Match Preview

Match Preview vs Jahn Regensburg

The season is coming to an end, but the important games don’t stop for HSV. Bavaria calls and Jahn Regensburg away is up next.

Jahn Regensburg will host the HSV on Sunday evening for the 32nd matchday in the 2022/23 2. Bundesliga season. The season is nearing it’s end and with three matches to go, both teams here have everything to play and fight for looking ahead to next season. A commanding victory during the reverse fixture will have HSV listed as favourites going into this game. Although the match ups in the past between have been mixed. HSV are unbeaten in their last seven games with Sunday’s hosts. All to play on Sunday, this should be a good one.

Our Opponents:

A team that hasn’t won in six, sacked their managed during the week and appointed another the very next day. Perhaps the 2022/23 season hasn’t been one to remember for the Regensburg faithful but that doesn’t mean the season if over the Jahn just yet. New head coach, Joe Enochs heads south from Zwickau to Bavaria in a last gasp effort to keep Regensburg’s 2. Liga lives afloat. The side from the Eastern side of Bavaria sit joint bottom on goal difference but are only two points from the Relegation play off which is all but reachable with Arminia Bielefeld occupying this position.

HSV Round Up:

HSV will be without Laszlo Benes due to a yellow card suspension but will gladly welcome back tricky winger Bakery Jatta after he missed the home draw with Paderborn last time out. With all the talk being in the direction of promotion, Walter insists the thought process in the camp is fully focused, only on matters HSV. During the Friday afternoon press conference, Walter said: “We are concentrating fully on ourselves and our tasks, because we cannot influence the results of the other teams.”

Match Facts:

Glatzel equals HSV record

His HSV record is already impressive (73 games, 45 goals), but with his goal against SC Paderborn 07 last Friday (5 May, 2:2) Robert Glatzel has reached a completely new milestone: For the second time in a row, "Bobby" has scored at least 18 goals in a season (2021/22: 22), a feat previously only achieved by Rothosen legend Horst Hrubesch. The current director of youth development scored 27 goals in 1981/82 and 18 the following season. With goal number 19, Glatzel could set an entirely new record. Historic!

Once Fearful Opponents

The first ever competitive match between HSV and SSV Jahn Regensburg ended on a very unpleasant note from the Rothosen' point of view: 0:5 on the scoreboard in September 2018, and the return match in 2018/19 was also lost. Since then, however, the Hamburg team has remained unbeaten in all of the other 7 encounters. And: The 3:1 in the first leg was even the third three-goal win in a row against the Upper Palatinate team. If the Regensburg side can win again on Sunday, they will be the team against which HSV has won the most in the 2nd Bundesliga (6 victories).

Enochs instead of Selimbegovic on the sidelines

After almost 17 years at the club (player, youth coach, co-coach, head coach) Mersad Selimbegovic was released last Tuesday. The team at the bottom of the second-round table (9 points from 14 games) thus reacted to the threat of relegation to the 3rd league (currently 17th place, 2 points behind relegation place 16) and installed an experienced coach in Joe Enochs. The US-American spent half of his sporting life at VfL Osnabrück (1996 to 2017) before taking over as coach at FSV Zwickau (3. Liga) in July 2018. However, the "Swans" released the 51-year-old in February this year, so that he could now take over the mission at the Oberpfälzer side.

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