HSV loanee ends two-year goal drought! | OneFootball

Immanuel Pherai arrived at HSV as a great beacon of hope but was unable to live up to expectations. Now things are looking up for him again at SV Elversberg.

On Deadline Day, the Hanseatic club, who also brought Otto Stange back from there at the same time, allowed the attacking midfielder to leave on loan and also granted the Saarland club a purchase option in the seven-figure range. Pherai, whose last goal in German professional football came on 20 January 2024 — excluding a brace in the DFB-Pokal against Meppen (7:1/18/08/2024) — immediately established himself as a regular starter. But around the opposition goal, he continued to have no luck.

On Friday evening, however, the drought finally ended. SV Elversberg, once again in the race for promotion, beat Karlsruher SC 3:0 after yet another highly convincing footballing display. Pherai played a leading role. In the 26th minute, he ended a goal drought that had lasted 41 second-division matches. The goal was one of the easier ones he will score. The Amsterdam-born player only had to push the ball over the line after a pass from Lukas Petkov.

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“Against Fürth and Schalke I had chances at my feet but couldn’t get the ball over the line. And then today, the first one, which was so easy, naturally gives me a lot of confidence,” said Pherai in the subsequent Sportschau interview. Shortly after the break, he struck again. This time, the 24-year-old wrong-footed his marker Marcel Franke with a quick move and smashed the ball into the roof of the net for 2:0 with his weaker left foot.

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Shortly afterwards, provider Tom Zimmerschied added the third goal. With the clear home win, SVE temporarily climbed to third place, the position they also occupied at the end of last season, just one point behind HSV. It is possible that both clubs will find themselves back in the top flight in the near future. The coming weeks will show to what extent Pherai will be involved in that encounter.

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