Early snow and late goal

By: Abby | November 12th, 2007

No snow day for Berlin
I wasn’t shocked when I read that there was a late goal scored in the Hertha Berlin game on Saturday. That’s fairly common. What was a pleasant surprise was that the late goal was scored by Hertha. Also, that it was scored by Andre Lima. And it was the winner.

A view of the conditions. Snow greeted the fans at the Olympiastadion, with the field covered by a fine dusting of white by kickoff. With the conditions the way they were it was perhaps not destined to be a classic. Gilberto had a long-range shot on goal after 3 minutes, then another at 20. The conditions limited what could be done, with short passes going nowhere, long passes not really reaching their target, and snow and water being kicked up into a fabulous spray when anything did happen. Still, Hertha were apparently fairly dominant in the first 45 and Drobny had nary a save to make. It wasn’t all good, though, as top scorer Marko Pantelic was off at 36 minutes with injury.

Hannover came out determined in the second half and Drobny had a few saves to make. Hertha righted themselves eventually and Andre Lima, who’d come in when Pantelic came off, had a goal ruled out for offside. But he didn’t let that or the snow discourage him. Four minutes from time Malik Fathi found the Brazilian, who knocked it past Enke at close range. That won it for the Berliners, although it took a bit of luck as Mike Hanke managed to miss a free header in the box in the third minute of stoppage time. Brazilian celebrations

A good result in the end for Hertha BSC. It’s great to see Lima finally get his name on the scoresheet, as he came in with a high reputation this summer from Brazil but has yet to really prove himself in the Bundesliga (and he apparently wasn’t the Brazilian striker that Favre really wanted- that honor was held by FC Zurich’s Rafael de Araújo). Hopefully this is a sign of things to come from the young Brazilian. The injury to Pantelic is a bit more worrying, as he’s the current top scorer for Hertha, but it doesn’t seem to have been too serious as he’s joined up with the Serbia squad for their next qualifiers. Hopefully he comes through those unscathed and ready for the away game at Karlsruhe on the 23rd.

I found a good video of highlights (and snow!), but it doesn’t seem to want to embed, so you’ll have to click on the link if you want to check it out.


13. Spieltag Hertha BSC Berlin – Hannover 96 10.11… – MyVideo





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  • Corey |  November 12th, 2007 at 8:32 pm

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    Good recap, keep up the good work

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  • Bruno Romani |  November 12th, 2007 at 8:37 pm

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    dude, don’t expect too much of someone who was on the bench of Botafogo.

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  • Jan |  November 12th, 2007 at 9:35 pm

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    Good result for Berlin.:-) Though, I heard that the team is a bit in trouble. They have to play Karlsruhe next Friday and Gilberto and Mineiro won’t be back from Brazil’s national team until Friday, so they most probably won’t be able to play. And all the other players on duty for their national teams won’t get a lot of rest either. Karlsruhe definitely has an advantage there, since they don’t have a lot/any(?) players playing for their countries.

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  • Abby |  November 12th, 2007 at 9:49 pm

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    Thanks, Corey. And Bruno- I tend to hope for the best for players, I’m a bit of an optimist (until the game actually starts, and then I expect the worst to happen every single time). But I’ll keep that in mind as far as Lima goes…

    Jan: I read that too. It’s a real shame, especially since Karlsruhe’s been surprisingly good lately. There’s a surprisingly large amount of Hertha players on international duty next week. I’m planning on doing a post on it sometime this week…

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  • Angharad |  November 13th, 2007 at 9:34 am

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    Aw, your mascot is so cute. Not as cute as Stuttgart’s, mind, but cute nonetheless. (And that winning goal was offside. But since it was against Hannover and they annoy me, I won’t hold it against you.)

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  • Abby |  November 13th, 2007 at 1:40 pm

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    Yes, but our mascot is Brazilian for no discernible reason. That’s got to be worth something. (And yes, it was, but if there’s no flag, I’ll take it! Consider it a trade for Arsenal’s goal that was disallowed yesterday.)

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  • Jan |  November 13th, 2007 at 2:23 pm

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    I know the story of Hertha’s mascot and why it’s Brazilian! An epic tale of good versus evil – brave heroes and beautiful princesses and football. Anyone wanna hear it?

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  • Abby |  November 13th, 2007 at 5:20 pm

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    I want to hear it! My limited German can’t seem to discern anything other than Dieter Hoeness putting it in a suitcase, or something. (Did I mention my German is limited?)

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