4:3 - HSV wins crazy stadtderby

The heated Volkspark

Tim Walter changed his team in three positions compared to the game at the Betzenberg. Benes, Suhonen and Katterbach stayed out for the time being, but Meffert, Heyer and Dompe returned to the Hamburg starting eleven, which already fired the first warning shot through Glatzel in the third minute. This was accompanied by a deafening noise, as the Volksparkstadion resembled a real witch's cauldron from kick-off, in which one could not understand one's own words.

Every successful move was cheered frenetically, as was every tackle. But the visitors were also in the game from the start, and in the twelfth minute Afolayan scored the first dangerous goal, but all in all HSV was the team that dominated the game in this early phase, playing forward again and again through the flanks, and after a quarter of an hour Kittel had the 1:0 on his foot. A loud murmur from more than 50,000 throats went through the "Tollhaus Volksparkstadion" at that moment, which collectively held its breath five minutes later when Daschner failed to hit the ball properly from five metres out, allowing Heuer Fernandes to react and keep the score at 0-0. In contrast to the 36th minute, when the HSV defence allowed itself to be completely outplayed once, so that Saliakas was able to penetrate the penalty area on the right side with a lot of running and put the ball into the short corner from a few metres away for 0:1. And this at a time when the game had actually put its wild opening phase behind it and calmed down somewhat, as both defensive lines were now acting more calmly. That was the end of it, of course, and the game became more intense again - and really, really loud. In the 44th minute, David, who had moved up, took a derby heart and welded the ball from 20 metres into the right corner of the goal, which resulted in an unparalleled jubilant canon. A real dream goal to make it 1-1, which was also the score at half-time.