Czechs in action: Darida scored from a direct kick, Ostrák got on the pitch

Hertha Berlin failed to win their 18th Bundesliga home game, losing 1:3 despite a goal from Vladimir Darida. Cologne’s youth international Tomas Ostrak came on for the last minutes and Slovak Ondrej Duda scored an important goal to make it 2:0.

Hertha lost the match with a bad passage of play around the 30th minute. First, in the 29th minute they scored from Anthony Modeste’s kick, three minutes later Slovakian player Ondrej Duda increased the score to 2: 0 for Cologne.

The hosts returned to the match in the 57th minute. Vladimír Darida played a standard situation from the left side. The former captain of the Czech national team sent a centre into the opponent’s penalty area, which was unchecked and fell into the net.

However, the team from the capital could do no more, and in the setup the visiting Jan Thielmann adjusted the score to the final 1::3.

It was the first league goal of the season for Darida. So far, he has scored only four times as an assistant. He scored in October against Frankfurt, in December against Dortmund and twice in September against Bochum.

One more Czech was on the pitch. Twenty-one-year-old Tomas Ostrak came on for Cologne’s side for the last five minutes. After six rounds, he made the matchday roster and got into the game for the third time this season.

With their third win in a row, Cologne moved up to sixth place, just three points behind third-placed Hoffenheim. Hertha are not so comfortable, they are fourteenth and have only a three-point lead on the bargaining position.

Source: Bundesliga, Twitter