Cologne will travel to Europa Park on Sunday to face Freiburg in the first leg of the Bundesliga.
Freiburg will come into the game on the back of a 1-1 draw with Karabagh in the Europa League. In this match, “Freiburg” had 45% of the ball and 7 shots on goal. One of them hit the post. Nils Petersen scored the goal for “Freiburg” (25′). And “Karabali” had 11 shots on goal, 5 of them on target. Owusu Kwabena (91′) scores for Karabakh. Christian Streich’s Freiburg side have scored eight goals in their last six games. On the other hand, eight goals were scored in this match. In their previous match, “Cologne” drew 2:2 with “Nice” in the Conference League match.
Denis Huseinbašić (48′) and Ondrej Duda (60′) score for Cologne. Gaetan Laborde (40′) and Bilal Brahimi (43′) score for Nice.
Statistics don’t lie. They have scored a total of 12 goals in 5 of their last 6 games against Köln. Defensively, Köln has room for improvement.
Prediction
Freiburg are on a 5 match unbeaten streak and have lost just 1 of their last 17 matches. They are unbeaten in their last 8 home games and will take their chances here.
On the other hand, Köln are tied with just one win in their last 4 matches. They have won just one of their last 6 road contests and are likely to lose.
Head-to-head
Looking at the last match on August 31, 2019, Freiburg won 2 times, Köln won 3 times and 1 more times.
During this period, both teams scored a total of 20 goals. Of these, 11 goals were in Freiburg and 9 in Cologne. This gives an average of 3.33 goals per game.
The previous league match between these two teams ended in a 1-0 defeat to Köln Freiburg on Matchday 21 of the Bundesliga on 2 February 2022. In this case “Köln” had 43% of the ball and had 12 goals and 3 goals. The only player to score was Anthony Modeste (23′). Freiburg had 15 shots, including two.
Line-up
SC Freiburg:
Philipp Lienhart, Christian Guenter, Maximilian Eggestein, Nicolas Hoefler, Ritsu Doan, Daniel-Kofi Kyereh, Vincenzo Grifo and Michael Gregoritsch, Mark Flekken, Lukas Kuebler, Matthias Ginter.
Kōln:
Luca Kilian, Timo Huebers, Kristian Pedersen, Ellyes Skhiri, Eric Martel, Linton Maina, Ondrej Duda, Florian Kainz and Steffen Tigges,Marvin Schwaebe, Benno Schmitz.
Betting tips
- Result: Freiburg
- Goals – Over/under 2.5 – Over 2.5 goals (Eight of the last ten meetings between the two teams have produced more than 2.5 goals.)
- Koln to concede first: YES (The visitors have conceded the first goal in eight of their last ten games.)
Where to watch
Sony Liv Broadcasts all the matches of bundesliga.