0:1 - HSV loses at Fürth

... and justified defeat

Unfortunately, this situation did not change after the second half. In Fürth's constant rain, Hamburg were unable to impose their play, as the cloverleaf made the spaces in their own half extremely tight, did not allow anything and also caused many interruptions with many small foul plays, which destroyed any flow of the game. And on top of that, the home side showed several times how dangerous they can be on the counter-attack after winning the ball - twice the scorer Sieb had the chance to make it 2-0, but failed each time to beat the outstanding Heuer Fernandes. And so the best away team in the league went into the final phase with the narrow deficit, in which coach Walter brought on two more attackers in Bilbija and Sanne. Everything on one card - that was the motto in order to take at least one point from Bavaria, but on the deep turf of the Ronhof the Reds did not really want to succeed, especially as the net playing time kept decreasing due to the many interruptions caused by the small fouls of the hosts. There was a major interruption shortly before the end of the game, when the substituted Fürth player Tillman saw the red card after a blatant boarding against Amaechi. But even with ten men, HSV could not find the lucky punch, as they lacked the ideas, the energy and the penetrating power that would have been needed to take something countable from Fürth, who had recently regained their strength and were very unpleasant to play against.