Hamburg Baumgart angry with HSV professionals
“Just implement what was discussed”
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Two defeats, one win – Steffen Baumgart is still having a hard time on the sidelines of HSV games
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After the 0:2 in Düsseldorf, HSV coach Baumgart announced clearer communication. He sees his new team as still far removed from his footballing ideas. The ex-Cologne player had already approached his new team the previous week.
Steffen Baumgart still sees a lot of work ahead of him as the new HSV coach. After Hamburger SV’s second defeat in a row under his leadership, Baumgart announced more direct communication in dealing with his players. “I have to be more clear,” said Baumgart on Sky after the second division soccer team’s 0:2 (0:1) defeat at Fortuna Düsseldorf on Friday evening.
“I think I need to make it clear that there is a direction. And I haven’t made that clear enough from my point of view. That’s why we lost the last two games. So it’s my responsibility – and I accept it,” Baumgart continued.
The 52-year-old took over the third-place team in the second division at the end of February and has only won one game in three games since then. “We are far away from how we want to play. There is a lot that we have to change,” said the former coach of 1. FC Köln. In Düsseldorf, a series of 30 competitive games broke, each with at least one goal. This time it couldn’t happen because none of HSV’s shots hit Düsseldorf’s goal.
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Baumgart particularly criticized the fact that his players had not adhered to his instructions: “Just implement what had been clearly discussed beforehand.” After the game and the defeat against Osnabrück the previous week, Baumgart had already attested to mentality problems with his players – unlike with With his predecessor Tim Walter, the relationship between coach and team is likely to be tense. In the comments of the fan forums, the majority of fans are already mourning Walter.
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After the deserved defeat against their direct competitor, HSV is at risk of falling from relegation place at the weekend. For five years, Hamburg has been trying to get back into the Bundesliga with ever-increasing investments. However, Baumgart didn’t want to hear about too much pressure to finally get promoted: “What we’re playing at the moment has nothing to do with the fact that we want to get promoted.”
On the next match day (Sunday, 1 p.m.) the Hamburg team will face SV Wehen Wiesbaden, a newly promoted team – these were not the favorite opponents of the promotion aspirants recently.