play Champions (or whatever). FC Nistru Otaci, Interblock Ljubljana, and St. Patrick’s all fell on our way [...]
Category: europeOut-Hertha’d
By: Abby | 5 Comments
I think that’s the best description of Saturday’s game.
Over the past season we gained a reputation for taking our chances, turning lack of domination and possession into three points and generally baffling pundits with our ability to keep winning while not playing well in a conventional fashion. Borussia Mönchengladbach, after miraculously escaping relegation last [...]
The Tightrope
By: Abby | 7 Comments
There’s a fine line to managing Hertha this season. Success and failure are balanced on a razor’s edge, and there’s no room for error. Other teams can afford to make a few stumbles in the transfer market, but we truly can’t.
We also can’t really afford to keep players that aren’t, at the moment, completely [...]
Category: transfer newsGo Back To The Start
By: Abby | 12 Comments
A battling 1-0 win that my Bayern-supporting friend (bitterly, after I teased him about which team had won and which team didn’t on Saturday) referred to as “boring”?
Oh yes, it’s good to be back.
Hannover, much to my pessimistic predictions, put up more of a fight than they appeared capable of in pre-season. They had the [...]
It Begins
By: Abby | 6 Comments
It seems like only yesterday I was trying to forget the result of that Karlsruhe game. But tomorrow is August 8, which means that tomorrow is the very first game of the 2009-2010 Bundesliga season.
Our opponent is Hannover 96, who have been in a bit of a turmoil lately. They got knocked out of [...]
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