Ex-Mainz before Aus in Berlin
Sandro Schwarz wobbles after Hertha crash at Schalke
04/15/2023, 00:00
Hertha BSC has held on to coach Sandro Schwarz for a long time. While all other clubs in the table basement usually change course early on, the Berliners want to stay up in the league with the ex-Mainzer. After the debacle at Schalke 04, the tone changes. Schwarz’s chair wobbles violently.
After Hertha BSC’s crushing defeat at Schalke 04, Benjamin Weber avoided a job guarantee for coach Sandro Schwarz. “We’ll go home now, of course analyze it, talk to everyone. But of course we’ll turn every stone now,” said the sports director after the 2: 5 (1: 2) and the fall to the bottom of the table at DAZN : “We are brutally disappointed and will get a real kick in the face over the next few days.”
“Now is the wrong moment to start a personnel discussion,” Weber explained. Schwarz himself took the statements with composure. “I’m part of the group and I’m mainly responsible for it. I’m responsible, we’re 18th in the table. It’s completely legitimate for Benjamin Weber to say that.”
He wanted to “let it sink in and sleep on it for a night,” said Schwarz: “Then it’s time to analyze what we didn’t do well.” Even without distance to the game, it was clear to the coach: “The defensive behavior broke our necks. There were far too many mistakes that were punished immediately.”
First against Bremen, then to Bayern
Meanwhile, Weber repeatedly emphasized that there was a “clear” approach without defining it in more detail. “We’ve had so many changes, we need rest at the club,” he said. This is much easier with sporting success.
For Hertha’s defender Marvin Plattenhardt it was “not a performance in many areas”, he grumbled: “We weren’t there in the duels, we had defensive mistakes and problems”. The fact that his team conceded five goals from Schalke was “incredible”.
Next weekend, Hertha BSC welcomes the midfield team from Bremen to their home Olympic Stadium. After that, the Berliners will go to record champions Bayern Munich in the Allianz Arena. Last season, the club in the capital, which was already in danger of relegation, changed coaches before the 27th matchday. Felix Magath replaced the unlucky Tayfun Korkut. The coach icon managed to save Hertha in the relegation against Hamburg.