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Even after three games without a win, they don't want to know anything about a first mini-crisis at Hamburger SV.

After all, you are still the leader of the table, those responsible brush aside the suspicion of the first small tensions.

Nevertheless, after two draws and the painful 3-1 home defeat against VfL Bochum last Sunday, the curve was down.

Indeed, it speaks for the current self-confidence in the Volkspark that this energy is turned forward instead of acting in a self-destructive manner.

“It is important that we do it regardless of victory and defeat or outside influences.

We should pay attention to what we can influence ourselves, ”said HSV coach Daniel Thioune at the press conference before the away game at 1. FC Heidenheim on Saturday (1.30pm / Sky and in the live ticker on WELT.de).

Of course he noticed that the criticism had become a little louder, added the 48-year-old coach.

"I face this with the team."

Thioune: "I have a broad cross"

Even if Thioune was referring to the Bochum game again, where his team played a desolate performance in all respects, he put temporary setbacks into perspective: “I would like to put it into a concept overall.” The accounts are “after 34 game days and then count the table".

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Nevertheless, Thioune will also know that HSV has a kind of trauma for precisely that reason.

In the two previous years, after some sovereign phases of the season, where the red trousers also greeted from the top of the table, after slumps in the end, it was only fourth in each case.

"It is up to us that we are even more diligent, greedy and passionate," in order to put the whole thing in a positive light again, said the meticulous pragmatist credibly.

"I have a wide cross, I really like to stand in the wind, even in the bad weather in Hamburg."

Thioune came to the Elbe from league rivals VfL Osnabrück in the summer.

Above all, he should bring calm and continuity into a squad that was in parts previously inhomogeneously composed.

After all, the sporting leadership had gone in advance through the obligations of the two pillars Simon Terodde in the storm center and goalkeeper Sven Ulreich in the summer.

There is an axis with captain Tim Leibold as left-back and defensive all-purpose weapon Moritz Heyer, who also switched from Thioune's old employer to HSV at the beginning of the season and who was the only HSV professional to play all the point games this season.

Nevertheless, Thioune surprised again and again with various tactical formations.

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The rest of the staff was implemented in these castling changes, depending on whether Thioune ran up with a chain of five or four, played more presses than possession, tried to succeed with two points or ran up against a nominally tight offensive midfield.

Five wins in the first five games made Thiounes concept unassailable, now the facade is crumbling a little.

Former HSV shooting stars are left out

"I don't want to be the greatest trickster, it's not an end in itself," Thioune emphasized the constant changes in the line-up, which he also explained with bans, injuries and additional commitments.

After all, he should also “use the breadth of the squad”.

Nevertheless, he says, he needs “an axis that you can lean on,” and there are many players in between.

"If you look at the results of the first few weeks, there is continuity," added Thioune, "except for the last game, we were very dominant in possession of the ball, had a very high pass rate and very good duel behavior.

You have "lost a game out of eight", if it goes on like this, you are "on the right track".

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Nevertheless, the first cracks were found in the width of the frame.

Former shooting stars like Gideon Jung and Joshua Vagnoman are currently left out, technicians like Sammy Kittel and David Kinsombi who were thought of as regular players did not do justice to their role as leading players and rather hit the bench, and attackers Bobby Wood or Lukas Hinterseer fall behind Simon Terodde which is already at nine goals this season.

Thioune said of Goalgetter Terodde: "First and foremost, he pays back with goals and that's why he's seeded." But the coach is also happy about his offensive all-purpose weapon Manuel Wintzheimer.

"He has justified his nominal line-up every time." Both would currently "block the places in a positive way".

"The battle for places is on"

Thioune said of the rest of the squad - who against Heidenheim may have to do without his midfield motor Jeremy Dudziak, who was hit on the ankle against Bochum - also with a view to the bad game against VfL: “The battle for places is on. “It is“ week after week a challenge to commit to eleven players ”, now he has to see which team“ fits the Heidenheim construct ”best.

After a clear and unambiguous internal team speech last Monday, the moping was not blown, Thioune assured.

He now feels that his players are “focused again, have the greed and passion that it takes to play a better role in this league again”.

Heidenheim, who was third in relegation rank before HSV last year, doesn't give Thioune any sleepless nights, even if he appreciates the work of his colleague Frank Schmidt, who has been coaching the Baden-Württemberg team for 13 years.

“We stay within our sphere of influence,” he said.

The FCH would not be able to exert so much influence "that we will not try to get our game plan through."

Thioune always has the backing of sports director Jonas Boldt.

He also looks more at the entire development than at individual games and said: “It's about development in different areas.

You shouldn't get nervous if you lose a game. "

Hamburger SV and its Marketing Director Henning Bindzus split up.

According to the second division soccer team, the 37-year-old is leaving the club on December 31.

The farewell was amicable, it said.