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For HSV trainer Daniel Thioune it will be a reunion on Monday evening (8.30 p.m. / Sky and in the live ticker on WELT.de) with old friends, acquaintances and former companions;

from 2017 to 2020 Thioune trained the VFL Osnabrück.

Many earlier companions praise his development.

The long-time sports director of the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”, Harald Pistorius, names two characteristics that characterize the coach: “He has a lot of empathy, can not only set emotions free, but also transfer this spirit to the players.” He also has a classic character Autodidact and late starter the coaching job "intellectually penetrated".

Thioune first established himself as a VfL youth coach between 2014 and 2017 and used a football break to study.

"I'm happy to see everyone again," said Thioune, who moved from Osnabrück to the Elbe last summer.

But he added dryly: “I won't be really happy until we get three points.” The old friendships have a break for the 90 minutes of the game.

Thioune will do everything possible to ensure that HSV will defend its championship lead against Lower Saxony.

What Thioune does better than his predecessors

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The son of a Senegalese and a German was born in the district of Osnabrück and was also a player at VfL for 16 years.

As a brawny attacker, he scored 65 goals in 170 competitive games.

Thioune, who was promoted to the second division with the Osnabrück team in 2019 and held the class a year later, assured the former club and his current coach Marco Grote that he was generally giving the former club all the best.

"If you leave something behind, you don't want what you've built to collapse again."

The coach Daniel Thioune now has the nominally strongest squad in the Bundesliga lower house at HSV.

The HSV is on points in the target.

After four wins in a row, the last time there was a 1-1 draw at 1. FC Nürnberg.

What Thioune has managed better than his predecessors Dieter Hecking and Hannes Wolf: The team reacts tactically more variably to the respective opponent.

In addition to dominance of the game, this can mean working against the ball without frills and just standing well.

HSV sports director Michael Mutzel praised HSV sports director Michael Mutzel against Nuremberg as well, "they were able to stand in a well-sorted and orderly manner without neglecting the offensive."

"It is definitely a development that we have become more stable in these areas."

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HSV's life insurance remains striker Simon Terodde, who was also exactly right with the Franks and scored the 1-1.

The 32-year-old attacker has already scored 16 hits after 15 point games.

On the defensive, Thioune had to improvise a lot in recent weeks due to various failures, which largely succeeded due to good alternatives.

Moritz Heyer in particular, who only joined HSV in September, turned out to be a prudent all-rounder.

Defender Jan Gyamerah, injured with a torn ligament for several weeks, should also start running again soon.

Central defender Rick van Drongelen, who has been out for a long time due to a torn cruciate ligament, is already training with the team again.

Meanwhile, big trouble can be heard from the club's management.

Even the bad word of the "attempted coup" against the President and Chairman of the Supervisory Board Marcell Jansen is making the rounds.

According to unanimous media reports in the presidium of HSV eV, there should be a rift between Jansen and his vice-president Thomas Schulz and treasurer Moritz Schaefer.

It's a complex web of intrigue and jealousy.

Seen in this way, everything is like so often at the quarreling HSV - but at least this time the team works better on the pitch.

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Source: WELT AM SONNTAG