Dark Before the Dark

By: Abby | October 23rd, 2009

It doesn’t get easier.

13,334 showed up to the cavernous Olympiastadion on Thursday to see Hertha lose 1-0 to Heerenveen, a team ranked third from bottom in the Dutch league. Like us, they’d been struggling after a successful previous season (coming in 5th and winning the Dutch cup), and sacked their manager. It would have been the time for us to turn something around, but as seemingly usual, it wasn’t.

It was slightly less awful, though. We had chances, it was only a 1-0 loss, and a potential penalty at the end could have given us a draw and a bit of hope. Of course, those chances were all missed and the penalty wasn’t given. But I’ll take what I can get at this point.

It’s not the best preparation for the next game, but it’s hard to see it as anything but a writeoff anyway. Defending champions Wolfsburg come for a visit, and while they may not be as mighty as they were at the end of last season, they’re still pretty formidable. Certainly compared to us.

News is that Grafite is taking a mental-health day after his red card in Turkey, so there’s one striker we won’t have to worry about. Not that there aren’t others.

The only good news is that there’s a good chance we’ll see Jaroslav Drobny, by far the best of our crew of goalkeepers. We’ve missed him greatly since he’s been injured, and just having someone of his quality on the field can only help.

I don’t think we’ll get anything out of Sunday, but maybe we can suck just a little less. I hope, anyway.

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• Jefferson |  October 24th, 2009 at 12:27 am

  
  
  

  Maybe Hertha should take a page out of Wolfsburg’s book with the mental health day idea. We could start with Friedrich, Ebert, Raffa, Cicero, Stein, Artur…

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• Juliet |  October 24th, 2009 at 8:54 am

  
  
  

  Drobny back is really good news.

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• Santosh |  October 24th, 2009 at 11:18 am

  
  
  

  I don’t see this match on TV anywhere for me. Maybe that’s a good thing.

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• Abby |  October 24th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

  
  
  

  But would they have to come back, Jefferson?

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• Jefferson |  October 25th, 2009 at 6:20 am

  
  
  

  Sad but true, Abby, sad but true. It’s a drizzly, grey day here in Berlin ahead of what I assume is going to be an ugly beating. Let’s hope the Wolves are feeling well fed and lethargic.

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• Santosh |  October 25th, 2009 at 9:23 am

  
  
  

  Wow what a result!!!!! One point never felt better. Maybe I should never watch!

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• Jefferson |  October 25th, 2009 at 9:34 am

  
  
  

  Unbelievable. According to the live play-by-play I was forced to rely on at work, we were apparently the better side in the first half.

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• Abby |  October 25th, 2009 at 9:48 am

  
  
  

  Totally stunned. Reuters described the performance as “spirited.” Spirited!

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• Dan |  October 26th, 2009 at 5:38 am

  
  
  

  Most of the reports are focusing on a change in effort over any tactical switches, which is great news.

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