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Penalty thriller: HSV women reach cup quarter-finals
Updated 11/16/2025 – 7:32 p.mReading time: 26 minutes
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The Hamburger SV footballers are in the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup. Head coach Liese Brancao’s team beat Bundesliga rivals Bayer Leverkusen 4-2 on penalties. After 90 minutes and after extra time the score was 1:1 (0:0). Eleven days earlier, Leverkusen had won the league duel 2-1.
All four Hamburg shooters were successful in the penalty shootout. On the other hand, Bayer’s Julia Mickenhagen failed to hit the crossbar due to HSV goalkeeper Larissa Haidner and Caroline Kehrer. In regular time, Sophie Hillebrand (68th) gave the hosts the lead, and Mickenhagen equalized just five minutes later.
Hamburg had recently lost its footing in the Bundesliga. In six games they suffered five defeats and one draw. There was no sign of uncertainty for the promoted team against Leverkusen, fifth in the Bundesliga. The Hamburg women were at least equal. The move into the last eight was fortunate, but not undeserved.
Last summer, Sebastian Schonlau turned his back on Hamburger SV. The fact that he will one day play in the Hanseatic city again is obviously an option for the former captain of the “Rothosen” – after his active playing career. “Of course I can also imagine returning to HSV. Because the club will always remain a very special club for me,” said the 31-year-old to “Sportbild”.
For example, he maintains a “trusting relationship” with current HSV sports director Stefan Kuntz. What would be conceivable for him in the future would be less a coaching position and more a job in the management area, says Schonlau, who explains: “I’m interested in how a club is run. And the nice thing is: During my time in Hamburg I was able to get a taste of it under Jonas Boldt (ex-sports director) and Eric Huwer (finance boss), and I learned a lot from both of them.”
Schonlau moved from HSV to the Vancouver Whitecaps in the North American MLS at the end of August. He had previously been sorted out in Hamburg. “That was very difficult and hurt a lot,” Schonlau admits looking back. “Nevertheless, we know how things work in football and that this development can happen: that the club decides on other players. That is legitimate and has to be accepted.”