Only one team has scored less goals in this second half of the season than 1. FC Köln. Before the derby against Fortuna Düsseldorf, the offensive worries of the Cologne team get even bigger.
For the second time this season, 1st FC Köln against 1. FC Magdeburg stayed without his own goal. Before that, this had only happened on the 0-1 defeat against Hamburger SV on the 18th matchday. In general, the Cologne people have blossomed to the minimalists of the league since their adoption from offensive hurray football.
Of the nine victories that the FC has run since the beginning of November and which the team rinsed to first place in the 2nd league, seven ended with a narrow 1-0. If the Cologne defensive holds, the FC finally offers a single goal to score the three points. However, if the coordination does not fit like on Friday evening in Magdeburg, it can quickly go in the other direction.
From the top 10 of the league, Hannover 96 with 28 own goals has achieved less than 1. FC Köln (36 goals). For comparison: No league leader has scored fewer goals in the past five years than the Domstadt. The balance sheet in the back series is particularly expandable.
FC was only able to score four goals in the five games in 2025. Only the SV Darmstadt 98 – currently the bottom of the second round table in the table – comes to even fewer hits with two goals. With nine points, the people of Cologne also scored an acceptable point of points.
However, the offensive harmlessness is not the claim of the aspirant. “It wasn’t what we imagined. And not what we can play,” said Timo Hübers after the 0: 3 in Magdeburg. In possession of the ball, his team found “few solutions, played too many long balls – we have to increase significantly.”
What the captain demands: “More rotation, more opposite movements, more the deep start and more precise balls behind the chain. We just didn’t get that well. And if we found the people in the center, they had pressure in the center Butt.” Team colleague Dominique Heintz also said: “We always lacked the last pass, the last degree to really get on goal.”
The Cologne offensive worries get a little bigger with a view to the staff. Top scorer Damion Downs (nine goals) suffered a strain against Magdeburg. His commitment to Fortuna Düsseldorf on Sunday is on the brink. After all, Downs achieved half of the four Cologne second round.
You are currently watching the 20-year-old “from day to day”. Just like with Tim Lemperle: the striker, with eight best Cologne goal scorers with eight goals, has been out with a muscle injury for some time. Before the game against FC Schalke 04, FC coach Gerhard Struber said the hope that the 23-year-old was available again in the derby. How likely this is, but will only show the upcoming training days.