2023-04-21 18:29:00
As of: 04/21/2023 9:05 p.m
HSV beat FC St. Pauli 4:3 (1:1) in the 109th Hamburg derby in the 2nd Bundesliga. The duel on the 29th matchday was top-class, exciting to the end – and actually didn’t deserve a loser.
Jonas David (44th), Bakery Jatta (48th), Moritz Heyer (52nd) and Jakov Medic (78th / own goal) shot HSV to victory, with which the last hopes of promotion of the rivals have been buried. Goals from Manolis Saliakas (36′), Elias Saad (71′) and Jackson Irvine (79′) weren’t enough for the St. Paulians in front of 56,400 spectators. Ahead of the game, Irvine said the derby winners would become “kings of the city, if only for this weekend”. In the end, coach Tim Walter’s team took the crown.
Before the derby, around 7,000 HSV fans and 4,000 St. Pauli supporters marched separately to the stadium and were accompanied by the police. “It’s been relatively relaxed so far,” said a police spokesman. More than 1,000 officers were deployed to secure the “high-risk game”. Before the kick-off and even more before the start of the second half, massive amounts of pyrotechnics were ignited. This should have repercussions for both sides.
St. Pauli struggles – also with the referee performance
“It doesn’t help. I found that the better team didn’t win today,” said St. Pauli’s manager Andreas Bornemann. Captain Leart Paqarada also said: “It’s really, really painful today – for us and for our fans. We played a very good away game.”
But Bornemann didn’t leave referee Sven Jablonski and his team in good spirits either: “In such close games, good refereeing is part of it. I had the feeling that the well-known close decisions were not necessarily made in our favour.”
Aftermath threatens: a lot of pyrotechnics ignited
Saliakas finds the gap, David unpacks one
HSV had started with tremendous pressure – and forced the St. Paulians to lose several balls in their own half. However, the hosts made too little of these situations. They didn’t manage much more than a shot by Robert Glatzel (2nd), with which goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj had no problems. And that’s how the guests almost quickly took the lead on the other side: But the first shot by Oladapo Afolayan was deflected (12′), the supposed 1-0 (17′) was called back because of a foul play – lucky for HSV.
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Sonny Kittel had had the best chance for the Walter team a minute earlier. His shot from a tight angle went wide of the far post. And at the latest following this double chance there was real music in it, both teams sought their salvation on the offensive. In the 21st minute, St. Pauli’s Lukas Daschner took the lead on his foot, or more precisely on his knee. The striker was obviously too surprised that the ball had slipped through to him in front of the empty goal. Daniel Heuer Fernandes grabbed it safely.
At 0: 1, however, the HSV keeper did not look good. Saliakas didn’t have a pass in the middle and therefore shot at the short corner, which Heuer Fernandes hadn’t closed (36′). The equalizer shortly before the break was all the more worth seeing: central defender Jonas David took heart from 20 meters and chased the ball into the corner to make it 1-1 (44th).
HSV starts the second half with a double strike, …
A goal a minute before the break and the second three minutes following: Sebastian Schonlau crossed – and nobody felt responsible. Karol Mets let the ball through, which Paqarada had not counted on – Jatta stopped the foot and gave HSV a 2-1 lead. And the hosts quickly followed suit. Glatzel failed because of Vasilj, Moritz Heyer switched the quickest and shot in to make it 3:1 (52nd).
… but St. Pauli shows a strong reaction
The preliminary decision? no way. Coach Fabian Hürzeler managed to get his team’s game going once more with a double substitution (59′). Connor Metcalfe shot just wide of the target just three minutes following coming on. Paqarada (66th) and Saliakas (68th) failed to Heuer Fernandes. With Saad, the second joker, who ran freely towards the keeper following a long pass and kept his nerve (71.), provided the goal. Just three minutes later, Eric Smith, who had just seen his fifth yellow card, almost had to equalize. The defender put his shot wide of the goal from a few meters.
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Fast-paced duel and suspense until the end
Instead of 3:3 it was 4:2 shortly followingwards. Kittel broke through on the right and crossed Ransford-Yeboah Königsdörffer in front of the goal. Medic tried to save, but straddled the ball into his own goal (78′). The St. Paulians were not discouraged by the renewed setback. In direct return, they took a corner – and Irvine headed it into the goal to make it 3-4 (79′).
Now everything seemed to be possible once more, but apparently the guests had run out of air with all the running. It remained exciting until the end, but HSV skillfully kept St. Pauli away from their own goal. So Walter’s team took revenge for the lost first leg and climbed to second place, at least temporarily.
Matchday 29, April 21, 2023, 6:30 p.m
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