Amine Harit congratulated by her partners in December 2020. -
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After 30 consecutive matches without a Bundesliga win, Schalke broke the curse on Saturday by beating Hoffenheim 4-0 on Matchday 15, thanks to a hat-trick from American Matthew Hoppe and a goal from Moroccan Amine Harit.
A first after 30 games without wins
In extremis, the Ruhr club will therefore not join Tasmania Berlin, which holds the sad historic record for the German championship, with a series of 31 games without winning in 1965-66.
The team left the last place in Mainz, but remained 17th and relegated, three points behind potential play-off Bielefeld, which hosts Hertha Berlin on Sunday.
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The “Royal Blue” had not won in the league since January 17, 2-0 against Mönchengladbach.
Saturday's victory is the work of new trainer Christian Gross, a 66-year-old Swiss technician who arrived during the Christmas break to succeed Manuel Baum, sacked.
Schalke 04, which bears the name of the suburb of Gelsenkirchen where he was born in 1904, is a monument of German football, several times German champion in the first half of the 20th century.
Since 2000, he has been runner-up five times (last time in 2017-18) and eight times on the Bundesliga podium.
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