Crazy coup at Hamburg
TBV turns match believed to be lost by a fraction of a inch
TBV is nine goals behind HSV in the interim, at the end has to admit defeat after a dramatic final phase with an end score of 31:32 (10:17).
TBV started with Martin Galia in the goal, followed by Jens Bechtloff, Michael Kraus, Martin Strobel, Rolf Hermann, Florian Kehrmann and Sebastian Preiß. Daniel Kubes and Ferenc Ilyés came in the defence for Kraus and Preiß. The first throw of HSV was immediately held by Galia, and on the opposite team, Strobel lost out to the pole of the HSV goal. The first goal of the match was in the 4th minute, when Vori scored a success from the circle for HSV, leaving the match at 0:1. After 4:01 minutes, the first time penalty for Kubes immediately followed suit. He had attacked Hens, then Flohr raised the score for HSV, bringing the match score up to 0:2 in their favour, and after that once again to 0:3 - the opening phase belonged to HSV. In its attack, TBV had nothing to set against the compact and aggressive defence of HSV; the first goal went to Hermann, bringing the score to 1:4 (8.).
When it then stood at 1:6 (12.), any good TBV fan would have been reminded of the earliest match against THW Kiel; nothing seemed to fit, neither in front nor from behind. Volker Mudrow took his time out in the first round; 11:56 minutes had been played by then. Hermann was initially as successful in bringing the score up to 2:6; from the seven metre line, Kraus then allowed 3:6 (14.) to follow. 16:20 minutes had been played when Kubes had to leave the playing field for the second time; HSV lost no time and immediately upped the score to 3:8 (17.). Following that goal, Mudrow put Carsten Lichtlein in the goal to replace Galia, who had been without luck except for that first throw; Strobel scored a short-handed goal 4:8 (18.). TBV did not want to give in without a fight. But Marcin Lijewski was immediately successful on behalf of the hosts, bringing the match to the score of 4:9.
In the 20th minute, Holger Glandorf was deployed for the first time, Kraus moved from the left rear to the centre, Ilyés came into the match to replace Strobel. Despite time penalty problems Kubes remained restrained in the defence in the centre back and while Ilyés scored in the 22nd minute to bring the match to 6:10, Lazkovic immediately countered. Until that point in time, HSV was clearly the team with the upper hand in the match. In the interim, Svavarsson had replaced Preiß, but nevertheless nothing changed in the overall constellation; Lindberg scored from the line to bring the score to 6:12 (24.).
The defence, still so much on top of things when playing against Kiel, simply couldn't get its act together; the HSV backs kept being able to throw, unobstructed. In the 27th minute, Glandorf was successful, leaving the score at 9:14, and it appeared to be anything other than a win for the guests. Even short-handed, Duvnjak was able to soar without hindrance, the 9:15 left the hunt to catch up nipped in the bud. The players went to their dressing rooms at the 10:17; TBV had no chance in these first 30 minutes.
In the second half period, Stobel started off in the centre again, Kraus in the left rear, Glandorf in the right rear, Schmetz came in for Kehrmann on the right wing, Kehrmann, in turn, had been moved forward, covering the left HSV attack position and changing to the circle during attack. The first four goals also went to TBV; the 34th minute, the score was only still 14:17. However, the three goals by Duvnjak turned out to be the answer, and less than two minutes later HSV was ahead again at 14:20. And from one moment to the next, nothing seemed to go right anymore for the TBV defence. The 15:22 (39.) scored by Duvnjak, who was completely unhindered in his throws, was symbolic.
When the score was 16:24 (42.), the difference for the first time was as great as 8 goals; TBV had no method against HSV that evening. In the middle of the second half period, Hermann replaced Glandorf once again in the right rear, then scored immediately to bring the match to 19:27 (49.). But even short-handed, HSV was able to counter the move; TBV was not in a position to seriously catch up on the deficit. Meanwhile, TBV was happily joining into the attack, but every HSV throw seemed to be a hit, such that the deficit remained.
Even so, Lemgo kept fighting, unimpressed by what had happened; Kehrmann used a fast counterattack to score the 24:29 (55.); TBV seemed to be able to arrive at a bearable result after all, but immediately it fell to 24:30. Three successive goals brought the score to 27:30 (57.), leading to the question of why this consequence had not been able to be identified some minutes earlier. When Hermann scored at 28:30, as late in the match as two minutes just before the end, one could still think that an upset might be within reach but ... Vori made a hit for the decisive move in favour of the Hamburg team. At least this was what one thought .
For then, as though out of nowhere, Ilyés scored for 30:31; Lichtlein, among others, defended a seven metre against Lindberg, and was able to hold the ball to follow, and Bechtlhoff turned up the heat for a nearly unfathomable draw. The entire match had been turned upside down, but nobody stood in the way of a very fast Krzysztof Lijewski who came storming forward from the centre and who, in the end, marked the very lucky but well-deserved winning throw for HSV.
However, there was plenty of confusion surrounding the final goal. Heard by not only the TBV players and the officials was a clearly audible whistle that did not originate from the crowd. While some TBV players waited for a new throw-in, Lijewski had originally scored the goal; thereafter, there was a discussion or two, but even the match supervisors wanted didn't want to know anything about the whistle and allowed the goal to stand. "There are two things that leave a bad taste inside my mouth. First of all, Igor Vori should have had a time penalty for his foul on Kehrmann when the latter played his pass to Bechtloff. And such an audible whistle could be heard that I find it flabberghasting how something like that could have simply been ignored", said an annoyed Volker Zerbe, the manager of TBV, after the match.