The Hoffenheim stood this friday on the edge of European outposts (7th, with the same points as Leipzig) after beating Hertha Berlin 2-0 this Friday, in a match in which Sebastian Hoeness’s men once again showed their notable improvement when they played home.
In little or nothing this Friday Hoffenheim resembled the team that clearly fell in their outings to the fields of Bayern Munich (4-0) and Stuttgart (3-1), a dynamic that had already been appreciated in their last two matches at home, in which the “kraichgauer” easily prevailed against Wolfsburg (3-1) and Cologne (5-0).
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A win that seemed like it could be repeated against the superiority of Hoffenheim in a first half in which the locals transferred their superiority to the scoreboard with goals from the Croatian Andrej Kramaric at 19 minutes and Sebastian Rudy, who signed the 2-0.
Result that could be broader for the locals, who enjoyed two good chances through the Danish attacker Robert Skov, who made the visiting goalkeeper shine in the 31st minute with a header and in the 41st he crashed a ball into a post.
His offensive vocation was reduced, despite enjoying the occasional opportunity, in the second half, which he did not miss to stretch Hertha, who saw how the referee annulled a goal to the French Myziane Maolida offside.
The comeback attempt was definitely frustrated two minutes later, at 75, with the expulsion of Belgian defender Dedryck Boyata.
With this victory, Hoffenheim was placed in seventh position with the same points as Leipzig, which closes the European positions, with one game less, while Hertha from Berlin will remain in the middle of the table – it is eleventh – after seeing truncated a streak of two consecutive victories.