Robert Glatzel will be out for weeks – diagnosis known

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Injury shock for HSV striker Glatzel

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Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Bitter news for him HSV before the cup game against Holstein Kiel: Robert Glatzel was more seriously injured against Stuttgart than feared. The 31-year-old, who opened the door to a home win (2-1) with a 1-0 win on Sunday, has torn a muscle fiber in his right thigh. The people of Hamburg announced this on Tuesday. Glatzel will definitely be out of the current calendar year.

After the cup duel on Wednesday, HSV will play against Werder Bremen, TSG Hoffenheim and Eintracht Frankfurt until Christmas.

A competitor of HSV in the relegation battle is pulling the ripcord: As the club announced on Monday, FC Augsburg has parted ways with coach Sandro Wagner. The decision was made by mutual agreement, according to the statement. Manuel Baum will take over as FCA head coach on an interim basis until the winter break.

Wagner’s Augsburg team defeated HSV 1-0 a little over a week ago, but lost 3-0 in Hoffenheim last Saturday. With ten points, FCA is in 14th place after twelve games, one place and two points behind Hamburg. With 27 goals conceded, the “Fuggerstädter” currently have the weakest defense in the Bundesliga.

Luka Vušković has hit the ground running for HSV: the central defender hasn’t missed a minute since his debut on matchday 3. At the age of 18, he even became head of defense for the newly promoted team and even scored a goal in the 2-1 win over Heidenheim. As a reward, the fans voted Vušković as the Bundesliga’s official “Rookie of the Month” twice.

The up-and-coming Croatian will soon even be available to collect: Playmobil will bring Luka Vušković onto the market in March 2026 as one of six figures. In addition to the HSV talent, these are Harry Kane, Mario Götze, Angelo Stiller, Julian Brandt and Saïd El Mala.

This marks the start of their collaboration with Playmobil and the DFL: for the 2026/27 season, eleven players per team will be created as authentic figures. There will then be a total of 198 characters to collect.

To this day he is considered the best HSV coach of all time, and he is the most successful anyway: Ernst Happel would have been 100 years old on November 29th. The Viennese was in office for exactly 2,190 days, from July 1, 1981 to June 30, 1987 – only Günter Mahlmann (1956-1962) managed to survive on the HSV bench for that long. With his football, Ernst Happel led Hamburg to two German championships (1982, 1983), a DFB Cup victory (1987) and a triumph in the European Cup (1983), today’s Champions League.