2:2 - HSV draw with Paderborn

... and later in bad luck

After the change of ends, the game continued as wild and turbulent as it had been right before the half-time whistle. And again a bit more alert: HSV. Especially Kittel, who simply snatched the ball from Müller in the penalty area, left keeper Huth out of the way and then calmly slid in the ball to make it 2:1 (49). And HSV kept going - and so did Kittel: solo across half the pitch, pass to Dompe, but Heyer's cross was unlucky to miss the empty goal. In short: Now it was time for a spectacle! SCP were also constantly playing forward and targeting the Hamburg box, so that the game went back and forth and the spectators, just like the players on the pitch, hardly had time to catch their breath. The first time this happened was after an hour, when Schonlau and Pieringer clashed so badly that the game was stopped for a few minutes to treat the lacerations of both players. And then, about ten minutes later, there was another stoppage in play, which the fans did not understand at first, before referee Braun suddenly put the ball on the penalty spot. Muheim had stepped on the foot of his opponent Muslija at the far edge of the penalty area, barely visible, and he safely converted the foul penalty a good quarter of an hour before the end to equalise 2:2. What an unfortunate and, above all, unnecessary goal that gave HSV a short time to recover, even though the Rothosen mobilised all their strength in the final minutes and tried everything. Just like the visitors, who also threw everything forward once more, so that the spectators experienced an open exchange of blows in the seven minutes of injury time. Of course, both teams desperately needed the win in order to challenge for the places in front of them, but in the end the two rivals in the battle for Bundesliga promotion parted with a 2-2 draw in the Hamburg rain.