Derry Scherhant, the debutant, didn’t take long to find his way into the game. Just two minutes had passed against VfL Bochum when the offensive player from Hertha BSC got caught in a duel with Anthony Losilla, the VfL captain.
The ball seemed lost, but Scherhant, 20 years old and on the field for the first time in the Bundesliga, followed up on the sidelines and got a throw-in for his team. “I think he did a very good job,” said Sandro Schwarz, Hertha’s coach. “Even before the 1-0, which didn’t count, he worked very well and was immediately active in counter-pressing.”
In a parallel world, Derry Scherhant would probably have been celebrated extensively after the game in Bochum. No way: regained the ball before Lucas Tousart made it 1-0, making a valuable contribution to the away win in Bochum, which noticeably eased Hertha’s situation in the relegation battle right at the beginning of the year.
Hertha BSC is the master of parallel worlds
Hertha has often been a master of parallel worlds in the past, so the impact in reality was all the harder afterwards.
Everyone can be sure that we know where we are in the table.
Sandro Blackcoach of Hertha BSC
On Saturday he was again extremely painful. The opening goal was conceded by the video assistant. Instead of 1:0 for Hertha was 0-2 at the break versus Hertha, shortly after the break then even 0: 3 and in the end 1: 3. The situation in the relegation battle is not relaxed, but more serious than it has been for a long time right at the beginning of the year.
Due to the defeat, Hertha fell back to 17th place in the table. relegation battle or not? “What we call it is up to you,” said Schwarz in the press conference after the game. “But everyone can be sure that we know where we are in the table and that we are dealing with it very seriously, consistently and with focus.”
Against Bochum, the former penultimate in the table, his team only managed that in a few phases at the beginning. Hertha was “certainly more dominant”, as Bochum coach Thomas Letsch admitted, before the game “went more and more in our direction, because of our passion and our mentality”.
In the fourth home game under Letsch, VfL celebrated their fourth win. Hertha, on the other hand, suffered their first defeat in Bochum since August 2009 and after the last three away wins there.
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VfL Bochum played home games under coach Thomas Letsch. He won all.
Black had made a long list of deficiencies throughout the game. On it was noted: too little intensity, too little aggressiveness, too few sprints, especially against the ball. “It starts at the start in the run-up behavior that we weren’t as active as we usually are,” said Hertha’s coach. “That’s how it crept in.” In his estimation, however, it was a matter of substantive omissions. “It has little to do with attitude.”
It is remarkable with what accuracy Hertha always catches the wrong moment for touches of naivety and carelessness this season. And it is significant that it was the youngest and most inexperienced player in the Berlin team who could be blamed the least.
“Derry was good,” said Hertha goalkeeper Oliver Christensen about the debutant Scherhant. “He made a good impression.” The 20-year-old had played a full 40 minutes in the Bundesliga over two brief appearances by Saturday; in Bochum 62 were added. There were reasons why Schwarz replaced Scherhant after just over an hour. But they had nothing to do with his performance.
Scherhant is now a real option
Immediately after the 0:3 Black brought three new offensive forces, switched from 4-2-3-1 to 4-4-2. But this measure also fizzled out.
Derry Scherhant was in the starting XI because the injured Chidera Ejuke and Dodi Lukebakio were absent. Hertha’s top scorer was suspended for his fifth yellow card. On Tuesday, in the home game against his former club VfL Wolfsburg, Lukebakio will return to the team and Scherhant will have to return to the bench.
Nevertheless, the youngster from our own offspring has significantly improved his position within the squad in preparation and during his performance in Bochum. Scherhant is now a real option for Black.
As a left winger, he brought everything that Hertha’s coach had missed in his team against VfL: Scherhant was active, grippy, courageous, resistant. “Derry had very good moments. He held up very well,” said Schwarz. “It was very neat for his first game from the start.”
And that’s especially true given its history. Except for a few months in Hertha’s A-Jugend, Scherhant has never attended a youth academy. “He took an unusual path,” says Schwarz. “That makes him special.”
Things never came easily to Derry Scherhant, he had to fight for everything. That might make you hungry even more. Oliver Christensen, Hertha’s goalkeeper, said after the game in Bochum: “I think he will come.”
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