Torgelow - Hamburg have qualified for the second round of the cup. Armin Veh's team beat SV Torgelower Greif 5-1 (1-1) on sunday evening (15.08.10) in front of 8,000 fans. Ruud van Nistelrooy hit a hattrick (34./65./67.), Paolo Guerrero (53.) and David Jarolim also got on the scoresheet. Daniel Pankau was the scorer of the equaliser to make it 1-1. 
 
The season 2010/11 began in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for HSV in Torgelow, against TSV Greif. DFB Cup the task of the day. After selecting his captain (Westermann) and number 1 (Rost) Armin Veh surprised a few people with his starting line-up, bereft of a number of left sided defensive players through injury (Aogo and Jansen) Eljero Elia was unusually selected to fill the void. "Eljero played there in his youth, not a lot of people seem to know this" grinned Veh. 

Half an hour to score
He works as a chef in the cantine of the iron foundry and could have been a hero after just two minutes. Striker Daniel Pankau found himself one on one with keeper Frank Rost after running the ball out of his own half, Rost stayed on his feet long enough to deny him glory however. It is often the case that games really kick-off once the winners are in front, sometime or other the underdogs fall apart, even when they have plenty of chances. This was not the case in Torgelow, in the first 45 minutes at least. Hamburg took the lead in the 34th minute through Ruud van Nistelrooy, but this did not change the fact that Hamburg were finding it hard to break down their opponents. Chances in front of goal were sparse, van Nistelrooy could have doubled the lead just after scoring and Petric had a headed chance. That was about it from Hamburg until the half time whistle, far too little. It was fitting then that Pankau would be crowned hero of the half as he beat Rost with his second chance in the 43rd minute to level it heading into the break.