More red cards than goals: Vieira’s dilemma at HSV! | OneFootball

On Deadline Day, Fabio Vieira joined HSV as a new beacon of hope. However, for a surprising reason, there has been little evidence of this so far.

After Fabio Vieira played his first home game for Hamburger SV against 1. FC Heidenheim (2:1), everyone involved agreed: This boy is different from almost all the players who have been at Volksparkstadion in recent years.

Stadium announcer Christian Stübinger summed it up even better when Vieira was substituted: “I haven’t seen a player like this in an HSV jersey for a long time.” That said it all. With an outstanding performance and the assist for the decisive 2:0, the Portuguese player was instrumental in the Hanseatic side’s first win of the season.

But if you look at Vieira’s offensive statistics nearly six weeks later, that one assist is all there is to show for it. His qualities, which are obvious to everyone, have so far not been reflected in the numbers.

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The reason for this is relatively simple: Vieira doesn’t play enough! After the first quarter of the season, the technically gifted number ten has only clocked up 354 minutes on the pitch—not even the duration of four full matches.

The main reason is his controversial yellow-red card against Union Berlin (0:0), when Vieira crashed into Leopold Querfeld in stoppage time and injured himself in the process. As a result, he missed the following two matches, both suspended and injured. He made his comeback against VfL Wolfsburg—initially only as a substitute. A week later, he returned to the starting lineup in the 1:4 defeat against 1. FC Köln.

However, Vieira experienced a bitter evening at the RheinEnergieStadion. His supposed goal to make it 1:2 was disallowed after several minutes of VAR review. Even more frustrating: In the final stages, he received a yellow-red card from referee Daniel Schlager for protesting time-wasting—his second in an HSV jersey!

And even though the correctness of this decision can certainly be debated, Vieira had probably worked hard for this sending-off. “Even in the first half, the player kept coming up to me and protesting. Still, I tried to communicate with him and pointed out that he should stop. It didn’t stop in the second half either. And at some point, even I reach my limit,” Schlager explained after the match to DAZN.

Thus, Vieira will also be unavailable for HSV against Borussia Dortmund (08.11, 3:30 p.m.). His meager tally of just one assist will remain for the time being.

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