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Downs breaks off with pain – three regular players sick
Updated on 06.03.2025 – 3:08 p.m.Reading time: 31 min.
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Thursday, March 06, 2025
The 1. FC Köln has bigger staff worries before the away game at SSV Ulm on Saturday afternoon. The Downs Downs, injured on the left hand, returned to team training on Thursday with a special rail, but had to stop the unit after half an hour. Subsequently, Gerhard Struber said: “The pain is currently still at a level that makes Damion a bit out of the concept. So he wobbles.”
The latter also applies to Learst Pacarada, Dominique Heintz and Eric Martel. The three regular forces reported on Thursday due to illness. Mark Uth had already lacked the previous day due to an infection. “We have one or the other question mark,” said Struber, who has to hope for a quick recovery. Otherwise the Cologne squad really goes on the gums.
Damion Downs did not return to the team training of the 1st FC Köln on Wednesday. The attacker was missing at the beginning of the week due to a hand injury that he had contracted against the Karlsruher SC. With a specially made carbon rail, the 20-year-old is now to go back to training on Thursday and will be available at SSV Ulm on Saturday.
In addition, Mark Uth was missing from the middle of the week. The offensive player battered in the past few years has been denied in the morning due to illness. For this, Tim Lemperle was able to complete large parts of the team training again. If the striker had only completed the warm-up program on Tuesday, the 23-year-old was on the lawn a day later with his teammates.
Good news at the 1. FC Köln: Striker Tim Lemperle was able to participate again on Tuesday. The 23-year-old was back on the lawn five weeks after his renewed setback due to a muscle injury. At least one joker mission on Saturday is possible in the area of the possible in the area of the SSV Ulm.
For coach Gerhard Struber all the more important, since Damion Downs had another attacker at the start of the training week. The 20-year-old suffered a hand injury against the Karlsruher SC. However, it should not be in danger on Saturday. In addition, the long -term injured Linton Maina, Julian Pauli, Jacob Christensen and Luca Kilian were missing on Tuesday.
At the beginning of February, the previously clubless Anthony Modeste switched to CF Intercity. Now the ex-striker of the 1st FC Köln has met for the first time for the Spanish third division team from Alicante. In the 2: 2 against the second representation of Real Madrid, Modeste achieved 1-0 with a fall back.
The Frenchman fights for relegation with his new club. As the bottom of the table, CF Intercity currently has six points behind the saving bank. Modeste’s contract initially only runs until the end of the season, but would extend a further season in the event of league sloping.
The fears of 1. FC Köln have been confirmed. The second division team will have to do without Linton Maina for several weeks. The attacker suffered an injury to the ankle on Saturday evening in the game against Karlsruher SC. The association did not announce exactly how long the best template of the 2nd league will be.