Claudio Pizarro crowns in the game at Hertha BSC for the oldest goalscorer in the history of the Bundesliga to save his Team a point in the more aggressive and better Berliners.
“Offensively, we have a Plan. This is our Plan, and does not depend on the opponents”, Bremen’s coach Florian Kohfeldt predicted before the game to Sky-microphone. But the Plan, he was not seen. At least not for the spectators.
The hosts seemed to have him by looks. Because of the Werder offensive power of the past weeks was nothing to be seen in Berlin’s Olympic stadium. Only in the case of a counter attack after a quarter of an hour, the Bremen in the Person of Davy let Klaassen glimpses of how dangerous they are. However, the band Niklas Stark the advance with a cynical foul, the referee Sören Storks, however, studiously overlooked.
Robust against the match plan
Not even a foul, let alone a personal penalty for the Hertha defenders. Kohfeldt practiced after the game hidden criticism of the Impartial: “Maybe you can play an early Majority, then the game is maybe too different,” he analyzed several rough actions of Hertha-Profi.
Undoubtedly, the Berlin not had luck that the referee punished her sometimes rustic gait, and their match schedule this first came up. “We need to bring more aggressiveness to the game”, said Bremen’s striker Claudio Pizarro after the encounter. “In the first half, it looked as if we had played the guys against the pros”.
Twice Aluminum
Bremen, with 36 goals from the attack of the strongest teams in the League, almost never came into the penalty area the well-stocked Herthaner, in which the front especially Davie Selke whirled. After 20 minutes he met the first free-standing 14 meters, only the right-hand post, a little later, he made it better then than he chippte a template of Salomon Kalou experienced goalkeeper Jiri Pavlenka passing into the net (25.).
At the latest in the 38. Minute the 2:0 was even in the air, as Ondrej Duda free-kick from 25 metres to the underside of the crossbar nailed. “If you make the 2:0, it can be really bitter. But it is not,” said Kohfeldt after the final whistle. And To Pal Dardai the saw in the same way: “In the first half, you don’t have to make the goals, then these things happen.”
Zig-zag through the wall
With “such things,” said Dardai more than a lucky equaliser. The entire second half of the Bremen to ideas and harmlessness had been outbid, but then you threw but still, everything to the front. In the sixth Minute of stoppage time, there was a free-kick from 18 yards in a Central Position. Max Kruse seemed to be on the Ball lay, but then the half hour before substitute Oldie to trotted Pizarro and shot sly through the wall.
Twice deflected, landed the Ball in fact, at the 1:1-final in the Hertha goal (90+6.), and Pizarro is allowed to call himself “the oldest Bundesliga scorer of all time”. With 40 years and 136 days, he replaced Mirko Votava, also Werder Bremen, as the previous record holder. “I am very satisfied. I think the point will help us,” said the Peruvian, “and I am satisfied that I am now the oldest goalscorer in the Bundesliga”. Hertha and Bremen remain in the table with immediate neighbours and only one or two points behind a European Cup place.
In the end it was not so, a crafty goal-grandfather, who was bursting with Pride, almost, and two trainers, which was not so in the mood to celebrate: Dardai (“The hustle and bustle, random. The free-kick, I haven’t looked.”) and Kohfeldt not (“Today was not a day of euphoria. Today, I have annoyed me more that it didn’t go so”.)
Oh Yes – and how was the Offensive Plan of the Bremen, which does not depend on the opponent? Right: The is 40-years-old, and Claudio Pizarro.