Week 7 brings us a match on Sep 18th where Bochum hosts Köln in a meeting of these two Bundesliga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 11 degrees, a perfect day for football. 18th placed Bochum is fresh off their 1-3 loss against Schalke 04. Dominick Drexler scored the first goal for Schalke 04 in the 38th minute, but Zoller got the equalizer for Bochum in the 51st minute. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having lost 6 of their last 10, while in their last match, Köln recorded a 0-1 loss against Union Berlin. Timo Hübers struck first for Union Berlin on an own goal in the 4th minute, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster In the end, Köln was frustrated by Union Berlin’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Union Berlin ended the match with the shutout victory. Köln is looking for direction having earned 13 points in their last 10 matches.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season Köln won the head to head battle with 1 win.
Joško Gvardiol and Florian Dietz are the top scorers for Köln in the last five matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal..
Bochum will be without Konstantinos Stafylidis, Dominique Heintz, Saidy Janko, Jannes Horn, Soares and Grave, while Köln will be without Benno Schmitz and Julian Chabot.