For 77 minutes, everything spoke for his second clean sheet in a row, something Matheo Raab had never experienced before at HSV. Because Fürth’s Jomaine Consbruch scored beautifully and painfully at the same time to make it 1-1, the HSV keeper was then frustrated. Before Raab’s game of the year against his former club Kaiserslautern, the pressure on HSV increased enormously again.
Only fourth place in league two, only four wins from ten games in the second half of the season. Numbers that led Raab to make an appropriate judgment after the final whistle in Fürth. “Regardless of the results of others, this is a setback,” he noted.
Raab not only mourned the missed HSV chances (“We had to make it 2-0”) but was also annoyed at how undisturbed Consbruch was allowed to pull away before the equalizer. “We have a one-man wall,” is how he remembers the free kick. “I think the ball was then pushed back a bit by the referee. We didn’t go out, we just slept there for a bit. Normally nothing happens, but he still hits it like that – a Sunday shot.”
HSV lost two more points in the promotion battle
One that cost HSV two important points in the promotion battle. “For us now it’s about Kaiserslautern that we get three points,” said Raab and looked ahead. “We’ll make sure we win there and then really from game to game.”
A difficult starting position before the game that was so special for Raab. In the summer of 2022 he moved from FCK to HSV after he had recently lifted the Palatinate team into the second division via relegation. As luck would have it, Raab played his first second division game for HSV against his former club in autumn 2022, when he represented regular goalkeeper Daniel Heuer Fernandes. Now the 23-year-old welcomes the FCK as number one for the first time – and with a lot of pressure under the kettle.