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Success returns with Horst Hrubesch - too late?
Photo: Daniel Reinhardt / dpa
The promotion fight in the 2nd Bundesliga remains exciting.
Both Hamburger SV and Holstein Kiel won their home games on Monday.
HSV succeeded in turning the trend under its new coach Horst Hrubesch.
Nevertheless, the club must hope that the competition will fail in the last two matchdays.
Hamburger SV has kept its minimal chance of promotion through a clear home win.
After five games without a win, the team won the debut of three-week coach Horst Hrubesch on Monday evening deserved 5: 2 (3: 1) against 1. FC Nürnberg and moved up to fourth place in the table with 55 points and is now three points behind competitor Greuther Fürth.
HSV took the lead through an own goal by Asger Sörensen (30th minute), the other goals were scored by Bakery Jatta (36th), double goal scorer Simon Terodde (45th + 2 / 80th / penalty kick) and Sonny Kittel (76th).
Erik Shuranov scored 1: 2 (41st) and Linus Rosenlöcher (89th) for the club.
The HSV had separated from coach Daniel Thioune a week ago - Hrubesch took over.
For the guests it was the first defeat since March 7th - after that the club started a series with three wins and four draws.
Holstein Kiel made the hoped-for jump to second place.
In the first of two catch-up games coming up this week, the Kiel team laboriously won 1-0 (1-0) against Hannover 96 on Monday evening and pushed the previous second Greuther Fürth (58) to the relegation rank with 59 points.
Fin Bartels (44th minute) scored the goal of the sixth home win in a row for Holstein, which Jahn Regensburg welcomes in the Holstein Stadium on Thursday afternoon.
Three days after the 4-0 win over FC St. Pauli, the home side found it surprisingly difficult in the 50th championship duel with Lower Saxony.
The guests, who sometimes acted with a five-man defensive chain, consistently disrupted the build-up game and thus prevented the dreaded Kiel combination football.
So it took until shortly before half-time before the completely free-standing Bartels got his ninth goal of the season after Fabian Reese's measured cross.
Even after the change, the Kielers, to whom the opening goal did not give a tailwind, could not trump as last.
Hanover even took the initiative, but was still barely able to earn clear opportunities for a bullet.
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