On Sunday, 1. FC Cologne will face Hoffenheim 1899. Kick-off at the Rhein-Energie-Stadion is at 19:30. We have analysed the match, the teams and the odds and have a betting tip for you
What speaks in favour of 1. FC Cologne?
- Two home wins in the Bundesliga recently
- Chance for players from the second row
What speaks for 1899 Hoffenheim?
- Outstanding record of 8 wins in a row against Cologne
- Rested, only a few games in the bones
- In good form
Our betting prediction:
- Bet: Hoffenheim -1 Asian Handicap
- Bookie: Bet365
- Odds: 3.10
Team-News 1. FC Cologne
On Friday at 13:00 the 1. FC Cologne played their Conference Cup match against Slovacko. With the lucky 1-0 win, the club has kept all chances to enter the next round of the European Cup – provided they win the match against OGC Nice next Thursday
The match against Slovacko was originally scheduled for Thursday evening, but heavy fog delayed kick-off and eventually led to the complete cancellation of Thursday’s game. A replacement date was quickly found in the form of Friday, but this throws the Cologne team’s plans into disarray. After all, the tired team has to play again a full 50 hours after the final whistle in Slovakia. And that against a rested and highly ambitious team from Sinsheim, of all places
Coach Baumgart will not be able to avoid using players from the second row. There will be many changes. Cologne will not want to give the game completely out of its hands. But there is not much in Cologne’s favour. Cologne’s injured list is also long. The absence of captain Jonas Hector is particularly painful. Kilian is red-shirted, and Ljubicic has a knee injury. Three pillars of the team are already missing
Team-News Hoffenheim
Andre Breitenreiter’s team is in excellent form and was only stopped by Bayern Munich recently. Hoffenheim has only played 5 games so far in October and, with the exception of the DFB-Pokal match against Schalke, has always had a week’s break. Hoffenheim is aware of the difficult situation for Cologne with only a short break – but multi-billionaire Hopp’s team will not give anyone presents
For Hoffenheim, record goalscorer Andre Kramaric will return to the team to replace the injured Dabbur. Otherwise, 1899 does not have many absentees to report
Statistics
It’s safe to say that Cologne is Hoffenheim’s favourite opponent – or, conversely, that Cologne fear no other team as much as 1899. Hoffenheim have won 9 of their last 10 games, including 8 in a row. The goal difference of these 10 games? 31:5, so on average 3.1:0.5
Our betting prediction for 1. FC Cologne vs. 1899 Hoffenheim
There are five points that clearly speak against Cologne in this match. First of all, the short break between Friday and Sunday’s game. Then the fact that they will spare players. In addition, they have a long injured list and an extremely important European Cup match ahead of them, which will decide who goes through to the next round and thus important revenue. They also have a disastrous record against Hoffenheim
And the form of the last few weeks and Hoffenheim’s self-confident appearances lately also clearly speak in favour of Hoffenheim. Therefore, we bet on an away win for Hoffenheim and also dare to choose the Asian Handicap -1 to get higher odds of 3.1
Our betting tip: 1899 Hoffenheim -1 AH @3.1
Other
Schalke 04 home win @4.00
Borussia M’Gladbach DNB @2.675
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