HSV 2 - 0 Wolfsburg
HSV Coach Trainer Klaus Toppmöller made only one change from the side which drew 1-1 at home to Bochum last time out. Takahara came into the first team for Meier, with Sergej Barbarez reverting to his favoured role of attacking midfield. HSV started the more aggressive of the two teams and got on top early on. The early pressure produced half chances for both Mahdavikia and Beinlich.
Toothless Wolves...
It took 15 minutes for the visitors to make their mark on the game. Franz and Petrov wasted a couple of half chances. On 18 minutes, Mahdavikia laid the ball off for Barbarez just outside the penalty box. The Bosnian international sent his marker the wrong way before placing a fine shot into the bottom left hand corner of the net to give HSV a deserved lead. HSV then strangely sat back and waited for Wolfsburg to come at them. The side coached by Jürgen Röber however, didn't seem to know how to deal with its new-found space in the middle of the park. The Argentinean midfielder D’Alessandro was the only Wolfsburg player to take the eye, with occasional flashes of his undoubted brilliance. The visitors remained harmless and so HSV went into the half time break a goal up.
Rahn puts Wolves out of their misery
Shortly after half time, Paule Beinlich missed an easy header on his own in front of goal following good work by Takahara. HSV remained dominant and Wolfsburg had no answer. During the whole of the second half, the visitors didn't have a single goal scoring opportunity. Röber brought on two pairs of fresh legs. In came Hrgovic and Menseguez, out went Franz and D’Alessandro. The new players failed to make any kind of impression on the game, and so it was no surprise that it was HSV who scored next. Two minutes from time Christian Rahn ( who came on in place of Takahara on 67 minutes, just about latched onto a pass to the far post by David Jarolim, to finally put the visitors out of their misery and give HSV three welcome and well-deserved points. This victory sees HSV move up a place in the Bundesliga table.
Bring on Bayern!
HSV are now 8th in the Bundesliga table. Next weekend they travels to the Olympic Stadium in Munich, where mighty Bayern Munich will be waiting. Bayern lost 0-1 away to Bochum today, the side which HSV should have beaten at home last weekend. Should be an interesting one that!
HSV: Wächter - Wicky, Hoogma, Reinhardt, Hollerbach - Mahdavikia, Barbarez, Jarolim, Beinlich - Romeo, Takahara
Wolfsburg: Jentzsch - Franz, Biliskov, Schnoor, Weiser - Sarpei, Karhan, D'Alessandro, Petrov - Klimowicz, Topic
Goals: 1:0 Barbarez (18), 2:0 Rahn (88)
Source: HSV.de
