Königsdörffer two times - HSV succeeds at 1. FC Köln

Burger SV began the subsequent division season with a success. With the 2:1 (2:0) win on Friday night at 1. FC Cologne, the Hanseatics offered their most memorable expression, as the Rhinelanders are among the competitors for advancement to the Bundesliga.

by Johannes Freytag

Ransford-Yeboah Königsdörffer had put mentor Steffen Baumgart's group leading the pack with a support at his old favorite spot, and Linton Maina scored the balancer for the hosts. Yet, the Rhinelanders couldn't accomplish more than that, as they had essentially more belonging yet seldom made any truly convincing scoring open doors. HSV dazzled with a minimal and stable guarded presentation and eventually deservedly took the three focuses.

"In the end, it was gross, yet we needed to be gross."

HSV chief Sebastian Schonlau

"That is the way you need to see the subsequent division: with a ton of battling soul and a ton of heart - and an extraordinary climate in the arena," said HSV commander Sebastian Schonlau after the last whistle. His group needed to dominate the initial game, "generally the strain would have been on straight away. So it was a pleasant beginning and we can have a decent end of the week."

Königsdörffer exploits Urbig's misstep

Baumgart requested two rookies into the beginning eleven in midfielders Daniel Elfadli (protective) and Adam Karabec (hostile), while aggressor Davie Selke at first sat on the seat against his previous club. He presumably could have done without what he saw from that point in the initial couple of moments of the game: HSV began whimsically in protection, Dejan Ljubičić (second) and Denis Huseinbašić (third) might have put the "Effzeh" ahead right off the bat.

But it was Hamburg who scored the main objective of the new second division season. Cologne manager Jonas Urbig dropped an innocuous ball from Jean-Luc Dompé towards the objective, Königsdörffer said thanks to him and opened home the 1-0 for the North Germans (sixth).

HSV stable, Königsdörffer scores a support

The objective made a difference: From that point on, Baumgart's eleven acted all the more unhesitatingly, were more steady protectively and, subsequent to winning the ball, over and over conveyed pinpricks through speedy change play: Urbig clutched a Dompé shot this time (seventeenth moment), Königsdörffer's redirected shot arrived in the net (eighteenth moment). It took until the 33rd moment before the hosts by and by showed up perilously before the HSV objective, however Ljubičić shot wide.

Königsdörffer demonstrated the way that it very well may be improved right away a while later: Urbig's header from Karabec's cross hit the crossbar, however the HSV aggressor crushed the bounce back into the net to make it 2-0 (35'). The practically euphoric state of mind toward the beginning of the game in the Cologne arena, which was sold out with 50,000 individuals, had given way to bafflement.

The Sires kept on playing forward with extraordinary responsibility, however couldn't traverse against the smaller and solid handling visitors. What's more, in the event that they did, there was Daniel Heuer Fernandes: The substitution for the debilitated number one at HSV, Matheo Raab, forestalled a potential objective with a solid save against Tim Lemperle (45.+2).

Cologne's Maina makes fervor

Cologne emerged from the changing area with a ton of energy and had a twofold opportunity through Jan Thielmann and Ljubičić, yet Heuer Fernandes upset them (53'). Schonlau impeded Damion Downs' gone for a corner (56'). HSV seldom tracked down their direction into the adversary's punishment region and restricted themselves to guarding.

The Hanseatics got along admirably, Cologne's opportunities to score were seldom convincing - just like with Huseinbašić, who couldn't head the ball into the HSV objective after a decent cross from Thielmann (72'). Yet, the objective came: Ljubičić's exact cross was finished by the previous Hanover player Maina with a strong header to make it 1:2 (78').

Solid HSV start

Presently the group was back and pushed the host group forward. They ran frantically, Maina had another great shot - into the arms of Heuer Fernandes (90th moment). Nothing truly risky occurred in stoppage time either, so the score stayed 2-1 for the guests.

The Hamburg group has accordingly proceeded with its great starting record. Only one of the seven games on the first matchday of a subsequent division season was lost, in 2018 against Holstein Kiel. Notwithstanding, it was never enough for the yearned for return to the Bundesliga...