2nd Bundesliga live with HSV, Darmstadt 98 and Hannover 96
At Hamburger SV, catching up is the order of the day. The second division is currently nine points behind a direct promotion place and has to use its home strength. On Saturday (1.30 p.m., heaven) coach Tim Walter’s team is expecting SC Paderborn, they will host again on Tuesday (6.30 p.m.) and will make up for the canceled game against Aue. The Hamburgers have not won the past games and have fallen back to sixth place. “We want to do a few things better,” said coach Walter. “We know that we have to tweak a few things to get more positive energy onto the pitch.”
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Darmstadt 98 has also fallen back a bit in the promotion race. Fourth in the table is now counting on the support of the fans against Holstein Kiel: “I’m incredibly happy to play in front of a full house again,” said coach Torsten Lieberknecht. “We’ve achieved an incredible community here. A symbiosis between fans and team, team and fans. And as a community we can do great things.” In the top battle with leaders FC St. Pauli and big clubs like Schalke 04 and Werder Bremen, Darmstadt is “always seen as a side note,” said Lieberknecht: “That’s also an attraction for us.” In the third game at noon Hannover 96 plays against Jahn Regensburg.
The hosts from Hanover invited 100 war refugees from Ukraine to the Regensburg game. Lower Saxony announced this at their press conference on Thursday. After three second division defeats in a row, the 96ers are under pressure on Saturday because they are only three points ahead of the relegation place. “We have once again committed ourselves to the last seven games and to what is necessary to achieve our goals,” said coach Christoph Dabrowski.