{"id":68587,"date":"2026-04-25T21:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/68587\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T21:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:59:15","slug":"2-bundesliga-holstein-kiel-end-herthas-promotion-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/68587\/","title":{"rendered":"2. Bundesliga: Holstein Kiel end Hertha\u2019s promotion hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The capital city club Hertha BSC are automatically out of the promotion race following a disappointing home defeat to Holstein Kiel. Stefan Leitl\u2019s side were the better side in all metrics, but the visitors are the ones who found the all-important goal after the hour mark.<\/p>\n<p>Including <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/soccer\/players\/768744\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Josip Brekalo;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Josip Brekalo&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josip Brekalo<\/a>\u2019s disallowed goal as early as the second minute and a penalty-kick decision reversed by VAR just before the break, the hosts had several opportunities to take the lead before half-time.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Tim Walter\u2019s men had no attempts of any kind in the first-half, but they eventually took all three points after a goal from a throw-in. Norwegian midfielder Jonas Therkelsen beat <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/soccer\/players\/3239732\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tjark Ernst;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Tjark Ernst&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tjark Ernst<\/a> with a well-placed shot after Hertha\u2019s inability to clear the danger.<\/p>\n<p>Kiel have now climbed to tenth place after picking up ten points in their last four games. It doesn\u2019t seem like it at the start, but Walter\u2019s arrival changed their fortunes as they\u2019re now set to stay in 2. Bundesliga.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Hertha will be in the division next term for the fourth successive season, after the result left them nine points behind the top three with only three games left to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The capital city club Hertha BSC are automatically out of the promotion race following a disappointing home defeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,2355,190,4018,6182,7928,7276],"class_list":{"0":"post-68587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-bundesliga","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-hertha","12":"tag-holstein-kiel","13":"tag-josip-brekalo","14":"tag-tjark-ernst"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116467594915395470","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}