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11.10.2018
HSV beat Aarhus GF 3-2 in friendly
HSV beat Danish Superliga team Aarhus GF 3-2. Aaron Hunt, Bakery Jatta and Khaled Narey all got on the scoresheet for Die Rothosen.
HSV played against Danish Superliga team Aarhus GF on Thursday afternoon in a friendly and won 3-2. Die Rothosen in the first half went behind to the Danes and in the second half, the away side scored again to make it 0-2, shocking the home team. However, HSV’s response was formidable as Aaron Hunt, Bakery Jatta and Khaled Narey all scored to ensure a victory over the Danish team.
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Goalscoring instinct
Die Rothosen began the game by dominating possession and applying pressure on the opponents from the front. The visitors were compact in defence but the first chance of the game fell to Tatsuya Ito but the Japanese winger was unable to convert. Although HSV were dominating the possession, it was the away side that took the lead as Aarhus GF nicked the ball off HSV, countered well and Ryan Mmaae scored after good work down the left hand side from Tobias Sana. Only a few minutes later the visitors had the chance to go 2-0 up but HSV keeper Julian Pollersbeck saved well to keep the ball out of his net.
In the second half, Casper Hojer made it 2-0 to the visitors two minutes after the restart. However, this second goal only woke up the HSV team as they soon replied with a volley from captain Aaron Hunt, Douglas Santos with the assist. Only six minutes later, Ito was fouled inside the penalty area and Bakery Jatta converted from the spot to make it 2-2. The two goals were deserved as HSV were playing much better football. In the last minute of the game the German Togolese striker Narey completed the turnaround as he finished well after a very good ball by Gotoku Sakai. “We played quite well early on but we could not take advantage of our dominance. It is not good that we conceded two goals,” said Titz after the game. “In the second half we were able to make space with our pace. We played well today and I can see that we have developed as a team in recent months.”
Match stats:
HSV First half lineup:
Pollersbeck - Narey, Lacroix, Janjicic, Santos - Steinmann - Ferati, Holtby, Hunt, Ito - Lasogga
HSV Second half lineup:
Mickel - Sakai, Ambrosius, Janjicic, Santos - Steinmann - Jatta, Holtby, Hunt (84. Kwarteng), Ito (84. Borges) - Narey
Goals:
0-1 Mmaae (27’), 0-2 Hojer (47’), 1-2 Hunt (58’), 2-2 Jatta (54’, penalty), 3-2 Narey (89’)
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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