3:2 victory in top match against Paderborn

Shock start for HSV...

HSV coach Tim Walter had to do without his suspended captain Schonlau and several other players such as Jatta, Heyer, Leibold & Co. were missing. Instead, top scorer Glatzel had returned to 100% during the training week and joined Benes in the starting eleven. He faced the full force of Paderborn right from the kick-off, who started like fire and forced Heuer Fernandes into a first brilliant save in the second minute, when he was able to direct a Muslija shot just wide of the crossbar.

But the joy of this save was short-lived, because just one minute later Leipertz completed a Pieringer solo and drove the ball from close range under the crossbar for an early 1:0. And the home side's rocket start continued, so that Heuer Fernandes had to summon up all his skills twice more to prevent a greater deficit. But HSV didn't let the pressure get to them, fought their way back into the game bit by bit - and then struck ice-cold: Glatzel headed a Dompé cross into the net in the 23rd minute to make it 1-1, which noticeably widened Hamburg's chest again. Now it was the expected top match on equal terms, in which the Walter men even took more and more control and dominated the action at times. Benes and Glatzel, who failed to score against SCP keeper Huth, had the best opportunities to convert this into goals, which Dompé did in injury time of the first half. The Frenchman, seconds after Paderborn's Conteh had hit the crossbar after a brilliant counter-attack, fired the ball into the far corner in the best Robben manner and thus turned the game, which had started with completely different signs for HSV, around.