Hertha Berlin take on the visitors Paderborn in the round 1 match of German Bundesliga 2. The match will be played on Saturday, August 3rd at Olympiastadion (Berlin).
"Die Alte Dame" cannot consider itself a grand club. However, it is a fairly popular club that generally showed stable results and was the number one force, at least in its native Berlin. In recent years, Union Berlin has been on the rise, while its more experienced counterpart ended its attempts to become a grand club under the new owner, Windhorst, in complete disappointment, wasting hundreds of millions in vain. It is not surprising that their place in the Bundesliga was lost. Initially, they reclaimed it but followed with another relegation, and in the 2023/2024 season, under the leadership of their legend, Dárdai, the capital team finished strictly in the middle of the table, ninth. The new coach is Fill, who worked with Nuremberg last season. There were a number of not very successful matches in the summer, but they were friendlies, so it is not worth overestimating the failures—the main goal was to establish new connections and implement the current coach's strategies.
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The "White-Blues" started the new century, in the 2000/2001 season, in the fourth, regional division. But in less than a decade and a half, they debuted in the Bundesliga. However, in both the 2014/2015 and 2019/2020 seasons, the newcomer immediately left the elite division, with no real chances of success. After falling back to the second tier of German football, the team began to maintain roughly the same level—not lower than ninth and not higher than sixth place. They finished in the same seventh position last season. Remarkably, since 2021, the coaching position has been held consistently by the Pole, Kwasniok. He continues his work, and the squad has been strengthened by well-known, though not star, players—goalkeeper Schubert and Götze Jr.
Hertha has won all of the last five head-to-head matches. Last season, they scored three goals each time. The match will take place in Berlin against a convenient and not particularly ambitious opponent. We predict that "Die Alte Dame" will win again.
Prediction for the match: Hertha Berlin to win.
