Hamburger SV, under Steffen Baumgart, is once again on the verge of losing its longed-for promotion back to the Bundesliga. On Friday evening, HSV suffered its fifth defeat from the last seven games at Fortuna Düsseldorf with a score of 0:2 (0:1).
In front of 52,000 spectators in the sold-out Düsseldorf Arena, the third-place team in the second division also weakened themselves. Substitute Moritz Heyer, who came on after just under a quarter of an hour for the injured Noah Katterbach, was on the pitch for less than 40 minutes and was already seen in the 51st minute. Minute yellow-red.
As a result, Heyer missed both goals conceded on the field, in which the offensively outstanding Fortuna attacker Christos Tzolis was involved: The loanee from the English second division team Norwich City prepared Felix Klaus’s first goal in Düsseldorf (11th) and made it 2-0 against them then the guests decimated themselves (63′). This was the Greek’s 14th goal of the season. In the final phase, Düsseldorf missed further great opportunities.
For the new HSV coach Baumgart, it was the second defeat in his third game despite the return of Lazlo Benes, who had previously been suspended. As a result, Fortuna moved within one point of Hamburg with only their second win this year. HSV could be pushed out of the relegation place as early as Saturday. In addition, the gap to a direct promotion place threatens to grow to five points.
Meanwhile, FC Hansa Rostock won the league’s basement duel. The previous penultimate team deservedly won 1-0 (0-0) in Braunschweig and thus pushed Eintracht out of the relegation place. Kevin Schumacher scored in the 72nd minute for Rostock, who were much better, especially in the first half. In doing so, he probably saved his coach Mersad Selimbegovic’s job for the time being.
The game in front of 22,233 spectators began with fireworks in the Hansa block and counteracted all the developments of the past few weeks. Eintracht, who previously won six of twelve games under their new coach Daniel Scherning, was completely out of sorts this time. She played incorrectly, nervously and was lucky that the Icelandic Thorir Johann Helgason only saw a yellow card for his foul on Nico Neidhart in the 15th minute.
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For Rostock, on the other hand, after just one win in the second half of the season, the job of Selimbegovic and sports director Kristian Walter was already at stake. Nevertheless, Hansa clearly dominated the first half. The Swede Svante Ingelsson missed the best of several good opportunities when he shot against the crossbar (29th).
Eintracht improved in the second half, but only showed commitment and no danger. Hampus Finndell missed the only good chance in the 89th minute.
