“We were not compelling enough”

After his debut as head coach of Hertha BSC, Cristian Fiél had to explain the 1:2 (0:1) defeat at home to SC Paderborn, even though our boys were ahead in most statistics. “It’s often the case on the first match day that you don’t know what you’re going to get. After the last week of training, I had the feeling that the boys were on fire and really wanted to get going. In the first half, however, we didn’t get much of what we had planned onto the pitch. I can’t blame the boys for not trying afterwards. But we weren’t forceful enough,” revealed our trainer at the press conference.

Lukas Kwasniok emphasized: “I think we saw a classic game for a first match day. Both teams wanted to win, but were also quite sloppy with the ball – so chances to score were rather scarce. We managed to score 1-0 more or less unexpectedly after a corner, which of course played into our hands. Just like the 2-0 shortly after the start of the second half.” The entire exchange with the media representatives HerthaTV captured.