HSV – Wolfsburg Rant Box
By: Chris |
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Match time is tonight is 1930 local time at the HSH Nordbank Arena in Hamburg (new pitch and all!).
Great preview here from the Bundesliga web site. This story has Rozehnal in for Boateng at center back and Boateng in for Demel at right back. I think Demel plays despite the fact he just got back to Hamburg yesterday (Thursday). Rozehnal is, ahem, less effective than either Boateng or Demel, and it’s not as though Demel has been injured or away on holiday–dude has been playing football for the past 3 weeks.
LET’S GET IT ON!
HSV – Wolfsburg Preview
By: Chris | 1 Comment
News and notes ahead of tonight’s match with Die Wolf . . .
Dortmund letdown, Ruud presented
By: Chris | 2 Comments
Die Rothosen fell back to fifth in the Bundesliga table with a disappointing (bad choice of words–what defeat is not disappointing?) defeat to Dortmund, who, to their credit, did a bang up job stifling the HSV attack.
Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!
By: Chris | 10 Comments
I am not sure how I missed this one while gathering news ahead of the Dortmund match Saturday, but it sounds as though HSV have solved their striker problem with some flair. Who is this mystery man? The answer is after the jump.
Category: Bundesliga, English Premier League, Euro 2008, Player News, Real Madrid, Team News, Transfer RumorsHSV-Freiburg Rantbox
By: Chris | 5 Comments
With another tip of the cap to Jack at the Chelsea Offside, here’s a rantbox to get the Ruckrunde started. As I wrote in the last post, make mine 2:1 HSV.
Category: Team NewsWait, what’s this?
By: Chris | 3 Comments
By God, it’s a post to the Hamburg Offside. And a big shout to you, loyal readers, for checking back, since we’ve been, ahem, otherwise occupied and haven’t posted in a while.
And with that out of the way, let’s get caught up on some of the news . . .
Int. Week/Henry incident
By: g? | 2 Comments
“Not the victory but the action; Not the goal but the game; In the deed the glory.”
Those words are written in Memorial Stadium, Lincoln Nebraska.
Maybe if he does come to MLS, he’ll have time to stop by and think about it. I wouldn’t want a part of a trophy earned thanks to cheating, PERIOD. I hate it when the Rothosen do it, and I hate it when the other teams do. When Mahdavikia dove against Dortmund back in 07, I was ashamed that our turnaround started with such a despicable move. Still am. It feels less incredible, knowing that we may never have made the UI cup if he hadn’t done that. So please, don’t comment about double standards. (Or Spam, for that matter…)
Now, on to more current HSV news,
Collo resigned until 2011. Which is good, as I’ve always liked him.
Zé is still out, but Petric is finally back to training.
And we play Bochum on sunday, which I have decided is a must-win, at least for the Herbstmeisterschaft.
That’s about it.
Category: Team NewsRIP Robert Enke
By: g? | 1 Comment
Rest in Peace with Lara.
Honored to have watched our HSV play yours over the last few seasons.
Category: Team NewsHamburg-Gladbach Living DEAD blog!
By: g? | 14 Comments
Since I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to use that title, I’ll be giving a vague commentary while I search for a live stream. So it’s technically accurate.
30′ We’re leading 1-0 on a Trochowski strike. That makes us top of the table.
35-39′ Elia and Berg almost score, respectively.
39′ AHH! Equalizer-Gladbach. Though I couldn’t see who it was. Edit-Marco Reus was the one, who got in on a breakaway and lobbed over Rost
HZ- Halftime in the HH. 1-1, thanks to Reus’ equalizer for the fortunate Fohlen.
47′ TORRRRRRRR FÜR HAMBURG!!!! ZÉ on the direct free in the top right corner! What an amazing buy he turned out to be… 2-1 Hamburg lead again, only 2 minutes into the 2nd half.
50′ Boateng looks hurt. Rozehnal is still suspended from last week. We’ll see if he can continue… BAD sign
61′ Good chance for Gladbach-Arango header over the top.
64′ Labbadia continuing to leave Jerome on the field, even as he grimaces in pain. Don’t let another player get a long term injury…
72′ Good shot from Jarolim is stopped by the keeper.
75′ EQUALIZER GLADBACH. This after a clear PK was denied after a tackle on Pitroipa
77′ BOATENG! WTF MAN! ALMOST GAVE AWAY THE GAME! BAAAAD backpass almost killed us there.
79′ We NEED all 3 points today. Esp. with all the ties we’ve had recently.
82′ Friend takes the lead for Gladbach. Oh dear.
My title seems oddly fitting now…
spielaus. First loss in the BL this season. To GLADBACH. That hurts. Especially having seen the missed PK call for us that could’ve made it 3-1.
Damn.
Category: Team NewsThree points in Glasgow!
By: g? | 6 Comments
Spirits remain high in the Hamburg locker room, as the decimated Macht v. d. Elbe managed to pull out 3 points from a hard fought game at Celtic Park.
REWIND!
After getting the news that Castelen may be out for his career, which would be horrible news for anyone, and especially for someone who has always seemed to have a positive outlook on his situation, and that Jerome is hurt, one could be forgiven for expecting our Hanseaten to play for the draw, kind of like how Celtic’s bitter rivals made the final a few years ago. But that was not to be the case, as the order of the day was some of the better possession football I’ve seen since we beat Man City. Zé set up Marcus Berg, who slotted it home for the 0-1, which held up thanks to some solid D, and some good (And bad) luck. Celtic plunge to bottom of the table, and HSV are punktgleich with Hapoel on top of group C, after Hapoel hung Rapid Wien out to dry.
Rost saved us more than once, our Dauerbrenner Mathijsen played to his usual standards, Rozehnal didn’t seem to make any glaring errors that I remember, Demel made a few mistakes but held his own. Aogo played a decent game, although I was bothered with his time-wasting late in the game.
Jaro was scrappy and fought for every ball (Surprise, surprise), Zé is still the steal of the year, Jansen was solid in his return from injury, and Elia started weak but got better and better until the end of the game.
Berg played great, and hopefully will carry this scoring touch into the bundesliga finally. Pitroipa is rightfully a HSV Offside fave, as his speed troubled Celtic all night, and set up a number of chances.
All in all, not a bad game from a team thats been decimated by injuries, especially against a desperate Celtic. I’d feel bad, but they’d have to reconsider their friendships first…
Final note: As the team went to thank the 2500 travelling fans, they were blocked by security, and apparently will be reported to UEFA. I call shenanigans to that, and hope that UEFA throws the case out.
Schwarz-weiß-blaue Grüße!
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