I just polled SB Nation Soccer central, and we’re all pretty sure that Hamburg winning a football match is illegal in most countries. Well HSV will bow down to the fascist regime that controls the destiny of mankind no longer! They will fight, and they will win. Sometimes, anyway.
Hamburg SV Vs. VfB Stuttgart: Hamburg Earn First Win Of Season
This was one of those times. Hosting relatively high-flying Stuttgart immediately firing manager Michael Oenning meant that nobody gave Hamburg much of a chance, and for the first half it looked as though they were right to do so. The visitors earned a goal in the eighteenth minute after Martin Hamik latched onto a spilled shot - not Jaroslav Drobny’s first error of the evening, nor the last - and continued to pound Hamburg’s goal, hitting the post and missing an open net. Hamburg’s defence looked woeful, their midfield couldn’t hold the ball, and nobody even noticed their strikers because they never had possession for long enough.
And then, everything changed. Like a trapped animal backed into a corner, Hamburg had no other option but to attack, and attack (with manic fury) they did, with on-loan centre back Jeffrey Bruma heading home brilliantly from a corner with fifty one minutes and the team never looking back. Gokhan Tore had two good chances which he spurned, but Robert Tesche made no such mistake with a beautifully executed volley on the turn which flashed past a stunned Sven Ulreich and into the back of the net.
I don’t think anyone in the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion could quite believe it. At 2-1 Hamburg were on course to quadruple their points tally for the season in their sixth match, and all they had to do was hold out against the Stuttgart storm. It never actually materialised, however - it was Hamburg who were on the attack for most of the rest of the match, and after ninety minutes plus two for stoppages, they had their first win of the season.
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