0-4 HSV lose friendly at 1.FC Köln

A lot of movement...

HSV coach Tim Walter had to do without a sextet of players in the cathedral city, including Laszlo Benes (complaints during the warm-up), Anssi Suhonen (tendon injury), Tim Leibod (private matters), Miro Muheim (ankle contusion), Elijah Krahn and Tom Mickel (both in rehabilitation training), but at the same time he was able to enter 22 players in the match report, all of whom were waiting for their turn in the 4 x 30 minute match format. True to their DNA, both teams initially chose the footballing approach in the build-up to the game and provided plenty of ball movement in the opening phase, in which the hosts had the first shots through Steffen Tigges (4th) and Denis Huseinbasic (8th), but they missed the target by just as much as a deflected long-range shot by midfield motor Ludovit Reis (14th) and a follow-up shot by winger Bakery Jatta (20th).  

Also in the second 30 minutes, both teams were very active. However, the game continued to take place between the penalty areas, where the flow of the game took a break due to increased duels and associated foul play. The Bundesliga team was the first to find the starting button again in this period, but failed in the person of Linton Maina (39th) from close range to HSV keeper Daniel Heuer Fernandes, who made a strong save with his foot. For Cologne, however, the top chance heralded a storm-and-force phase in which HSV found midfielder Florian Kainz particularly difficult to get hold of. Around the 45th minute, the Austrian twice set up captain Jonas Hector, who failed from a promising position, first with a header and then at the post. Huseinbasic then did better, standing in the right place twice in the penalty area and scoring within a few turns of the clock to make it 1:0 and 2:0 (48th and 50th). Hamburg, who had been too passive for ten to 15 minutes, had the chance to reduce the score to 1:2 shortly before the break. After a remarkable Kittel solo, Jatta missed from a few centimetres (57th).