HSV is slowly coming under pressure in the fight for promotion to the Bundesliga. Coach Steffen Baumgart’s team urgently needs points in the home game against 1. FC Kaiserslautern in order not to lose touch with the top group of the 2nd league. After all, Hamburg even slipped out of the top three after the 1-1 draw in Fürth last week – and now want to get back to a promotion place in the Volksparkstadion. With the MOPO live ticker you won’t miss any crucial scenes in the game.
The game in the live ticker
47 mins Ache needs treatment after a collision with Hadzikadunic and apparently received a blow to the temple. He seems a little dazed, but can carry on.
46 minutes Suhonen stayed in the dressing room, that’s what it’s for now Yatta new on the right wing. Kaiserslautern came back unchanged.
46 minutes The game is running again. And HSV changed.
Kick-off for the 2nd half!
Break in the Volkspark! HSV and Kaiserslautern go into the locker room with a 1-1 draw. Everything actually looked like a half-time lead for Hamburg after László Bénes (34th) scored to take the lead. With the last action of the first half, Ragnar Ache suddenly scored the equalizer (45th + 1) and completely reshuffled the cards for the second half. Everything is open in this game – it will continue in a quarter of an hour.
Half time!
45.+1 min With the half-time whistle, Ache scores the equalizer! Reis loses the ball in midfield to Raschl, who quickly makes the play on the left side. Opoku is not significantly disturbed by Schonlau and passes it across to Ache, who is only able to push it into the empty goal from just one meter at the second post.
45th + 1 minute goal for Kaiserslautern! Ache scores to make it 1-1!
45 minutes One minute is replayed.
43 minutes Raschl crosses from the baseline to the first post, Touré rushes up and heads well wide of the goal. It was more dangerous this afternoon in front of HSV keeper Raab’s goal.
42nd min Lautern starts the final offensive of the first half again. But Opoku can’t prevail against Meffert, the Hamburg player clears it for a corner. Once again it finds no taker.
41st min Raschl is sent deep by Kaloc with a lob and cheekily finishes from an acute angle. Raab is attentive and blocks the mix of shots and crosses.
39 mins Kaiserslautern currently has to collect itself and seems a little impressed by the deficit. The HSV fans are of course in a particularly good mood now.
37 mins Eight minutes before the break, FCK coach Funkel now has to think of a new plan for the half-time speech. Actually, Kaiserslautern didn’t do that badly – but they missed scoring the goal at the front. And, here in this scene, to prevent the backlog.
36 minutes For Bénes it is already the 13th goal of the season – he is probably playing the season of his life. Immediately after hitting the post, he is now rewarded with the goal. Including the trophy, it is already his 15th goal.
34 minutes HSV leads 1-0! Bénes initiates the situation himself and passes to Königsdörffer on the left wing. He tries it directly, but his shot through Touré’s legs is slightly deflected and therefore defused. However, Bénes is attentive and takes the lead from five meters.
34th minute goal for HSV! Bénes makes it 1-0!
32 minutes Post! Hamburg has the best chance of making it 1-0 in this game. Meffert takes Königsdörffer on the left, who passes the ball straight into the middle. At the penalty spot, Bénes takes the ball directly at full risk and hits the post with great force.
31st min Königsdörffer keeps getting stuck on the left side. Touré has had a good grip on the winger so far, and his attempts have mostly fizzled out.
29 mins With Ache’s finish again, the guests now lead 5-3 in shots on goal. HSV has to be careful not to fall behind in this phase.
28 mins In the last few minutes, Kaiserslautern picked up the pace again and became stronger. In terms of scoring chances, the Palatinate team has now at least caught up.
26 mins Raab parries brilliantly! Opoku asserts himself too easily on the left wing and sees Tachie centrally in the box. He irritates Schonlau with a physical illusion and finishes flat. Raab is down in time and blocks the shot strongly.
25 minutes Alas again! After a free kick from the backcourt, Ache somehow gets to the ball in the tangle in the penalty area, turns in a small space and shoots a few meters past the left from the turn.
24 mins Lautern also tries it out with a corner. Schonlau gets his head in the way and clears things up in the style of a captain: completely confidently.
22 minutes Artistic! Meffert has his back to the goal when he receives a rebound from a cross and attempts an overhead kick from the penalty spot. However, the attempt at a Klaus Fischer memorial goal goes about two meters over the goal.
21 mins Again and again it goes through left-back Katterbach, but his crosses or passes are rarely really dangerous. This time too there is only a corner, from which nothing results again.
19 mins Németh is played by Katterbach in the penalty area, but he finishes a bit hastily from the turn. There is nothing more than a deflected and at the same time harmless shot and corner.
18 mins Katterbach tries it from the left side, but then gets stuck in the opponent’s penalty area. Against two opponents he gets stuck and loses the ball.
17 mins The pace has slowed down a bit at the moment. HSV coach Baumgart is always raging wildly on the sidelines, coaching very actively and gesticulating wildly. Apparently not everything is going to his satisfaction so far.
15 minutes Kaiserslautern repeatedly puts HSV under pressure in the midfield and thus provokes ball losses. If they switch quickly, it will always be extremely dangerous for the people of Hamburg.
14 mins The two teams clearly don’t have any teething problems here, at least not in the game going forward. The fans have now seen great opportunities to take the lead on both sides.
12 mins Great opportunity for the FCK! Puchacz dribbled past three opponents and also played the fourth with a one-two with Kaloc. However, his low shot from 15 meters whizzed just past the post.
11 mins Kaiserslautern switches quickly again, this time HSV loses the ball to Ache in midfield. He uses Opoku on the left wing, who is allowed to march up to the penalty area, but finishes far too harmlessly there.
10 minutes Another header opportunity for HSV! After a Bénes corner, Schonlau heads towards goal from four meters, but puts the ball a good meter over the crossbar.
8 mins Lucky for Katterbach after he lost the ball to Tachie in the forward movement and Kaiserslautern was allowed to march towards the Hamburg goal in a two-on-one situation. Schonlau irons out the mistake and decisively deflects the cross pass to Ache.
7 mins It’s a lively start to this game for both teams. Kaiserslautern is not hiding either and is playing refreshed with four new offensive players compared to their cup triumph in Saarbrücken on Wednesday (2-0).
6 mins Bénes has to make it 1-0! Königsdörffer is played by Poreba with a cross at the second post, but prefers to cross again from an acute angle. Bénes rushes into the six-yard box and narrowly misses the lead from two meters with his head.
5 mins Oh! Suddenly Puchacz breaks through on the left side and crosses from the baseline into the center. Ache rises high and significantly higher than the HSV central defense, but heads just over the goal.
4th min First advance now also from the guests. Raschl crosses a free kick from the half field into the penalty area, but cannot find a team-mate.
2nd min Good first action by HSV, Katterbach sends Königsdörffer on the left wing. But he doesn’t bring the ball into the middle with enough determination from the baseline, there’s only a corner kick.
1st minute The ball is rolling in the Volkspark!
Kick-off!
- The two teams run into the Volksparkstadion, which feels full, and are welcomed by the spring-like sun. Let’s go!
- The game’s referee is the extremely experienced FIFA referee Deniz Aytekin from Oberasbach. Eduard Beitinger and Asmir Osmanagic will assist him on the line, Felix Bickel will also be the fourth official and Markus Schmidt will be the video assistant.
- Kaiserslautern starts with this starting eleven: Himmelmann – Touré, Elvedi, Tomiak, Puchacz – Kaloc, Niehues – Tachie, Raschl, Opoku – Ache
- Coach Steffen Baumgart makes three changes compared to the Fürth draw. Noah Katterbach moves to the left-back position for the suspended Miro Muheim, while Lukasz Poreba and Anssi Suhonen rotate into the team for Immanuel Pherai and Bakery Jatta in the offensive. For Suhonen it is first starting eleven appearance in almost exactly a year.
- And this is how HSV starts: Raab – Reis, Hadzikadunic, Schonlau, Katterbach – Meffert – Poreba, Bénes – Suhonen, Németh, Königsdörffer
- Former Lauterer Robert Glatzel, who is now HSV’s top scorer, will be missing again injured. Instead, coach Steffen Baumgart suggested that young goal machine Otto Stange could be “an alternative” for this afternoon.
- It was particularly wild between these two teams in the first leg. In a spectacle on the infamous Betzenberg in Kaiserslautern, FCK and HSV ultimately drew 3-3. It was the third direct duel in league two – and Hamburg has never won before (two draws, one defeat).
- Kaiserslautern, on the other hand, is fighting as 16th in the table. against relegation to the 3rd league. A threesome would also be extremely important for the Palatinate team, as they could make a jump to twelfth place. Otherwise, after Hansa Rostock’s victory the evening before, there is even a risk of 17th place and thus a direct relegation place for FCK.
- But the current reality is only league two. For some, HSV, it is once again about promotion back to the German football upper house – With the 1-1 draw in Fürth a week ago, Hamburg lost third place in the relegation zone and is currently only fourth (45 points) behind Fortuna Düsseldorf (46) and the two top placed St. Pauli (57) and Holstein Kiel (52). . A win and Hamburg would, at least for the time being, move past Düsseldorf again, which only plays against Braunschweig on Sunday.
- HSV against Kaiserslautern – that doesn’t just sound like tradition, there’s also a lot of history in it. This afternoon, a total of ten German championship titles, five DFB Cup victories and an proud 99 years of the Bundesliga are facing each other in the Volkspark.
- Hello and welcome to the MOPO live ticker on Saturday lunchtime! HSV welcomes 1. FC Kaiserslautern in their local Volkspark, kick-off is at 1 p.m.