Under way once more.

Here they come, down the escalator once again. All set?

Hertha have now failed to score in the first half in seven of their last eight Bundesliga home matches.

Rubbish.

Nooooo. Noooooo.

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The Hertha fans will be the happier of the two sides so far - they were on top but could not find a way through.

One man claps as the half-time whistle goes.

Very close indeed!

Lovely free-kick from Union midfielder Robert Andrich, gets it up and over the wall but can only land it on the roof of the net.

Hertha look a threat when they can get the ball forwards quickly, this time it's Matheus Cunha running in behind. He hits his shot very early and Rafal Gikiewicz has to make another sharp low save.

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Hertha Berlin 0-0 Union Berlin

Vladimir Darida and Marcus Ingvartsen go in for a challenge and Ingvartsen comes off worse, a proper clout to the jaw. The referee and VAR decide that it was but an accident and we can carry on.

Fifteen minutes left in the first half.

You'll have to ask someone a lot smarter and a lot more tuned in than me what exactly this is all about and whether it's worth it or not but here's a picture from a bar outside the ground.

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Good effort! Hertha streak away down the right, Vedad Ibisevic puts in a low cross and Matheus Cunha goes for an outlandish backheel which is saved at the near post. Would have been some goal.

Marko Grujic heads the corner wide.

Hertha haven't won at home since December, although they do have a valid excuse for at least two of those months. They've been through four managers in seven months, including Jurgen Klinsmann who lasted only about 80 days.

Watford-esque.

Have a dig! Liverpool loanee Marko Grujic shoots from close to 40 yards and nails his shot, but it's always rising and clears the discus pit behind the goal as well. I think that's what it is. Could be the high jump?

You'd get a better view from behind that goal than at that other athletics hybrid, the Withdean, I'd wager.

The dog just knocked my ipad off the table - we're all adapting to the new normal here.

You didn't miss anything, I don't think. Still goalless.

Oooooffff - Christopher Trimmel's second set piece is a beauty, what a corner, right into the goalmouth but Hertha clear.

And there's an instant chance on the counter for the hosts, Dodi Lukebakio streaking away like Darius Vassell for Harry's Heroes the other night, but his shot is straight at Rafal Gikiewicz.

Union full-back Chris Trimmel is an assist king from set-pieces, a cross between David Beckham and Trent Alexander-Arnold I've heard. Here's his first chance to deliver, and it's a good ball in too, half cleared and Marius Bulter can only float a header on to the roof of the net.

There's 15 minutes gone.

A head-melting discussion on BT about a guy Hertha signed who was loaned back to Lyon until the end of the season. The French season has finished so is he available?

They've decided no.

Now we're talking, that's a derby day challenge alright. No social distancing there as Michael Parensen chops down Vlad Darida as Hertha threatened a counter.

Hertha can become the first team to lose both Bundesliga matches in a season against Union. A record they definitely won't want.

This fixture pulled in 75,000 in the second tier 10 years or so ago.

First real attack from the hosts frees Dodi Lukebakio down the right channel, he tries to flick it inside but Union clear their lines. Decent tempo to the opening jousts.