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The next setback for Hertha coach Tayfun Korkut
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Last year, with Schalke 04 and Werder Bremen, two first division clubs with a long service in the first division and a great tradition were hit, this time Hertha BSC could follow.
The team lost their match on the 24th match day of the Bundesliga and has to worry about staying up in the league.
Arminia Bielefeld also has to continue to worry.
Borussia Mönchengladbach caught up from a 2-0 deficit against Wolfsburg.
Hertha BSC is deep in the relegation battle.
Coach Tayfun Korkut's team continued their negative series in Freiburg with a 3-0 loss and remained without a sense of achievement in the second half of the season.
However, the 1-0 lead for the hosts came from an extremely controversial penalty.
Vincenzo Grifo converted the penalty after Freiburg's Roland Sallai fell in a tackle with Linus Gechter.
There was no sign of a real foul, but the referee still decided on a penalty.
The Berliners had traveled to Freiburg with numerous personnel worries.
Andreas Lotka, Hertha's fifth keeper, had to help out in the goal.
In his first Bundesliga game he didn't cut a bad figure, it wasn't his fault.
In any case, the Berliners tried very hard and were much more active in the second section, it just wasn't rewarded.
Instead, Kevin Schade scored just before the end and made everything clear in the 83rd minute.
Lucas Höler set the final point in the 86th minute.
The position of Hertha BSC as table 15.
just one point before relegation is precarious.
Freiburg, on the other hand, climbs to fourth place - what a season for Christian Streich's team.
Mönchengladbach scored at least one point in the first of three so-called fate games in the relegation battle.
Against Wolfsburg, Borussia caught up 0:2 to 2:2 (1:2) in their own stadium.
The next two opponents, VfB Stuttgart and Hertha, are also direct competitors for relegation.
Borussia was behind after just six minutes because Jonas Wind exploited one of Gladbach's many defense weaknesses.
Sebastiaan Bornauw increased from a corner kick in the middle of the first half, it was Wolfsburg's first goal from a corner this season.
Marcus Thuram nurtured Gladbach's hopes with a header just before the break, it was also his debut goal.
The Gladbachers didn't play badly going forward, had some good moments on the offensive, but initially destroyed the result with some hair-raising defensive mistakes.
20 minutes before the end it got exciting again when Wolfsburg's Maxence Lacroix saw red after a handball just before his own penalty area and Borussia increased the pressure again.
After that it was a one-goal game, Breel Emolo, who had just come on as a substitute, redeemed the Gladbachers with a header to equalize.
Leverkusen is heading towards the Champions League.
With the 3:0 (1:0) over Bielefeld, the team consolidated their third place, Arminia remains in the relegation battle.
The lead of the hosts came about curiously.
Paulinho shot the ball himself in the penalty area and jumped to Lucas Alario, who shot in from close range to make it 1-0.
The goal counted, because according to the new handball rule, the whistle is only automatically blown if the goal scorer commits a handball.
The protests in Bielefeld were unsuccessful.
Even without the injured top scorer Patrick Schick, Bayer was superior and had numerous chances to score, and Alario's second goal immediately after the break was disallowed for offside.
His fellow striker Moussa Diaby was more successful after 57 minutes and made it 2-0 after 57 minutes.
Diaby refined his performance with his second goal to make the final.
It works for the Fürth.
For 15 match days it seemed as if the Bundesliga was a few sizes too big for the promoted team.
But after five unbeaten away games recently, Fürth can gradually dream of staying up again.
Morale is right for the cloverleaves - despite the early, fortunate lead by Florian Kainz, whose cross from the half-field did not end up with his teammates, but behind Fürth goalkeeper Linde in the net (52nd).
But after that, the Fürth team took control of the game and consistently played to their newly won strength of being stable at the back and attacking dynamically and agilely at the front.
The Cologne team seemed surprised by this, as well as when Sebastian Griesbeck equalized, who headed in after a corner from five meters (69th).
After that, Fürth was the better team, but they couldn't win.
Anyway:
3:1 over Mainz 05: Goal and victory number one after Max Kruse for Union Berlin.
In the first three games after Max Kruse's move to VfL Wolfsburg, things didn't work out for the Unioners, and the Berliners could not concede a goal or points.
The turning point should come against the table ninth from Mainz.
Union dominated the home game at the Alte Försterei from the start and took the lead in the seventh minute with Genki Haraguchi's volley.
After that, the guests from Mainz took over, consistently worked out their approaches, chances to equalize.
He didn't want to come - on the contrary: shortly after the break, Becker grabs the ball on the left edge of the penalty area, pulls it into the middle and flicks the ball from 25 meters parallel to the goal into the corner (56').
Almost 20 minutes later, the third shot on goal by the Berliners landed in the net.
The counterattack by Awoniyi, who escaped the Mainzers, who were decimated after Kohr was sent off, and pushed the ball in from eight meters down the left, decided the game.
Delano Burgzorg operated result cosmetics for Mainz at the last minute.
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