Although it suddenly becomes very tight for the promotion of the Bundesliga, the 1. FC Köln wants to keep calm and hold on to the coach. A solution to the problem is not recognizable.
The embarrassing 1: 1 on Saturday evening (03.05.2025) against Regensburg becomes a good bit more painful if you look at the current away table of the 2nd Bundesliga. The Jahn is one of the historically worst team in this division in foreign places. Before the kick -off, the bottom of the table had reached exactly one point in foreign places, he has now doubled this yield. Regensburg is still ten points worse than the currently second worst team in this category: Braunschweig is at twelve points.
In the end, Regensburg was not enough, the team is the first relegation. Whether the Jahn will separate two play classes from Cologne in the coming season is now actually doubtful. FC has only scored five points from the past five games and thus destroyed a comfortable starting point in the race for the return. There are only three points left on the relegation place that SC Paderborn has, and the remaining program of FC reads tough: On Friday (6.30 p.m., live ticker at Sportschau.de) it goes to the 1. FC Nürnberg, then 1. FC Kaiserslautern, which himself still has ambitions on the ascent.
The fans would prefer to all be released
However, no opponent is easy for Cologne, which showed the Regensburg game. 22: 5 goal shots were not enough for the FC because again there was a lot of calculating things, Cologne plays too slowly, without a moment of surprise. The fear of losing everything again dominates the anticipation for the big goal and paralyzes your legs. How to deal with it, the fans in the south curve clearly added to the log: all out and immediately. “Struber out” it sounded of the ranks, alternating with “basement out”.
After the game, the Koelner fans scream anger.
Cologne’s sports manager Christian Keller, who is certainly not fired two game days before the end of the season, has already found that he will not fire Gerhard Struber – the coach “Hundred percent” Stay in office, he has that “Trust and tailwind” – Probably Keller said the backing.
Sayings of rising sun and switches to be transferred
What happens substantially in front of the duels with Nuremberg and Kaiserslautern, which mistakes have to be turned off, how to get to the heads of the players – this cannot be seen from the Keller’s explanations. Because basement tries to phrases like “We have to change the switch now”the look ahead, the world was not lost and: “Tomorrow the sun will open again”.
Struber comments on the grandstand calls in its direction: “Of course it is not fine when you perceive that the topic is. But that I am the lightning rod for the team’s performance is clear. I am the head coach from FC.”
No Hopeful For the Bundesliga
The Austrian is not only the lightning rod, but also the person responsible for services such as against Regensburg. With this, even if, in view of the pursuers from Magdeburg or Düsseldorf, who also folds in the weekly rhythm, he works with the ascent, not now, like the great hope for a longer remaining in the upper house.
Struber gets encouragement from the team, keeper Marvin Schwäbe says: “Struber is very popular with us, we don’t need to discuss it.”
Hüber’s wants “step in the butt”
Captain Timo Hübert even compares the current mood in Cologne with the relegation battle last season. He has a “déjà vu”, but he makes it clear :: “This is a completely different situation. We can really do something, and these positive images have to go into the heads as soon as possible. This also takes a kick in the butt.”