Our prediction for this Bundesliga match:
Freiburg
Match Time & Date:
17 December 2023
14:30
Prediction: 1-0
Koln
Freiburg will look to extend their winning run in Bundesliga to three games when they welcome Koln to their Europa-Park Stadion on Sunday afternoon. Christian Streich’s troops are only two points behind the Conference League berth and a win over Koln could see them climb to top six in the standings. All Kenneth Schmidt, Yannik Keitel, Maximilian Philipp, Max Rosenfelder, Christian Gunter, and Daniel-Kofi Kyereh should miss out with injuries.
The Billy Goats, meanwhile, aim to escape the relegation zone, but given Freiburg’s fine form in all competitions, we do not believe that the visitors are capable of grabbing something from the match. Both Sargis Adamyan and Faride Alidou are out of contention with injuries for the visiting team. In their last meeting at the venue Freiburg defeated Koln 2-0 and we predict that history is going to repeat itself.
Highlighted Player (Nils Petersen):
Son to a football coach, Andreas, the Freiburg striker Nils Petersen is a physical forward best known for his clinical finishing. A former Bayern Munich striker never got a chance to prove his worth with Bundesliga giants and had to take a long road to prominence which included loan spells at Werder Bremen and Freiburg, before penning a permanent deal with Die Breisaguer in 2015.
Petersen’s impressive exploits during the 2017/18 season helped him get into Germany’s provisional FIFA World Cup 2018 squad although his father Andreas would argue it was his personal influence that helped Joachim Loew write his son’s name in the 23-man list. Namely, Andres Piteresen spotted the Germany manager on a beach in January and decided to ask him about his son’s chances of making it into Germany World Cup squad.
Piteresen was rewarded with his senior Germany cap in an Austria friendly but unfortunately for his father missed out on the final squad for the tournament in Russia.
Highlighted Team (Koln):
FC Koln is a German football club from Koln and is currently active in the Bundesliga. The club was founded on 13th of February in 1948 after a fusion between Koner BC01 and SpVgg Sulz07. Like many German football clubs FC Koln is not only a football club but has different other sports departments as well.
FC Koln currently hosts it’s home games in the Rhein Energie Stadium which holds a capacity of almost 51 000 spectators and was recently renovated in 2004.The main club colours are white and red. The most known nickname for FC Koln is Die Geißböcke which literally means the Goats. The biggest rivals of FC Koln are Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Monchengladbach and Fortuna Dusseldorf. The club from Koln holds a narrow relationship with St Pauli, Liverpool and Paris Saint Germain.
FC Koln is one of the most successful clubs in Germany winning the Bundesliga title 3 times and the DFB Pokal 3 times. Notable players that played for FC Koln are Schuster, Korput, Olsen, Weber and Muller.
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