21.10.2018
Goalless draw against Bochum
HSV fail to score against Bochum and end the weekend in fourth place in the 2. Bundesliga.
51,953 fans watched HSV’s third home game in a row without a win. Although Christian Titz’s team had some good chances in the first half and the final few minutes of the game, they couldn’t find the breakthrough. HSV are now unbeaten in four games, but three of them have been draws.
Chances in the first half…
There were 16 days between HSV’s last game away at Darmstadt and their home game against Bochum today. During the international break, nine players from the club jetted off to play for their countries. Fiete Arp returned with an ankle injury, which meant that Khaled Narey came in to start the game. Other than this, there were no changes to the starting XI. According to Titz, HSV used the long break to work on their tactics and especially on their transition play, which was clear at the start of the game. The team often tried more risky passes to try put Bochum under pressure and try to make them lose the ball. The away side didn’t just focus on defending, which made the game more interesting. However, the first chance didn’t come until around 22 minutes into the game, when Hwang had an effort saved. HSV then started to come into the game a little more and had a couple of good chances through Hunt just before half time. The first narrowly missed the target after a well-worked corner, before his deflected strike just before the break was well saved.
… but ultimately no goals
There were fewer chances in the second half, and the 52,000 fans in the Volksparkstadion didn’t have a lot to get excited about. Kruse’s effort at the beginning of the half was a warning sign for HSV, but that was as dangerous as the away side got. Titz brought on Lasogga and Janjicic for Ito and Hunt for the final half an hour of the game, with Jatta coming on for Hwang ten minutes later. Jatta had the biggest impact on the game of the three substitutes, and looked the most likely to make something happen. His involvement led to a few chances in the closing stages of the contest, with Mangala and Narey both going close. Ultimately, however, HSV couldn’t find a way through and the game ended goalless.
Match facts:
HSV:
Pollersbeck, Sakai, Bates, van Drongelen, Santos, Mangala, Narey, Hunt (63’ Janjicic), Holtby, Ito (63’ Lasogga), Hwang (71’ Jatta).
VfL Bochum:
Riemann, Celozzi, Hoogland, Gyamerah, Danilo, Losilla, Tesche (69’ Maier), Kruse, C.-Y. Lee, Weilandt (79’ Sam), Hinterseer.
Goals: -
Attendance:
51,953
Referee:
Christoph Günsch
Yellow cards:
Narey (25’), Hoogland (54’), Lee (84’)
Red cards:
-
No show from HSV
HSV head coach Markus Gisdol was forced into changing his team ahead of the trip south. Long term injured first choice keeper Adler was still recovering from a broken rib before his understudy Mathenia also got injured and was ruled out of the matchday 31 encounter. Up stepped under-21 stopper Mikel to the fray. Key winger Kostic who scored the only goal of the game between the two sides on matchday 14 was suspended so his place went to Austrian Gregoritsch. Ostrzolek got the nod at left back ahead of Douglas Santos while Walace replaced Jung in defensive midfield. Gisdol made four changes in all to the side which lost 1-2 at home to relegation certainties Darmstadt last time out. The new-look formation struggled early on. Augsburg created three top scoring opportunities within the opening 20 minutes. New keeper Mikel managed to keep out efforts by Kohr and Schmid and was grateful to be able to watch a Stafylidis free kick fizz narrowly wide of target. On 22 minutes the visitors were in luck again as an Altintop effort struck the left hand post with Mikel beaten. It seemed to the capacity crowd including yet another sold out contingent of travelling HSV faithful that it weould only be a matter of time before the home side would break the deadlock and they did as Altintop rounded off two counter attacks on 28 and 41 minutes to make the halftime score 2-0 to Augsburg. Mickel was powerless on both occasions and was HSV’s best man before the break.
Deserved defeat
Lasogga came on for Gregoritsch and Jung replaced Walace at the start of the second half as Gisdol opted for a two-pronged attack. Later Jatta replaced Ostrzolek. The ploy simply didn’t work as the Rothosen had more of the ball than in the previous half but were completely harmless in front of goal. Augsburg played a much more intelligent game and struck the woodwork again through Baier. That superior intelligence was underlined late on as Augsburg struck twice through Max and substitute Bobadilla (76., 85.). It was game over for HSV who failed to threaten until the 84th minute for Lasogga and Wood to miss chances. It was simply not good enough and the Rothosen remain just one point above the relegation play off spot in the table. Matchday 22 sees Gisdol and Co. host Mainz who are level on points but two places better due to a superior goal difference. Only a win will do as the teams lock horns at the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg next Sunday (07.05.17, 3.30 PM).
Match details:
FC Augsburg:
Hitz - Verhaegh, Gouweleeuw, Hinteregger, Stafylidis - Kohr, D. Baier (88. Callsen-Bracker) - Schmid, Halil Altintop (80. Bobadilla), Max (87. Ji) - Finnbogason
HSV:
Mickel - Diekmeier, K. Papadopoulos, Mavraj, Ostrzolek (63. Jatta) - Sakai, Walace (46. Jung) - Gregoritsch (46. Lasogga), Holtby, Hunt - Wood
Goals:
1:0 Altintop (28.), 2:0 Altintop (41.), 3:0 Max (76.), 4:0 Bobadilla (85.)
Booked:
Baier (48.) / Mavraj (33.), Gregoritsch (44.), Ostrzolek (51.), Holtby (72.)
Referee:
Manuel Gräfe (Berlin)
Att:
30.660 (sold out)
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