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Despite the result crisis: HSV opponent warns of “top quality”
Updated on 02.05.2025 – 4:40 p.m.Reading time: 27 min.
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Darmstadt coach Florian Kohlfeldt expects a “very energetic HSV team”. On Saturday, his team will meet the north club in the home game. It must be the task of his team to “slow this first rush, so to speak,” said the 42-year-old.
Most recently, the HSV stumbled several times in the promotion race. The Hamburgers only got one counter from the past three games, but are still second in the table before the 32nd matchday. Despite the opponent’s result crisis, Kohfeldt has great respect. The HSV team has “absolute individual top quality”. “Actually, in every position in this squad from the goalkeeper to the center forward,” emphasized Kohfeldt.
The fact that the coach worked for the HSV rival Werder Bremen for a long time has no additional explosiveness. “This does not matter for me. I am a coach of the lilies,” said Kohfeldt, who was the first Darmstadt coach to win against the red pants at the Böllenfall goal.
Hamburger SV is under growing pressure in the end of the season of the 2nd Bundesliga-and wants to find the way back to the road to success with a victory in Darmstadt. After three games without victory and unsettled appearances, most recently in 1: 2 against Karlsruher SC, InterimScoach Merlin Polzin wants to set an example: “We have to competition,” he said, emphasizing that one would not be put off by outer criticism. Sports board member Stefan Kuntz, who spoke on Monday in front of the team, described the current phase as a “normal challenge” in professional life.
Before the duel on Saturday (1 p.m.), Polzin is expected to return to defender Miro Muheim, who is burning after a muscle fiber tear, back to the starting XI. The game at the Böllenfall goal is a good pavement for the HSV: in all previous ten games there, the Hamburgers scored. Despite nerve flutter, Polzin sees his team with a three -point lead over the pursuer Magdeburg in a “really good position”.
Hamburger SV hopes for the return of defender Miro Muheim in the promotion race of the 2nd Bundesliga. Three weeks after his muscle fiber tear in the calf, the Swiss international was once again again with the team on the training ground on Wednesday.
HSV has remained without a win since the 26-year-old’s failure. Against Braunschweig (2: 4), Schalke (2: 2) and Karlsruhe (1: 2), the team only scored one point. On Saturday (1 p.m./Sky) at Bundesliga relegated Darmstadt 98, Muheim could be back in the squad.
The HSV sets the course for the season finale of the second division – and apparently also thinks of the case of a missed ascent. Should Merlin Polzin make the leap into the Bundesliga with the team, the 34-year-old is in front of the end of the “Sport Bild” as head coach.
Lukas Kwasniok from SC Paderborn is considered the possible successor. The 43-year-old, who leaves the East Westphalia after the end of the season, has been on the list of Hamburgers for a long time. The HSV was already interested in an obligation last winter, but the change failed due to the transfer fee: According to media reports, Paderborn had asked for one million euros.
Kwasniok would be cheaper this summer. According to the magazine, a transfer would be due in the “high six -digit range”.
After the third winless game in a row, the fear of the failure in the promotion race at the HSV is about the fear of renewed failure. But board boss Stefan Kuntz does not want to know anything about Actionism among the Hamburgers. “We start as normal as possible. This is a normal challenge that everyone can stand in the way of working life every day,” said Kuntz on Monday in a media round after training.
On Sunday, the HSV lost 1-2 against Karlsruher SC, especially in the second half, the players seemed paralysis. Hamburg still has three points three points before the end of the season as the second in the table. FC Magdeburg in third place and also has the significantly better goal difference.