"That is a large relief. What the boys did turned into splendid," stated Hertha sports director Fredi Bobic.
An early headed aim via Hertha captain Dedryck Boyata and a speculative second-half of loose-kick from Marvin Plattenhardt noticed Hertha turn their fortunes around in Monday's go back leg.
Hertha had misplaced the first leg 1-zero in Berlin remaining Thursday, however the site visitors flew out of the traps in Hamburg whilst Boyata smashed in a header after just 4 mins.
Falling behind subdued the hosts, who lacked the composure of the primary leg.
Only a awesome keep by Hamburg goalkeeper Daniel Fernandes blocked a fierce shot through Hertha striker Ishak Belfodil with 1/2-time approaching.
Hamburg rallied after the destroy with proper-back Moritz Heyer testing Hertha goalkeeper Oliver Christensen with a protracted-variety shot.
At the opposite cease, Fernandes pulled off a superb store at the close to publish to dam a shot by way of Plattenhardt, however the dead-ball expert who was no longer to be denied.
The Germany defender launched a stunning free-kick from the left flank to the some distance put up which curled over Fernandes and into the net on sixty three minutes.
The goal positioned Hertha ahead on combination for the primary time in the play-off tie because the site visitors held on regardless of growing desperation from the Hamburg group.
Hertha completed with ten guys whilst Lucas Tousart was shown a 2d yellow card simply earlier than the very last whistle as tempers flared in stoppage time.
