Pierre-Michel Lasogga, Hamburg's king of the emotions

There are football players, the hold after 90 sweaty minutes in the mouth. Abrasive noise at the prostrate microphones and over collapsed blocks of the inquisitive Reporter, like racehorses at full gallop, just straight. Before a question reaches your deaf ear, they disappeared in the cabin, without comment. The silent running in the race group, is a horror for each Rapporteur. Pierre-Michel Lasogga, the second League-striker, Hamburger SV is not one of them. Also Lasogga can gallop quite well. However, especially on the stadium turf, as he showed after his goal for 1:0 in the city Derby at FC St. Pauli impressive.

in Front of the South stand, where the home fans stand, had to keep Lasogga the head at the right Moment, the Ball flew over the line and the scorer then, on the opposite side. The HSV-Fans extended to him ecstatically joyful their fists. "N'm'then all of the lights, all of the emotions had to get out short," said Lasogga later by his jubilant run, for he had "probably used a little under nine seconds". The words gushed out of him like a pure spring, clear and fresh.

"a' Tick Horny"

anyone who wanted to know – and wanted to –, reported Lasogga about his feelings after the first Derby victory against St. Pauli since the 19th century. April 2002, summarized it this way: "I'd been to Jersey a lot of beautiful days in the HSV, but a Derby victory is doing particularly well, especially after such a long time." Absorbed, he had the atmosphere, Lasogga, the merciless whistle belongs to the opponents' supporters ("It is somehow still a 'Tick hotter than home") and the smoke and the smoke blocks ("a bit of a Pyro").

Pierre-Michel Lasogga, 27, enjoyed to the full. Perhaps it is also because of him still a little of the accusation is attached, to be a better stumble for a real scorer. The way how the soccer workers Lasogga appearance was in the Loew's school-inspired cosmos as frowned upon. It led to astonishing results. Because if it went for the HSV in the important games, rooting him Lasogga is often a way grätschend, dusting, emotion charged.

in 2014, kept be hit Hamburg in the play-off against Fürth before the descent into League two In the season 2016/17 he met on the penultimate round, a stoppage-time 1:1 at Schalke. Only in this way, the HSV was able to at 34. Round against Wolfsburg celebrate the direct Class whereabouts.

The most important rescuers but the Hamburger gave up after that. They gave Lasogga after a total of 96 League games in which he scored 24 goals, Leeds United and descended without him consistently. For the Mission again rise to tense him again in front of the rickety carts, so far, successfully. Twelve times Lasogga met in the course of the season for HSV, scoring three goals, he hung up. Eight times, there were gates that led to the leadership or to compensate for.

arrived at the Top. The Derby hero is celebrating his goal to 0:3.Photo: Christian Charisius/dpa

If anything, the playful, often limited-edition HSV, is the hope Lasogga. That was also against St. Pauli. The guests played good for 30 minutes but is also ineffective. Then Lasogga forced the free-kick, Hunt hit the crossbar and the infraction jumped after the Ball in such a way hungry like a lion to a limping Zebra.

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His instinct Lasogga followed in the goal for 3:0, when he delivered a low cross from six metres flat. The Rest was a rhetorical fireworks of a football proletarian, as he is no longer so often to be found. Of the "eggs in his pants" and various "guys" told Lasogga later, and that he with the club to identify. "I always try my opponent to devour. Today, it worked quite well,“ said Hamburg's new king. She said, and stood joyfully in front of the next camera.