Tea Light in the Dark Universe: Bobby Wood at Hamburg

The current goalkeeper, Adler, would be another very strong contender, and not just for club MVP; maybe even for die Mannschaft as well. The Greek CB that's on loan (surely they'll try to sign him in the summer) has been immense as well.

Almost as many as Bayern and about the same as Hoffenheim. If the season had started in January, they'd be a lock for the third CL place.

 

A strong close to the summer might lead to an effective summer window...who knows, Bobby might be in the best place for his development. He's already established as the guy with a team that might be on the rise.

 

with the likes of Neuer around, it must be like Casillas with Spain. When you had world class keepers like Reina and Valdes being lucky to start a game in qualifying. When they probably could have started for any country outside the top 10

 

Bobby Wood was absent from team training again today. He works indoors. Fiete Arp trained with the first team in his place. pic.twitter.com/CLOdrtRq3J

— HSV News English (@HSVnewsEN) April 12, 2017

 

He wanted to watch BVB and his buddy, CP.

 

Nah. I overheard at a party that someone at Hamburg said something mean about JK.

 

Bobby Wood was absent from training again today and appears to be a real doubt for Sunday's Nordderby. pic.twitter.com/1zF552Bwo3

— HSV News English (@HSVnewsEN) April 14, 2017

Wood is suffering from knee pain apparently. The club have been quite secretive this week about why he has not been training with the team.

— HSV News English (@HSVnewsEN) April 14, 2017

 

ugh no

 

Scant little to look forward to this weekend for YA fans.

He should be up and around for WCQ, though.

 

i see bobby wood and knee pain and think of what a miracle it is he plays at this level at all

 

why?

 

He had a pretty bad knee injury two years ago
https://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2015/02/23/usmnt-bobby-wood-knee-injury

 

New to this thread, aren't you?

 

http://www.mopo.de/sport/hsv/hsv-knipser-droht-auszufallen-wer-kann-wood-ersetzen--26714466

This article (machine translated) apparently swelling in the knee as the problem. It suggests he still might play Sunday. And the coach says he should be able to play the following week in any case:

At today's midday, coach Markus Gisdol said at the press conference before the derby of the case at Fall Wood: "At Bobby it is so that today we will try to look today, how his feeling of pain in the knee behaves As we then proceed for the game against Bremen. " But the injury is not a big deal: "If he can not play at the weekend, then it's relatively safe that he can play again next week, to eliminate any anxiety."

http://www.ligainsider.de/bobby-wood_1387/kniereizung-bremst-wood-aus-195618/

And the next article, according to the German translation, states "Bobby got a blow to the knee, which has responded a bit with swelling. It is not really a big deal, bit it limits his movement."

He underwent a stress test on Friday, and the decision will be made on Saturday.

http://www.mopo.de/sport/hsv/hsv-knipser-droht-auszufallen-wer-kann-wood-ersetzen--26714466

Too bad if he doesn't play, because he's likely to get a goal or two against a weak squad like Werder Bremen.

 

any more news about Leverkusen?

 

Was that supposed to be sarcasm because my detector is on hiatus. WB has picked up 4 wins and 2 draws in their last 6 games. They're the hottest team outside of BM.

 

Thank goodness it's not his old knee injury playing up again.

Many thanks for thetranslations. Sets our minds at rest

 

I hope not. Leverkusen aren't much better than HSV at the moment, and if HSV strengthen properly in the summer they'll be a t least as good.

HSV are the stereotypical sleeping giant, if they get back to where they "belong" they'll be CL quality and better. If they don't and he moves on, Bobby can do better than Leverkusen, either in BL1 or elsewhere in Europe.

 

Guess I haven't been paying attention. They sucked for much of the season.

 

He's in the squad for tomorrow.

 

And you are welcome for the translation ass.

 

Not in the 18 today:

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Waldschmidt, Götz, Janjicic, Douglas, Lasogga, Jatta und Mickel. pic.twitter.com/IeFgvufcvT

— Hamburger SV (@HSV) April 16, 2017

 

why? Damn.. this could have been a majestic Yank v Yank goalfest with Johansson and Wood getting a hattrick each.

 

Dang, looks like the only Yank to score in Europe this weekend has been Brooks.

 

Europa League qualification is still possible for Bremen now.