Match Report

HSV win 1:0 but finish in the play-offs

Hamburger SV won their away match in SV Sandhausen 1:0 but still have to play VfB Stuttgart in the relegation play offs due to the late Heidenheim victory

HSV won their matchday 34 away game 1-0 (1:0) at SV Sandhausen on Sunday (28 May). Dome's early goal was also to be the goal of the day in the end, yet this 1:0 was ultimately not enough for direct promotion. 1. FC Heidenheim, who had been trailing 1-2 until injury time in the parallel match at SSV Jahn Regensburg, turned the game around to win 3-2 and push HSV back into the relegation places. Around 10,000 HSV fans who had accompanied their team to Sandhausen witnessed this drama on the pitch after the end of their own game - and the rest was disbelief.

Traumtor und Tor des Tages: Jean-Luc Dompe erzielt volley den Treffer, der das Tor zur Bundesliga für den HSV lange Zeit weit aufstieß.

Hamburg's dream start ...

HSV coach Tim Walter had to do without Jatta and Reis due to suspension and had to change his starting eleven accordingly. For the two suspended key players, the coach nominated Benes in the centre of midfield and Königsdörffer on the right wing. And the new right winger started like fire, marching up and down his wing in the third minute after a strong David action and crossing smoothly into the middle. There Dompe had sneaked a metre away from his opposite number Diekmeier and hammered the ball full-on and goal-of-the-month style into the net for a very early HSV lead. What a start! And at the same time the signal to 1. FC Heidenheim that they were highly motivated to fulfil their own task. Subsequently, Glatzel and Schonlau could have headed their team a good deal closer to fulfilling this goal, but both set their sights a few centimetres too high and thus missed extending the lead. Overall, however, the game became more balanced after the very HSV-heavy opening phase.

Despite the fact that relegation was a certainty, the Sandhäuser did not hold back at all, but defended very intensively and also launched one or two attacks, whereby Bachmann could well have equalised with a header after about half an hour. And just as everyone was preparing for the break, things suddenly got a bit dicey on both sides when Diekmeier scored for SVS and then Kittel scored for HSV. And so, shortly before the break, the pulse went up again before referee Badstübner gave the 22 men in the fiery Hardtwald Stadium a breather and blew the whistle for half-time.

Tim Walter und sein Team gewinnen 1:0, doch am Ende reicht es nicht für den direkten Aufstieg.

... and pure drama at the end

The second half started like the first: HSV was wide awake and started really well - and had the 2:0 directly on the foot, but Heyer's shot in the 48th minute only hit the left inner post and came out again. This scene and the good performance of the Rothosen spurred the HSV fans on once again - before the great jubilation broke out a few minutes later when the Heidenheim deficit went round within a few seconds and the Hardtwald Stadium was transformed into a Hamburg madhouse. It got even louder again just five minutes later when the next Regensburg goal was scored, and yet for Hamburg on the pitch it was of course all about keeping their own result positive.And that was a hard job, because Sandhausen, as in the first half, got into the game better and made it anything but easy for the Rothosen. The longer the game lasted, the more liberated the hosts played and came to more and more game shares. With a quarter of an hour to go, HSV were mainly busy defending their own goal. One could clearly feel that in addition to the physical exhaustion at almost 30 degrees in the blazing sun, the head also came into play. But the Walter team fought back and managed to hold on to the narrow 1-0 lead, but then had to watch as 1. FC Heidenheim performed their own football miracle at the end of the game: In injury time, 1. FCH turned a 1:2 into a 3:2, leaving the HSV players and fans, who were already on the pitch, dejected and stunned. As a result, HSV will have to compete in the relegation, where they will face VfB Stuttgart on 1 and 5 June.

Match Summary:

SV Sandhausen: Drewes - Dumic (65. Ganda), Zhirov, Diakhite - Diekmeier (60. Ajdini), Calhanoglu, Papela (82. Sicker), El-Zein, C. Kinsombi (82. Ademi), Bachmann - Evina (60. Pulkrab)

Hamburger SV: Heuer Fernandes - Heyer, David, Schonlau, Muheim - Meffert, Benes (19. Suhonen), Kittel (87. Krahn) - Königsdörffer (72. Bilbija), Glatzel, Dompe

Goals: 0:1 Dompe (3.)

Attendance: 12.400 (ausverkauft)

Referee: Florian Badstübner (Nürnberg)

Yellow Cards: Ademi / Suhonen, Kittel, Glatzel

Yellow-Red Cards: - / -

Red Cards: - / -