HSV takes over the top of the table. At least for now. In the top game of the 2nd division, Hamburg showed the guests from Düsseldorf the limits. Fortuna was lucky three times alone that the ball only landed on the goal post. Jatta set the final chord at the gala performance.
Dhe Hamburger SV has made it to the top of the table in the 2nd division. In the top game of the ninth match day, the Hanseatic League deservedly won 2-0 (1-0) against Fortuna Düsseldorf on Saturday evening and took over the top of the table for at least one night. In front of 49,616 spectators in the Volksparkstadion, Robert Glatzel (21st) and Bakéry Jatta (90th) scored for the North Germans, who celebrated their fourth win in a row.
After his strong performance, Jatta avoided the question of whether the HSV promotion would work this time. “Anything is possible, but we look from game to game,” said the attacker from Gambia at Sport1, who was happy about how the goals fell: “We always practice that very often.” The former HSV and current Fortuna Coach Daniel Thioune afterwards admitted that “the win for HSV is absolutely fine. We didn’t have the energy, the power and we were too harmless in attack.”
After the third defeat of the season, Fortuna initially lost contact with the promotion zone – and were lucky with the outcome of the game. HSV’s attempts to attack landed on the Düsseldorf post or the crossbar three times alone.
HSV stormed from the start. Access Laszlo Bénes, who was preferred to Sonny Kittel this time, hit the crossbar twice in the beginning (2nd/7th). The guests, who had to replace defender Matthias Zimmermann early on with Nicolas Gavory (8th) after a collision with Robert Glatzel, could hardly free themselves from the pressure from the hosts. They deservedly took the lead when Glatzel scored his sixth goal of the season after Jatta’s strong preparatory work.
Fortuna goalkeeper Kastenmeier prevented worse
As a result, the guests were able to stage themselves better because the hosts withdrew a little further. The strong Jatta always caused danger on the right side. And he (44′) and Mario Vuskovic (45′ + 1′) almost headed in before the break to make it 2-0, but keeper Florian Kastenmeier quickly saved both times.
After the change, the former HSV and current Fortuna coach Daniel Thioune brought fresh offensive forces into the game in Emmanuel Iyoha and Shinta Appelkamp. On the other side, Moritz Heyer failed at Kastenmeier (53rd). Dawid Kownacki’s offside goal (58th) was a warning shot from the clearly improved guests. Substitute Kittel hit the inside post for HSV (88′) before Jatta made everything clear.
