Hertha travels to Freiburg : The naughty guest

Recently, Valentino has looked Lazaro in the future. The 22-year-old professional footballer from Hertha BSC has played 23 of 24 Games this season and with his performances with the attention of other clubs to be drawn. In the Winter, was the SSC Naples with the Austrians, and the AC Milan even asking. Hertha pushed for a change of the latch. "I'll see you in the summer, where we stand and where I stand," said Lazaro.

Hertha BSC went with an interesting team in the season, they started out surprisingly strong. But the young team is also subject to fluctuation. Just the small dip at the end of last year had prompted Michael Preetz during the winter break to appeal to the Team. In the opinion of the Manager to be in this season more than eighth place after the first half of the season. However, in the second round of the flightiness, a much-publicized away win at Borussia Mönchengladbach took was followed by a home defeat against VfL Wolfsburg.

Running

But with the home win last weekend over Mainz 05, Hertha has pushed something to the Europa League places. Before the game on Saturday at SC Freiburg (kick off 1530 CET, live on Sky) it for Hertha as a table, in eighth, four points up to the Europa League places. "You must win there," says Pal Dardai. Herthas coach knows the difficulty of the task, Freiburg, is the running the strongest Team in the League. The Berliners themselves are one of the physically weakest teams – only Schalke runs with 113,9 kilometers in less than Hertha (114,1).

The last Berlin victory in Breisgau is well-nine years. "We go there to win," says Dardai, "we will be the naughty guest. The most Important thing is: Go, be bold, be brave! You have to invest. We will take the risk to make in the table meters.“

With the game in Freiburg in the League turn into the last season third. Ten game days are still to come. Manager Preetz will remain at the output goal of the season "single digit table position", but athletes have always the ambition to improve. "30 points are still up for grabs, our goal is to get as many as possible."

Christian Sweeps: "This is now a Mature team,"

Freiburg belongs to the category of enemies, against a club that wants to play in Europe, should win. "A qualification for Europe with Hertha this year would of course be great for me, the club and the city," said Lazaro. His contract runs until 2021, but what does that mean nowadays, where the big clubs of the continent throw with gigantic sums of money. He wanted to focus on Hertha. "Now we have to Freiburg in front of the chest and, of course, hope that we can score in this game, three points," says Lazaro. "I've always said that we have the potential to reach the international courts."

regardless of the contract situation of the individual player, an international start-up would be right in the coming season is an important Argument. Not only in Valentino Lazaro. Even players like Jordan Torunarigha (21 years old, contract until 2023), Arne Maier (20/2022), Davie Selke (24/2022) or Niklas Stark (23/2022) have long been into the field of view of the larger clubs. A player of 23 or 24 years, has established itself in the Bundesliga, will not want to wait much longer, if an offer from a prestigious club comes to the international games guaranteed.

"you have said the quality of the course compared to two or three years ago and they are very confident with the ball", the Freiburg coach Christian Streich before the duel with Hertha. "This is now an established, experienced team." Pal Dardai hopes that the Team can stay together for a while. "We gave the guys a lot of experience, they have always played, regardless of whether they have made mistakes. Now you come to an age where you can play error free,“ said Dardai. Maybe in Freiburg.

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