Our prediction for this Bundesliga match:
Borussia M’gladbach play host to Koln at their Borussia-Park on day 25 of the 2023/2024 Bundesliga campaign. Die Fohlen are stuck in the middle of the table with little to play for in the season finale, but they surely want to return to winning ways following a 1-1 draw with Mainz. Both Alassane Plea and Tomas Cvancara are sidelined with injuries, but there are no suspended players in the home team.
The Billy Goats, on the other hand, are desperate to avoid automatic relegation to 2. Bundesliga, but given their anything but good away record, we believe that there is a big value in betting on the home side. In their last meeting at the venue Borussia M’gladbach rolled over Koln 5-2 and we predict that history is going to repeat itself. To make things even worse for the away side, both Jan Thielmann and Dejan Ljubicic are out of contention through suspension.
Highlighted Player (Marvin Friedrich):
Marvin Friedrich is a product of FSC Guxhagen football school. The German footballer played for the likes of OSC Vellmar, Paderborn and Schalke during his youth career as well before making his senior debut with die Knappen.
Marvin Friedrich scored 4 goals in 30 appearances for Schalke B before he started playing for the senior team. The German defender made his Bundesliga debut on September 13, 2014 in a 4-1 loss to Borussia M’gladbach. Nowadays Friedrich plays for Union Berlin as he signed a permanent deal with the Bundesliga side on July 5, 2019. His main position is centre-back, but he is capable of producing fine performances as both left and right back as well.
Friedrich’s contract with Union Berlin expires on June 30, 2022. The versatile defender has yet to make his debut with the Germany senior team, but he has four caps with Germany U20 and three with Germany U19 respectively.
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.