5:0 - Glatzel madness in Darmstadt!

Hamburg's dream start...

HSV coach Tim Walter had to do without his best provider and creative head of his offensive game in the match at the league leader: Sonny Kittel was not available due to his yellow suspension and Walter had stressed in the days before the game: "We will replace Sonny collectively, because that is our great strength." And the coach was right, because already in the first quarter of an hour, Alidou, Muheim and Heyer acted as Kittel's substitutes and set up three goals for Glatzel.

And so, after a fantastic start from HSV's point of view, after only 13 minutes they had a 3:0 lead over the league leaders, who didn't know what was happening to them. The Hamburg team was so handy, won every important duel, constantly forced themselves into overtime situations and were also ice-cold in front of goal. The Reds were totally dominant and superior in all phases and enabled their goal scorer to score a hat-trick, which also expressed HSV's dominance on the scoreboard. Although the Lilien were able to stabilise a little after about half an hour, they were far from being an equal opponent or coming close to scoring. The Walter team was far too strong in the fight and collectively strong and even scored the fourth goal almost at the break through Kinsombi, but the VAR ruled a tight offside situation after several minutes of review to the disadvantage of HSV and thus conceded the 4:0.