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HSV vs Man City (1-0)

Date: 27-7-2008
Wrote by: EP's webmaster

Mohamed Zidan and HSV played their first serious preseason friendly tonight as they faced Manchester City. Zidan started on bench and came on in the 69th minute. The game ended in a 1-0 win for Hamburg who scored in the 15th minute through striker Pitroipa who faced the keeper and scored.

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Mohamed Zidan started the match on bench while Martin Jol decided to start with Pitroipa and Olic. Later in the 2nd half, both strikers left the field to make way for Zidan and Guerrero.

The first half ended in a 1-0 lead for Hamburg as a through pass was made to Pitroipa who took it past his mark, faced the goalkeeper and scored to give HSV the lead.

In the 69th minute, Zidan came on and also Guerero. On the other hand, Van der Vaart, Olic and Guerrero were replaced. Zidan looked OK but he had no efforts on goal.

It should be noted that HSV's upcoming friendly will be against Real Madrid in Emirates cup on the 2nd of August.

Hamburger SV: Rost, Boateng, Reinhardt, Mathijsen (81.Kompany), Atouba - de Jong (77.Demel), Jarolim, Trochowski (57.Ben-Hatira), van der Vaart (46.Aogo) - Olic (67.Guerrero), Pitroipa (69.Zidan)

Manchester City: Hart (46.Schmeichel) - Corluka (71.Onuoha), Richards, Dunne, Ball - Fernandes (77.Hamann), Ireland (66.Etuhu) - Petrov, Elano, Vassel (81.Sturridge), Caicedo (66.Evans)


Aside from this news, the team star Van der Vaart will likely move to Real Madrid this summer. This has been confirmed by the club who set a 13m EUROs price tag for the prolific play maker. Real Madrid will likely up their bid to 13m and get the Dutch star.

It should be noted that Van der Vaart's move away from Hamburg will give Zidan the chance to feature more in games as he can both play as a striker or a play maker.