Third defeat on the bounce: HSV also lose to Hoffenheim! | OneFootball

HSV remain stuck in place in the relegation battle. The 1:2 defeat to TSG Hoffenheim was their third loss in a row.

Given the results from Wolfsburg and Heidenheim, it was clear that HSV had a big chance to take a major step toward automatic survival. And that was exactly how the Rothosen started: extremely aggressive off the ball, the home side kept looking for the quickest route forward and created their first chances through Bakery Jatta (2') and Ransford Königsdörffer (5', 6').

But TSG turned the game on its head with one moment: Fisnik Asllani coolly finished a perfectly delivered cross from Vladimir Coufal to make it 1:0 (18'). HSV were not shaken by the setback, though, and had the right response ready: after a huge mistake by Ozan Kabak, Robert Glatzel won a penalty and then converted it himself to make it 1:1 (34').

Kabak nearly made up for his error at the other end. But Daniel Heuer Fernandes produced an outstanding save to deny the centre-back’s header (35'). Ten minutes later, however, the HSV goalkeeper was helpless against a close-range effort from Tim Lemperle (45'). That left HSV trailing 1:2 at half-time in a result that was as bitter as it was avoidable.

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Jatta with HSV’s best chance to equalise

The opening phase of the second half belonged to the visitors from Hoffenheim. The impressive Asllani (52') and Bazoumana Toure (54') forced Heuer Fernandes into two difficult saves. Apart from a blocked effort from Königsdörffer (56'), HSV offered very little going forward.

Only after a longer spell of both sides cancelling each other out did the promoted side get their clearest chance to level things. Completely unmarked, Bakery Jatta headed a cross from Fabio Vieira over the Hoffenheim goal (74'). In the closing stages, however, HSV too rarely managed to put the visitors from Kraichgau under real pressure. In the end, it was a deserved 1:2 defeat, one that leaves the Hanseatic side still looking nervously over their shoulder in the fight for survival. Their lead over the relegation play-off spot remains five points.

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Hamburger SV – TSG Hoffenheim 1:2 (1:2)

HSV: Heuer Fernandes, Jatta (74' Gocholeishvili), Capaldo, Torunarigha, Omari (87' Philippe), Mikelbrencis (74' Lokonga), Remberg (87' Downs), Grønbaek, Vieira, Glatzel (64' Stange), Königsdörffer

Hoffenheim: Baumann, Hranac (46' Bernardo), Kabak, Hajdari, Coufal, Avdullahu, Burger, Kramaric (75' Prass), Asllani (64' Prömel), Lemperle (85' Moerstedt), Toure (85' Campbell)

Goals: 0:1 Asllani (18'), 1:1 Glatzel (34'), 1:2 Lemperle (45')

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