A draw would have been enough for the relegation. But the HSV clears the way for Heidenheim with a 1: 5 against Sandhausen – and remains second division.
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So far it had come at the Hamburg sports club, the former European Cup winner should have been happy about the relegation against Werder Bremen. At the beginning of July, the two most important clubs in the north should have played out a place in the Bundesliga, but that didn’t even happen because HSV itself missed this chance of probation. Even a draw would have been enough on Sunday afternoon in the Volksparkstadion against SV Sandhausen to at least finish third in the second division because promoted Arminia Bielefeld defeated 1. FC Heidenheim 3-0. But HSV seriously lost 1: 5 (0: 2) against Sandhausen in their own arena – and remains second-rate after this enormously embarrassing defeat.
Another low point in the club’s history. Can that be true, Werder against Heidenheim for the whereabouts or promotion to league one instead of Werder against HSV? Another year in league two for the once glorious HSV, despite all the opportunities this season and also on this last game day? The brave 1. FC Heidenheim is allowed to apply for a place in league one, but not the famous Hamburger SV, who really doesn’t succeed anymore, even though there is always a new coach trying, a new head of sports, a new team, a new one Board of directors and so on. Optimists had thought that Dieter Hecking, as a seasoned trainer, would have brought calm, but also failed his mission thoroughly.
There is nothing to excuse, said after the debacle Marcell Jansen, former national team player and currently HSV president. The legs were heavy, the heads slow. One now has to “go into the analysis.” It will be shown what the analysis means for Hecking and sports director Jonas Boldt. What is certain is that HSV did not make it into this line-up and ended up going down against an opponent whose best-known man is Dennis Diekmeier and who had relegated from the Bundesliga in 2018 with HSV.
Previously, in other times, a league duel with SV Sandhausen would have been an insult to HSV. Sandhausen? At HSV they looked at Munich, Milan, Madrid, but that was a few years ago. In the meantime, the former top club after its first relegation from the Bundesliga has passed the second year in league two and has struggled to make ends meet especially after the Corona break. If the games had lasted just under 90 minutes, Hecking’s ensemble would probably have progressed, but his team lost the last four or four points in the last minutes or seconds, including last weekend in Heidenheim, another city, the Hamburgers in proud years had to search on the map.
“It would be a question of character,” Hecking anticipated. “If we make it in the end, we deserve it. If we don’t make it, we deserve it.”
You didn’t deserve it, it quickly became clear.
At HSV things go wrong, what can go wrong, that is known, but so? After 13 minutes, Rick van Drongelen pushed the ball into the net, but into his own, after a Sandhauser cross. 0: 1. In addition, Arminia Bielefeld shot 1-0 against Heidenheim, the Hamburg opponent for third place, seconds later. And shortly afterwards, Arminia led 2-0.
The second division champion paved the way for HSV, but HSV stumbled on: van Drongelen picked up the offside, Kevin Behrens ran alone to Julian Pollersbeck and shot in casually. 22nd minute. 0: 2. A question of character? Also a defense question. And a question of nerves and stamina – and positioning. Hecking ran a confused triple chain with the Brazilian Ewerton, who had hardly played for weeks.
Even Hamburg pessimists had not necessarily expected such a depressing course. On top of that, the unfortunate Dutchman van Drongelen, actually the most valuable hamburger, seriously injured his knee after half an hour. Bakary Jatta came for the center-back, an attempt to turn the accident into momentum for the offensive.
The new hope came after a penalty after 62 minutes, Aaron Hunt converted the penalty. 1: 2. A goal yet, Bielefeld had meanwhile made it 3-0 against Heidenheim. In the end it looked as if the team captain Hunt had to do it alone, looking for the goalkeeper Joel Pohjanpalo or Sonny Kittel, especially the Finn Pohjanpalo. Would a gate be enough to pass Heidenheim? Instead, penalty penalty Sandhausen, again Behrens: 1: 4. The 1: 5 by Diekmeier, yes, the second goal as a professional in the life of Dennis Diekmeier, was the punch line in the empty Volkspark Stadium, in the game of fate against Sandhausen. Surreal. The HSV is and remains a second division club – without relegation against Werder.
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