Cologne launches its “mission resurgence”
On the first matchday of the 2. Bundesliga, two teams from the west meet with Bochum and Cologne. We took a look at this interesting game in our Bundesliga Bet Tips as usual and presented you with Bet Tips and Predictions for this match. The kick-off is on Saturday, 1 pm.Coach early in preseason with Kiel League-3
Current form Bochum
Bochum finished the preseason on the good 6th place. This is mainly thanks to a great spring. In the second half of the season, they celebrated 7 wins in 17 games. Robin Dutt took over the trainer scepter in February. Under him the VfL lost only 2 times . Six times they were allowed to celebrate a victory, 4 times Westphalia shared the points with the opponent. Dutt installed a compact 4-2-3-1 in Bochum. With 20:21 goals fell in the second half only a few matches in games with VfL participation. In the 12 games under Dutt 7 games were there in which fell less than 2.5 goals, For us, this is an indicator that there are fewer goals to be expected against Cologne. Lukas Hinterseer was the club’s top scorer with 14 goals. The Bochum also count in the new season on hits of the Austrians. The top assistants Kevin Stöger (8 assists, 4 goals) left the club in the direction of Dusseldorf. But top performer Robbie Kruse (7 goals, 6 assists) stayed on board. So far, Bochum has been reluctant to go on the transfer market. Robert Tesche (Birmingham City) and Sebastian Maier (Hannover) strengthen the midfield. Bochum was with 8 home victories to the upper third of the league. 5 points were left, 4 times the opponent kidnapped the victory from the Ruhrstadion.With 22:16 goals counted the Ruhrpottklub also in this statistic to the more restrained clubs. The Bochum were in the past season a pronounced late starter . Only 8 wins could be booked in the first half. Only 3 clubs began their games worse. Anyone who speculates that this will be the same in the new season, can count on high betting odds on a Cologne victory in halftime 1. With the Bochumers we could make 7 preparatory games. Here are 3 wins, such as against FC Zurich and Stoke. Monaco braved a draw. Bochum has to pretend to injured Jannik Bandowski.
Current form Cologne
4 seasons held the 1. FC Cologne in the Bundesliga, before in the past season the 6th descent of the club happened. The Rhinelander brought the Cologne Markus start as a new coach, who sensationally climbed to third place in the 2nd Bundesliga with newly promoted Kiel . Anfang installed a modern 4-1-4-1 system in Cologne. In the midfield center, the two newcomers Dominick Drexler (from Kiel) and Louis Schaub (Rapid Vienna) will switch. The goal is to score Jhon Córdoba, who scored 10 times in 69 Bundesliga games. Cologne was able to keep the basic structure together as far as possible over the summer . Timo Horn provides the backing in goal. On the wings, Jonas Hector and Marcel Risse are long-time identifiers.The Cologne are the second division Croesus with a total market value of 75 million euros. Thus, the Cologne players are about 5 times as much as the Bochum . The Cologne have to recover from a bad Bundesliga season. The last 7 games could not win all. The Cologne have been waiting for a victory for 5 games away. After all: In the last 6 games scored the 1st FC always at least one goal. In the last 18 games, the Cologne were only once do not celebrate their own goal. Nevertheless, the attack was a weak spot in the preseason. Leonardo Bittencourt (who moved to Hoffenheim) and Simon Terodde were the best strikers with 5 goals each. Scarcely 1 goal scored the Cologne only on average per game, In addition, one was the shooting gallery of the league. 70 goals were definitely too much. Rafael Czichos from Kiel strengthened the defense. The preparation time was rather mixed by the results. We counted 7 friendly games with 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. This resulted however against the unterklassigen Bonn SC. But they defeated the Bundesliga Werder Bremen (1-0) and Mainz (5: 3). Also, a draw against Wuppertal was there, which shows us that the Cologne against even more difficult for smaller clubs to dictate the game. In Cologne, Marco Höger fails for the first season game due to injury.
Betting Tip VfL Bochum vs FC Köln
- UNDER 2.5 GOALS
There is no clear favorite for the bookmakers to win. We also dare not give a victory tip. For this we expect a rather scoreless encounter. Our bet tip: under 2.5 goals throughout the game .
