Mohamed Zidan's HSV lost their away to Frankfurt by two goals to one. Despite the good start from HSV, the home side took the lead after a mistake from Atouba in the 7th minute. Mohamed Zidan and his teammates couldn't reply in the first half and the Mohamed Zidan was taken off later in the 2nd half. In the 83rd minute, Van der Vaart equalized from a penalty kick but Frankfurt scored their late winner in the 89th minute to end the game in a 2-1 win.

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HSV and especially Atouba simply couldn't settle down. The Cameroon defender let Streit breeze past him and force a timely save by Rost . then moments later, the duo clashed to the left of the HSV penalty area.


Streit seemed to have hold of Atouba in the groin area, and Atuba appeared to knock his opponent to the ground as he lashed out with his elbow. The match referee Gräfe was unsighted so there was no card shown. Three minutes later, a de Jong header forced home keeper Pröll into a stunning reflex save. At the other end, Kompany cleared a Weissenberger lob off the line withRost well beaten.


. All in all it was a hectic opening half hour!

The match remained even from both sides after the goal. Zidan didn't get much support from his teammates as usual and had to rely on himself in getting forward.
The Egyptian said on Thursday that he was not 100% fit after his injury,

In the 2nd half, things didn't change much and Stevens made some changes in his selection to increase the attacking options. Stevens took Zidan off in the 60th minute and Choupo-Moting came on to replace him, he also introduced Guerrero later on in the 2nd half.


In the 82nd min. The match referee awarded HSV a disputed penalty kick after a shot from Van der Vaart at goal. The HSV captain converted the penalty as he shot it low to strike the hand of the goalkeeper and go in to make the score 1-1.


A few minutes later, the man of the match Meier added his second goal in the game from a superb volley shot from the edge of the box after a poor clearenace from the HSV defense. The goal was the winning goal for Frankfurt as it came just a couple of minutes before the final whistle.







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