Dhe Hamburger SV is back on track after two wins and a negative series. Now the team of head coach Daniel Thioune wants to add to the away game at Karlsruher SC on Monday (8.30 p.m. / Sky and in the live ticker on WELT.de) and, if possible, get the third three in a row in order to get ahead of the table early next year.
Still, Thioune warned against being too complacency: “It’s always a dangerous phase when you’ve won twice in a row. One can digress mentally. We’ll keep the tension high, ”he said, giving the route for the last competitive game in 2020.
The new humility at HSV
Even if the word is hardly mentioned in the Volkspark at the moment, the mission after three years of abstinence is clear: Promotion to the first division. But there is still a long way to go, everyone at HSV knows that. This is not only due to an opaque second league in terms of performance, in which everyone can currently beat anyone, but also the Rothosen’s own qualitative ability fluctuates. “Development” is therefore a word that Hamburgers are currently trying to achieve, a new humility that not only suggests weaknesses but also potential.
One constant is top attacker Simon Terodde, who scored the first two goals in the 4-0 home win last Saturday against SV Sandhausen, which was too high. Once again Terodde, who has already scored 13 goals after twelve match days and thus more than half of all HSV players (25). “Simon is a bit older and could rest on all his goals, but he gives full throttle in every training session,” enthused Thioune of his difference player, who can “deal with pressure situations and take pressure off the team”.
“A striker also hits when he is well served,” said HSV sports director Michael Mutzel, without wanting to diminish Terodde’s value for HSV. The top talents Amadou Onana (19 years old) and Josha Vagnoman (20) then entered the list of goalscorers against SV Sandhausen. “You have to be patient, let the boys grow, sometimes admit a bad game,” he emphasized, “but I was pleased that they were successful.”
A smooth, clear victory on the one hand, a lot of patchwork, little dominance on the other. But if you look back on the weeks before, there have been HSV games where even having a lot of possession of the ball was of no use and not even getting points. “It’s not about dominance and phases of possession, it’s about results,” said Mutzel. “We know that we can still develop in some areas.” It is “a difficult league” in which “you cannot always expect to have 80 percent possession and hit your opponent against the wall”.
What is noticeable after twelve match days is that the Hamburgers operate very variably. Thioune’s line-up and tactics are often like a big puzzle that can only be solved during the course of the game and that sometimes has to be corrected.
What helps here is a team with top quality in all parts of the team for second division conditions. Against Sandhausen he ran because of his well-known brutal style of playing with many high long balls, with a three-man trunk on the back, Stephan Ambrosius, Moritz Heyer and Toni Leistner defended, before that the physical Klaus Gjasula, and the two fast, two-way strong Vagnoman and captain Tim Leibold the outer tracks.
Thioune also has many good personal opportunities at the front. Jeremy Dudziak, who has already made six assists this season, is emerging as the midfield leader there. “Once we get into our processes, we are difficult to defend,” said Mutzel and added greeting after the recent successes from second place in the table: “We want to take the flow with us, are back on track and also want to be in Karlsruhe, currently eighth in the table , get three points. ”
Thioune said about the game at the Badensern: “Karlsruhe is an opponent who is physically very robust, but also takes the footballing approach and usually defends very well. In terms of earnings, they did not start the season well, but have now consolidated. “
Ambrosius should receive the contract until 2024
Meanwhile, the “Bild” newspaper reports that the highly talented central defender Ambrosius (22) should receive a new contract until 2024. Mutzels, junior boss Horst Hrubesch and chief scout Claus Costa are also expected to sign by 2023. U21 international Ambrosius had been targeted by clubs like Celtic Glasgow, England second division FC Watford and several Italian first division clubs, now he is to be tied to HSV for the long term. Above all, the robust central defender with a strong header stands for HSV’s course of creating values in order to either play with top talent in the Bundesliga or earn a lot of money with top transfers.
After the Karlsruhe game, HSV only has to complete a corona test on December 22nd and then go on a short vacation. The next corona test in the Volksparkstadion is due on December 27, the HSV informed on Friday. Training preparation starts one day later. On January 3rd, Hamburg’s Jahn Regensburg await.
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