Of course, they too negotiated a prize in advance. Like all professionals do. However, knowing full well that the path is hard to master until then …
Football “dwarf” Prussia promises: Hard number for the “old lady” Hertha!
Fourth division Münster (squad value 3 million) against the “Big City Club” from Berlin (122 million). Worlds collide in the second round of the DFB Cup today (6:30 pm).
Prussian captain Julian Schauerte (33): “We are clear outsiders. But we will do everything to make it a tough number for Hertha too. “
Like in 2009, when the Bundesliga team was only able to assert itself with a painful 3-1 on Hammer Straße with two very late goals in extra time (118th and 120th minute). At that time, by the way, with the current coach Pal Dardai (45) and manager Arne Friedrich (42) in the starting line-up.
Münster’s sports boss Peter Niemeyer (37) also has a Hertha past, playing for Berlin from 2010 to 2015. Was even a captain. He wants, can and must, however, fade out when they see each other again. After all, there is half a million euros for getting ahead. At least for the little Prussians a huge sum …
Looking forward to the test of strength with the Berlin “Big City Club”: Prussia’s head coach Sascha HildmannPhoto: private
Meanwhile, their head coach Sascha Hildmann (49) prepared an “underdog” for the round of 16. It was 2009 when he sensationally knocked out Mainz (2-0) with third division Kaiserslautern. Then 1. FC Nürnberg was drawn – and also with 6: 5 brought to his knees after a penalty shoot-out, but unfortunately without Hildmann, who had been fired exactly one week earlier, replaced by Boris Schommers (42) and thus deprived of his work’s wages.
So now his second attempt at the round of 16 with the Eagle Bearers. The personnel situation at Prussia relaxed in good time. Defense chief Simon Scherder (28 / fiber tear) is back in the squad after a two-week injury break, but will initially only sit on the bench. The winger Manuel Farrona Pulido (28) and Luke Hemmerich (24), on the other hand, are already options for the initial formation again, also after fiber tears and their short missions last at the Bonn 2: 1.
Hildmann full of anticipation: “The nice thing about this cup competition is that the favorite doesn’t always have the edge in the end. But if we really want to have a chance, everything really has to fit together on this day – down to the smallest detail. For this we urgently need the unconditional support of our great fans. “
Prussia’s defense veteran Simon Scherder is back in the squad after healed fiber tear against HerthaPhoto: firo Sportphoto / Jürgen Fromme
Around 12,000 spectators will be there live and whip their Prussians loudly forward. The last 400 tickets – sent back from Berlin because the Hertha Ultras refuse to visit the stadium because of the 2 G rule – were sold out online in just seven minutes (!) On Saturday morning.
All of Münster in football fever – the “old lady” from the federal capital can prepare for a hot dance …