Hamburger SV has again missed an important step towards the Bundesliga. The team of coach Merlin Polzin received the second home defeat in a row with the 1: 2 (1: 2) against Karlsruher SC and has been winning without a win for three games. Louy Ben Farhat (30th minute) and Marvin Wanitzek (45.+3) shocked the HSV twice with their goals for the KSC. The converted penalty by Davie Selke (42nd) for the meantime was too little for the hosts.
“It was not enough in a home game,” said goalkeeper Daniel Heuer Fernandes: “But we are rightly up there because we have gone the way over the past few months. That has to go back into our heads.” Davie Selke emphasized the absolute conviction “that we make it this year”.
The fact that the HSV still has good prospects for returning to the first class three games before the end of the season is also due to the weakness of the promotion competition.
The KSC itself has maintained its chance of the promotion relegation place three.
The game was competitive in front of 57,000 spectators in the newly sold -out folk park stadium. The HSV struggled to check the game. But the guests were good and tried to get dangerously in front of the opposing goal by counterattacking. The Hamburgers were too lacking in their offensive campaigns.
Two shock moments for the HSV before the break
Then the shock for the HSV: With her first successful attack, the Karlsruhe took the lead by 18-year-old Ben Farhat. After all, the hosts were not impressed for long. The penalty that was brought out by Adam Karabec and converted by Selke to his 20th SizeToror was the deserved reward for the effort.
But the joy did not last for a long time. In added time, Wanitzek used the confusion in HSV defense for his twelfth goal of the season. According to video evidence, referee Florian Lechner decided on goal.
After the break, the HSV players looked like the role. Goalkeeper Daniel Heuer-Fernandes had to save Bambasé Conté (50th). A minute later, Ben Farhat only hit the post. The Hamburgers continued to make life difficult and were too harmless. The KSC was hardly in danger. The guests were only lucky once when Robert Glatzel (81st) hit the post.