Hamburger SV beat 1899 Hoffenheim with late Muheim winner

Hamburger SV came from behind to win 3-2 away at 1899 Hoffenheim on matchday 5 of the Bundesliga, with Miro Muheim scoring the winner in the 90.+4 minute. Terem Moffi had already levelled it in the 83rd minute just after coming off the bench, and Hamburger SV had trailed by a goal at half-time.

Muheim and Moffi change the game

Yussuf Poulsen had given Hamburg the opening goal in the 12th minute, after Nicolas Capaldo hit the post and the rebound fell for him, but Sebastiaan Bornauw then put Hoffenheim ahead with an own goal in first-half stoppage time. Bernardo Fernandes da Silva Junior's yellow-red card in the 65th minute after repeated fouling left Hoffenheim down to 10 men, and Hamburg made the extra man count late.

Muheim did more than finish the move. He also provided an assist in 49 minutes, while his overall match rating of 7.7 sat behind Moffi's 8.16 and Poulsen's 8.03 among Hamburg's top performers. That is the sort of impact a substitute full-back rarely gets to have, and it is the reason Hamburg left Sinsheim with all three points.

An 80th-minute equaliser for Otto Emerson Stange was ruled out after video review before Moffi and Muheim settled it. Merlin Polzin had said before the match, speaking to SPORT1, in translated comments from German: "The HSV will show up in such a way that we have a chance to hold our own. It will be a mix of many things - ideally in such a way that we will be successful in the end."

The mix ended up being exactly that, with Hamburg surviving the own goal, the dismissal and the VAR setback before Muheim finished the comeback in Sinsheim.