Our prediction for this Bundesliga match:
Sunday’s football game between Koln and Stuttgart will bring down the curtain on day 17 of the new Bundesliga campaign. The Billy Goats aim to build on a 3-2 win over Wolfsburg, and they must be high on confidence ahead of the visit of Stuttgart. A man to watch in the home team will be experienced attacker Anthony Modeste, who scored a brace in the midweek triumph, while all Salih Ozcan, Dejan Ljubicic, Tomas Ostrak, and Timo Horn are sidelined with injuries.
Die Schwaben, on the other hand, suffered a massive 5-0 loss to title holders Bayern Munchen on Tuesday, with the team remaining in the danger zone. Given Koln’s display in the triumph over Wolfsburg, we predict that the visitors are going to return home empty-handed. Stuttgart’s injury list is pretty long, with all Kalajdzic, Bredlow, Massimo, Millot, Nartey, Sankoh, Sosa, and Thommy struggling with injuries of late.
Highlighted Player (Jonas Hector):
Jonas Hector is a product of Koln’s youth school. The left back was born on 27 May, 1990 in Saarbrucken and he began his youth career at SV Auersmacher. In 2010 he joined FC Koln and he made 63 league appearances for the reserve team between 2010 and 2013. Ever since he made his debut for the senior team on 27 August, 2012 he has been playing regularly for the Billy Goats and he certainly helped the team return to Bundesliga at the end of the 2013/2014 campaign.
Jonas Hector made his Germany debut on 14 November, 2014 in a 4-0 win over Gibraltar. The left-footed defender scored his first goal for the German national team on 29 March, 2016 in a 4-1 victory over Italy in Munich.
Hector represented his homeland at the 2016 European Championship finals in France and he scored the winner from the penalty spot in the quarter-final against Italy. Hector is capable of playing as a midfielder as well.
Highlighted Team (Stuttgart):
VfB Stuttgart is a German football club from the regio Bad Canstatt. With over 44 000 members VfB Stuttgart can be considered as one of the top 10 biggest football clubs in the nation. The German football club was founded in 1912 and is playing in the Bundesliga since the very first day.
VfB Stuttgart is currently playing its home games in the Mercedes-Benz Arena which was build in 1933 and holds a capacity of 65 000 seats. The stadium is considered as one of the most impressive and modern stadiums in Germany. The club colors of VfB Stuttgart are White and Red. The VfB Stuttgart fans gave the club the nickname Die Schwaben.
VfB Stuttgart is a successful club in the Bundesliga winning the league title 5 times, the DFB Pokal 3 times and the Supercup once. The club from Bad Canstatt haven’t had any big successes in Europe yet. The club end as runner up in the Europacup II and the UEFA Cup. Important players in the history of Stuttgart are: Tomasson, Bierofka, Dunga, Elber, Gomez, Lahm, Kuranyi and Yakin.