Up to 15 players affected: tricky international break looms for HSV | OneFootball

After Matchday 4, the Bundesliga is heading into a three-week international break. This could hit HSV harder than ever.

From a club’s perspective, having players called up for international duty is always a bit of a mixed bag: on the one hand, it is rightly seen as an honor when your own players get to prove themselves on the international stage and compete with some of the best players in the world. On the other hand, the resulting absence of numerous squad members makes training operations massively more difficult. That is especially fatal when things are not going well on the pitch anyway and a largely newly assembled team is still searching for its rhythm and understanding.

HSV currently find themselves in exactly this dilemma. The Rothosen have made a proper mess of the start to the season and, after three matchdays, sit bottom of the table without a single point or goal. The international break beginning after the Cologne game would therefore actually offer a welcome opportunity to spend several weeks working more intensively on building cohesion. But is that really realistic?

HSV could be missing an entire team

Probably not. There is a real possibility that HSV coach Merlin Polzin will have to do without more than a full team over the next three weeks. With Otto Stange, Louis Lemke (Germany youth teams), Sander Tangvik, David Möller Wolfe (Norway), Albert Grønbæk (Denmark), Miro Muheim (Switzerland), Immanuel Pherai (Suriname), Patson Daka (Zambia), Terem Moffi (Nigeria), Zakaria El Ouahdi (Morocco) and Nicolas Capaldo (Argentina), a total of twelve Hamburg players have already been called up by their national teams at some point this year.

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And of course, not every one of the names mentioned will actually take the field for his country during this international break. Capaldo, for example, is likely to have only the slimmest of outside chances of being called up to the Albiceleste. On the other hand, there are HSV stars who could soon take the first step in their international careers. Chief among them are midfielders Bilal Nadir (Morocco) and Nicolai Remberg, who, according to Sky, is at least on the radar of new Germany head coach Jürgen Klopp.

In addition, veteran Yussuf Poulsen has repeatedly emphasized in recent months how strong his desire is to continue playing for Denmark. He, too, can at least dream of a call-up. In the absolute worst-case scenario, Polzin could therefore be without as many as 15 players while preparing for the away match in Hoffenheim (10 October, 3:30 p.m.). Exactly how many it will be in the end will only become clear in the coming days.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.