Hamburger SV gambled away promotion to the German Bundesliga. After a 1-0 win in the first leg on Monday evening, Hamburg lost 2-0 (1-0) in the relegation second leg against Hertha BSC Berlin. With coach Felix Magath, of all people, an HSV legend saved the Berliners, who have been represented in the upper house without interruption since 2013. HSV, on the other hand, has to prepare for a fifth year in the 2nd Bundesliga.
The decisive goals were scored by Dedryck Boyata (4th) and Marvin Plattenhardt (63rd) from standard situations. Boyata headed in after a Plattenhardt corner. After a change of sides, Hertha’s lord of the dead balls was successful with a direct free kick from an acute angle, which HSV keeper Daniel Heuer Fernandes misjudged.
Hertha presented themselves compared to the matte performance in the first leg, which HSV could have won more, as if they had been replaced and avoided the seventh relegation in the club’s history. Even a late yellow-red card against Lucas Tousart didn’t change anything (96′). Magath took over the Berliners in March. The 68-year-old became a party crasher for his ex-club HSV, with which he had already celebrated great success as a player under Ernst Happel.
Most of the 55,000 fans left Hamburg’s Volkspark Stadium bitterly disappointed. After five league wins in a row at the end of the season and winning the relegation first leg, the final step towards promotion again failed. After the Bundesliga founding member was relegated for the first time in 2018, HSV finished fourth three times in league two. This year it was enough to be relegated as third for the first time. However, the North Germans did not make it to the finish again.
In the relegation between the first and second division teams in Germany, the top-class club once again had the upper hand. In 14 duels since 2009, only three second division teams have prevailed: Nuremberg (2009), Fortuna Düsseldorf (2012) and Union Berlin (2019).
Source: Nachrichten
