After best scorer Hanke completed his suspension, the Reds started playing much better and good results followed. In the last round against Dortmund, experienced Bruggink again got on the scoresheet, and we must mention that he has been playing excellent in the second part of the season. Besides the Dutchman, Fahrnhorst, with an excellent free kick and Huszti through counterattack contributed to the final score.
Coach Hecking won’t be able to count on suspended Pinto who is definitely the toughest player for The Reds this season. Coach will move Schulz from the midfield and give the chance to Lala. As for the attacking part of the line-up, tandem Hanke-Stajner will again get the chance supported by Huszti and Bruggink from the midfield. Hannover are still having problems with great number of injured players so he won't be able to count on Brdarić, Tarnat, Yankov, Jurić, Jensen and Hahne.
Return of Pantelic
In the last round, Hertha drew goalless at home against Hamburger this was extending the negative run to seven winless matches. Together with Dortmund, Berlin side are closest to the endangered teams and if they don’t wasn’t to fee jeopardized they must start winning.
Certainly the best news for coach Favre is that best scorer Marko Pantelic recovered who will after a long time start a match. Besides excellent attacker Von Berger and Raffael will be back in the team since they missed the last match due to injuries. Just like in the rest of the matches Hertha will field only one striker with reinforced midfield but unlike those games, the line-up will now be complete. Lucio, Cubukcu, Schmidt, Ede and Gang won’t travel because they are injured.
First duel of these rivals ended in a minimum Hertha win while last season Hannover celebrated 5:0 which was their first victory over Berlin side after 23 whole years. Home side were in better form than their rivals, who will, after a long time, field the strongest line-up so the best thing is to bet on large number of goals