After the “maximum bitter” drama on the last second division match day, Hamburger SV firmly believes in a happy ending in the relegation.
You have already experienced “so many setbacks” in Hamburg, said HSV sports director Jonas Boldt on “Sky”, “and we always got up. We will get up again.”
The relegation against the first division 16. VfB Stuttgart on June 1st and 5th will be “a tight match, I’m pretty sure of that,” said Boldt. You have to “continue to believe, I do that 100 percent. We will also convey that to everyone else who doesn’t believe it in the coming days.”
The North Germans won their game on Sunday at SV Sandhausen 1-0, but 1. FC Heidenheim maintained second place thanks to two goals in added time (3-2 at Jahn Regensburg) and rose. HSV, on the other hand, missed the direct Bundesliga return at the fifth attempt. “Maximum bitterness,” Boldt commented on the events: “It is what it is and is part of the sport.”
The Hamburg head of sports focused directly on the games next Thursday in Stuttgart and four days later in the Volkspark. On Monday you will “still have to stroke one or the other wound, physically and maybe mentally”. But you have “two more chances now,” said Boldt. You have to “shake your heads once”, take the “all the energy” from the final spurt of the season with three wins and finally draw conclusions from last season’s relegation: “And then we’ll see what’s going on Monday evening.”