As of: February 4, 2024 12:57 p.m
HSV has overcome Hertha BSC’s difficult away hurdle and taken another small step towards the Bundesliga. The match winner in the 2-1 win in Berlin was a man who had already made Hamburg on the Spree dream of promotion: Ludovit Reis.
After a very long evening of football, Tim was looking for closeness with Walter. The 48-year-old threw away his water bottle, which the HSV coach always keeps in his hand during games, after the final whistle of the second division thriller in the Olympic Stadium. Now, as he walked into the fan corner, the coach put his right arm over Ludovit Reis’ shoulder, said a few words to the Dutchman with a smile on his lips and finally kissed him on the forehead. The midfielder’s “kiss” from his superior was directed at exactly the part of his body with which he had previously scored the winning goal.
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“I had already told ‘Manu’ two minutes earlier that he had to look at me – it was a top assist,” said the 23-year-old about his header goal to make it 2-1, which Immanuel Pherai scored with a soulful and precise assist had prepared perfectly. Pherai, of all people, was the one who slipped into the starting eleven for him. While Reis had surprisingly been in the starting line-up the previous week against Karlsruher SC (3:4) after a month-long injury break, he initially sat on the substitutes’ bench against Hertha.
The Dutchman didn’t express frustration. He put the big picture in the foreground: “All in all, it was a very important win against a good team. We want to win every game and would have liked to have done so on the last matchday. We were just focused on this game.”
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HSV impressed against Hertha with their mature style of play
Nobody who examined the Hamburgers on that cool evening in Berlin could actually contradict this statement. Unlike against KSC, the Walter team was very focused, impressed in their work against the ball and had a better and more mature playing system than Hertha, who also had the difficult quarter-final cup game last Wednesday against 1. FC Kaiserslautern (1:3) was still noticeable.
Against Berliners who were pretty unimaginative in terms of football, HSV could have been on the road to victory in the dominant first half. However, because the Walter team did not take advantage of their chances, the second 45 minutes became a nervous thriller. Strictly speaking, the second round lasted over 75 minutes because some tennis fans among the Berlin supporters wanted to express their love for the “white sport” and continually threw yellow felt balls onto the lawn.
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As understandable as this form of protest against the German Football League’s (DFL) plans for investor entry may be, the 30-minute interruption was a nuisance for Hertha, which is now threatened with a hefty fine, and the players.
“Such a protest won’t get us anywhere. But we have to be careful that we don’t lose the DNA in football,” Berlin striker Fabian Reese told NDR. Hertha managing director Thomas Herrich explained: “I completely understand the criticism. It is completely legitimate to take actions and express criticism. The manner is different. That went on for too long for me. That disrupted the flow of the game. ” He announced that he wanted to seek dialogue with the fans.
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HSV cannot be put out of its mind
It was the second “tennis game” in a row for HSV. In the duel with the KSC, his supporters had used the same action to cause an interruption – albeit a much shorter one. At this point, the Walter team was 0-2 behind against the Baden team and used the break to collect themselves and regroup. In Berlin, the interruption was rather disruptive for the people of Hamburg because they had everything under control.
Keeper Daniel Heuer Fernandes described the forced break as “not optimal,” but immediately emphasized that his team was not thrown off course by it: “We accepted the game and the circumstances at all times: We had from the first to the second There was a lot of energy on the pitch in the last minute. We believed in it and left the pitch as deserved winners.”
Reis particularly enjoys scoring against Hertha
Because SpVgg Greuther Fürth (2:3 at FC St. Pauli) and Holstein Kiel (1:1 at 1. FC Magdeburg) made mistakes, HSV improved to second place in the table with their third away win in a row. As of now, Hamburg would avoid a relegation hat-trick and achieve the longed-for promotion after six years. A year and a half ago they already had their foot in the door to the Bundesliga. In Berlin. And because of Ludovit rice.
The Dutchman scored the 1-0 winning goal in the relegation first leg at Hertha. Afterwards, there was great confidence at HSV and actually throughout the city that they could achieve promotion perfectly in front of their home crowd. This was followed by a 2-0 defeat that shattered the first division dream. This season there was also the unnecessary cup exit on penalties on the Spree.
But it may have been the last business trip for the Walter team to the Olympic Stadium. If everything goes as planned for the North Germans, they will not go to Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf next season, but to Treptow-Köpenick. Hertha’s city rivals Union have their home there. And as we all know, the “Irons” are a Bundesliga team.
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