Hertha BSC Berlin - Bor. M'Gladbach

After having a lot of trouble at the end of last Season, Hertha is showing a lot of improvements this Season. They can maybe be the surprise team this Season because every Season we have such a team who is not on the list of the experts like Augsburg was last Season. The work from Coach Dardai is excellent and he has found the right mix this Season. Additional Manager Preetz signed some good players which match very well into Dardai’s system what their success from the first Rounds showed so far. Of course they are riding a wave of success and aiming for more, they are hungry and like to continue this way. Key fact of their success is their good defensive play and they are very hard to beat there and also hard to play. It is very difficult to get some good opportunities against them while in offense they are always able to be successful with some counter attacks over their quick offensive players. Despite their good results, they are not a team which likes to control the match, they are more a defending side and count on counter. Therefore if they take the lead it is very hard to play against them additional. All these small teams are having almost the same style and if they must changes to a more controlling one they do very hard and have a lot of problems.

Wow, what a run from Gladbach after starting with 5 defeats in a row under former Coach Favre. But after Favre said he wants to leave because he can not help the team anymore they are starting a real great run under interims Coach Schubert. He has found the right mix, balance and players to start this streak with 5 wins in a row now. The team is back in business and all players which had a lot of problems to begin of the Season are back on track, all their self confidence and motivation from last Season are there now again. The play is excellent and they overcome the opponents like last Season with their great and fast play. Despite some important players are missing due to injury they were able to replace them. With success and maybe a good run all the players if young or old grow with their tasks. Also they minimize their mistakes and getting more and more safety in their play. Some setback arrived already in the game against Schalke where wing Hahn was seriously injured and is out for this year now. Also before the Cup game against Schalke on Wednesday was Raffael out with illness. Some more problems has arrived for Gladbach after the huge injury from Hahn is Jantschke the next one who will miss this game. The other players who are injured to both mentioned above are Herrmann, Stranzl and Schulz who came from Hertha BSC short before the transfer window closed.

I am going against the run from Gladbach who have won 5 in a row in BL now. They lost a lot of energy in the last games and also they had a lot of luck in Cup under the week too. Sooner or later the run is gone from them and they have a real hard opponent to play today. Hertha is a solid working team who has a lot of potential and they are unbeaten in their stadium what gives them a lot of self confidence for this game. From 27 matches in Berlin could Gladbach win only 6 and they never won two in a row there. We are very keen on Hertha not to lose this one !!!

PICK: Hertha BSC Berlin AHC +0,25 @ 1,82 (3 Units / Flat Stake)