Sometimes you just need that little bit of luck to make the difference. For HSV professional Miro Muheim this was doubly true against Wehen Wiesbaden (3-0). Actually, the Swiss wasn’t supposed to play at all. And who knows where his shot on goal would have landed after 33 minutes if Sascha Mockenhaupt hadn’t deflected it. But he did. And Muheim had one afternoon to frame.
The fact that he marched out of the stadium with the number nine on his chest was purely a coincidence. Before his interview marathon, Muheim had grabbed a training jacket from the bench and put it on. But the nine and the Swiss, that somehow fit this time, he had to laugh heartily himself.
“It was born out of necessity”
The previously ailing Muheim wasn’t actually supposed to start, as his coach revealed. “I had no intention of using him,” explained Steffen Baumgart. “That was born out of necessity.” Because Noah Katterbach was already out on the left back. So Muheim had to do it, after only two full training sessions.
Luckily for HSV, because the Swiss’s deflected shot led to the victory. “If you don’t shoot, you don’t score goals,” he explained. “And we shot a lot this time. We were lucky with my shot, but I’m not complaining.”
It was Muheim’s fourth goal of the season; he has never scored more in one season before. Due to his development in offensive play, he was already available for the national team at the end of the year. He didn’t receive an invitation this time either, but his hope is alive: “It would have been nice if I had been there, but I can’t make a decision. Of course, I’ll continue to give full steam to the club.”
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So that next time it works with the “Nati”. That would be in June – and would mean being nominated for the European Championship squad.