Football second division 1. FC Köln asserted the lead again with a short home win and rehabilitated the bitter trophy at Double winner Bayer Leverkusen during the week.
At 1-0 (1-0) against Schalke 04 in the sold-out Rheinenergie Stadium, the club once more demonstrated the newly won maturity and scored the next three points with little spectacle.
Damion Downs (14th) put the billy goats in the lead after a hair -raising mistake by the birthday child Mehmet Aydin. The right -back wanted to drain a flank with his chest to keeper Justin Heekeren, but had made the bill without the lintel linton Maina. The latter stealed the ball and put it across for his storm partner.
In the second round, the Cologne people seemed to go out and Schalke got better into the game, but hardly earned any compelling opportunities.
In the 100th competitive game between the two traditional clubs, important regular players were missing on both sides. Cologne had to do without his yellow-locked captain Timo Hüber’s, on the part of the guests, top scorer Moussa Sylla was missing with a muscle fiber tear and Paul Seguin, who also had to serve a yellow lock.
At the beginning of the second half, Neo Telle, 19-year-old central defender, came into play and celebrated his professional debut in the Cologne jersey.