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Meffert failure against Nuremberg? Polzin gives update
Updated on 03.04.2025 – 4:26 pmReading time: 8 min.
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Missing regular player Jonas Meffert to Hamburger SV at the away game on Saturday against 1. FC Nürnberg (1 p.m.)? Coach Merlin Polzin was not yet able to answer this question on Thursday.
“We honestly have to see what it looks like for the weekend,” said the head coach of the second in the table. “He was cared for as possible together with the medical department. It was all relatively quick.” Now you have to look from day to day.
The importance of 30-year-old Meffert is in defensive midfield is already evident from the fact that he was in the starting eleven in his 23 game missions this season. However, one does not want to take a risk. “Because of course we also know about the importance of the upcoming games. It is simply important for me that if he – and he will then run with a mask – simply brings his performance optimally, that this does not restrict him,” said Polzin.
Hamburger SV has to worry about the use of midfielder Jonas Meffert before the important away game at the 1st FC Nürnberg. The 30-year-old contracted a broken nose in the training camp on Mallorca on a collision with newcomer Emir Sahiti and then traveled back to Hamburg prematurely.
It remains uncertain whether Meffert is ready for use in good time. The rest of the team completes a last training session on the Spanish island on Wednesday before going back to northern Germany. The game against Nuremberg will take place on Saturday at 1 p.m. (live at Sky).
Hamburger SV has reached a new milestone and now counts 120,000 club members. As the second division club announced, only six other clubs in Germany belong to such a large group of members. President Marcell Jansen was pleased with the constant growth: “This sensational brand once again proves how the cohesion within the HSV family is.”
A year ago, the traditional club had counted 110,000 members. For comparison: FC Bayern Munich announced at the end of February that he now had 400,000 members – as well as Benfica Lisbon. Both clubs are therefore the top of the highest membership football clubs worldwide.
Hamburger SV has completed its first training session in the short training camp in Mallorca in bright sunshine. On the site of RCD Mallorca, coach Merlin Polzin had to do without Immanuel Pherai and Dennis Hadžikadunić. Pherai stayed with a fever in the hotel, Hadžikadunić followed the training from the side of the side. The defender had cheated his shoulder at 0-0 against SV Elversberg.
The lead in the league, but Hamburger SV is not deterred by this: Hamburger SV does not leave anything to chance in the end of the season of the 2nd Bundesliga. One day after the 0-0 against SV Elversberg, the second in the table announced a short training camp in Mallorca. From Sunday to Wednesday, the team is preparing for the crucial weeks in the promotion battle.
“We want to consciously out of everyday training in Hamburg and get in the mood for the final sprint with intensive and focused units and work on numerous details,” said HSV head coach Merlin Polzin. Team formation is also important: “We will deliberately spend a lot of time together in order to combine even more closely as a team.”