The season opener of the 2nd division kept what it promised. Bundesliga relegated Schalke and HSV fought a classy duel. Terodde, who moved from Hamburg to the Gelsenkirchen team, provided the first highlight of the game. It never got boring afterwards.
Dimitrios Grammozis did not look particularly happy when he got his knocked players off to clap. When going to the fans, the coach of FC Schalke 04 and his professionals received warm applause from the almost 20,000 fans – despite the 1: 3 (1: 0) defeat at the start of the second division against fellow favorites Hamburger SV . Loud “Schalke” calls echoed from the north curve on Friday evening.
“We are very disappointed that we are giving up the game late,” said Dominick Drexler, who has only been with the team for a few days, on Sat.1 after the Royal Blues’ first second division game in 30 years. “It sucks that we lost a game, you just have to say that. Nevertheless, I know what it takes for staying power, the first day of the game is not decisive. “
After 100 first division duels, it was the first comparison between the two teams in the lower house. The former Hamburg-based Simon Terodde gave the hosts an early lead (7th minute). But Robert Glatzel (53rd), Moritz Heyer (86th) and Bakery Jatta (90th) turned the game for HSV, for which it is now the fourth season in the second division.
“We still have some catching up to do,” said HSV coach Tim Walter, “we were kissed awake with the goal and got into the game better.” The victory was “a start, but nothing more”. Hamburg’s defender Sebastian Schonlau said on Sky: “You can see: The team believes in it!”
Schalke initially got off to a dream start. Loudly cheered on by the 19,770 admitted spectators, the miners stormed off cheerfully, as if the long series of defeats had not happened in the dramatic 2020/21 season. In the fifth minute, Terodde had an early chance to take the lead against his ex-club.
An anxious wait, then Terodde’s hit counted
“We’re really up for this game,” Grammozis had said before the game – and you could actually see that in the Royal Blues. The coach had called eight entries into the starting line-up. Drexler, who was only signed from Cologne during the week, was surprisingly in the first formation that should initiate the Schalke new beginning. And the newly formed team was a lot of fun.
Two minutes after his first chance, Terodde gave the home side the lead. After the assistant referee had initially not given the goal because of offside, Günter Perl overruled the decision in the Cologne basement and thus triggered a colossal cry of joy in which all the frustration and suffering from the previous season was discharged among the Schalke fans. “Front runner, front runner”, it echoed through the arena afterwards.
It took HSV a while to recover from the shock of the false start. After that, the team of the new coach Tim Walter got the game under control and had a great chance to equalize in the 27th minute. But Glatzel failed with a penalty kick against Schalke goalkeeper Michael Langer, who was only in goal because regular goalkeeper Ralf Fährmann was missing after a positive corona test.
At the break, the new Schalke team led 1-0 and were said goodbye to warm applause. Only the injury of captain Danny Latza clouded the joy a little.
But even after the break, HSV remained the better team in terms of play and was rewarded with the equalizer shortly after the break. Tim Leibold failed with a free kick at the strongly reacting Langer, but Glatzel was on the spot in the margin and made up for his missed shot from the penalty spot. After that, a gripping game developed which, despite all its shortcomings, made a lot of fun for this league with its numerous traditional clubs. Bakery Jatta awarded for HSV (54th), Thomas Ouwejan (55th) and Terodde (61st) for Schalke. Then Hamburg turned it up again.
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