Right at the start of the season, there will be a duel between the two promotion favorites, 1. FC Köln and Hamburger SV. The guests from HSV leave the field as winners.
Hamburg’s Ransford Königsdörffer scores the two goals to make it 1-0 and 2-0 for HSV. – dpa
the essentials in brief
- Hamburg wins 2-1 in Cologne at the start of the 2nd Bundesliga.
- The home team’s goal comes late.
- Before that, HSV took the lead after a mistake by Cologne.
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HSV wins the top match at the start of the 2nd Bundesliga against 1. FC Cologne. HSV wins the duel between the two promotion favorites 2:1 in front of 50,000 spectators in Cologne.
Ransford-Yeboah Königsdörffer scored both goals for HSV in the first half. For his first goal, he benefited mainly from a mistake by Cologne goalkeeper Jonas Urbig.
Cologne scored again shortly before the end in the 78th minute through Linton Maina. But it was not enough to equalize.
Who will be promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga?
For Hamburg coach Steffen Baumgart, it is a successful return to his old stomping ground. He coached the FC from 2021 to 2023. Gerhard Struber, on the other hand, starts his first season as Cologne coach with the burden of a defeat.
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