Second division football team Hertha BSC wants to achieve this with great confidence Christmas continue to catch up in the standings. “Every win is of course good and the way we perform is fine. You just need to get it on the pitch week after week,” said coach Stefan Leitl before the duel with relegation candidates Eintracht Braunschweig at the Olympic Stadium, Friday night (18.30/Sky).
The Berlin team has won four competitive matches in a row and is just three points behind the third place in the relegation zone.
Leitl sees two main reasons for the upward trend. Everyone subordinates himself to the team, “everyone tries to work well and – we have talked about this before – also packs their egos into their pockets in order to act successfully as a team”.
The last five series took place over 20 years ago
The large number of players returning like Paul Seguin and Diego Demme will be good for the team. “The players are doing very well in training. We have a very high level of intensity,” said the 48-year-old. “The idea of performance came back to the fore because I also had to fight for my place in the squad.”
With a win on Friday, the teams would also make it a tie Herta hasn’t been around for a long time. The last time a Berlin team won five competitive matches in a row was in 2001/2002, when Pal Dardai was still a player. The last time four consecutive league wins occurred was in the 2012/2013 season.
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