Aue goes under in Hamburg: HSV impressively ends the creepy April series

Aue goes down in Hamburg
HSV ends creepy April series impressively

In their fourth year in the second division, Hamburger SV finally managed their first win in April. Erzgebirge Aue suffered a severe setback in the increasingly hopeless relegation battle, while the traditional club from the north did not lose sight of the promotion ranks.

With the first second division victory in April, Hamburger SV ended its negative series and at least preserved the small chance of a return to the Bundesliga. After five games without a threesome, HSV won in a one-sided catch-up game on matchday 28 4-0 (2-0) against the penultimate Erzgebirge Aue, who is nine points behind relegation place 16 and has less and less hope of staying up in the league.

Robert Glatzel (14th), Sonny Kittel (45th + 1), Moritz Heyer (75th) and Ludovit Reis (83rd) scored in front of 21,890 spectators for Hamburg, who advanced to sixth place in the table. The gap to Darmstadt 98 on the last direct promotion place is six points, just like to city rivals FC St. Pauli on the relegation rank. Aue is twelve points away from the saving bank.

Three days after the sobering home defeat against SC Paderborn (1:2), HSV in the Volksparkstadion could see the will to show a different face. Driven by the recently sharply criticized “head” Kittel, the attacks rolled towards the Auer goal, in which Martin Männel had no chance with Glatzel’s header after a Kittel cross. On the other hand, the keeper didn’t look good at Kittel’s flutter ball, which hit almost in the middle to make it 2-0. While HSV missed further good chances, only Dimitrij Nazarov checked HSV goalkeeper Daniel Heuer Fernandes before the break.

After the change, the guests became a little braver, but remained too harmless in the end. HSV then took over more and more command after a good hour, but Glatzel, Josha Vagnoman with a double chance and Reis weren’t lucky. One day after his 27th birthday, Heyer made everything clear with his sixth goal of the season, the Dutch U21 international Reis then ensured the final score. The game, originally scheduled for March 12, was postponed after a corona outbreak at HSV.

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