Our prediction for this Bundesliga 2 match:
Merkur Spiel-Arena will host Friday’s football game between Fortuna Dusseldorf and Hamburger SV. Daniel Thioune’s troops produced their best display of the season before the international break, with the team outclassing Hansa Rostock 5-2, meaning that they are high on confidence ahead of the visit of HSV. Since the attacking partnership of Kownacki and Hennings seemed to be in a perfect working order on Matchday 25, we are positive that the hosts are going to find the net in Friday’s clash. Defender Jorrit Hendrix is banned for the match, while both Elione Fernandes and Andre Hoffmann are sidelined with injuries.
First-choice goalkeeper Florian Kastenmeier should recover in time to face die Rothosen. HSV, on the other hand, aim to climb to automatic promotion berth, but given their anything but good performance in a goalless draw with Holstein Kiel, we are tempted to put our money on draw. To make things even worse for the away team, both Mario Vuskovic and Sebastian Schonlau miss out through suspension.
Highlighted Team (Hamburg):
Hamburg was founded in 1919 out of a fusion of 3 different football clubs from Hamburg. Because of the fusion the Hamburg SV have 4 official club colours which all are in the current home kit of the club. Hamburg SV is playing in the Bundesliga since the national league officialy started. Hamburg SV never played in another league than the Bundesliga. The best results of Hamburg SV were in the eighties where the club won the national league 2 times and the Europa Cup 1 once.
Since 1963 Hamburg is playing their home games in the Volksparstadium. In 1998 Hamburg SV changed to a new venue where the capacity 57 000 is. This is the venue where Hamburg SV is playing right now and is called the Imtech Arena. Because of international legislation the capacity in European games is 51500.
Known former players that played for Hamburg SV are: Van der Vaart, Beckenbauer, Ze Roberto, Guerrero and Felix Magath.