Second division team 1. FC Köln takes a big step towards the Bundesliga against Münster. When the climb could be perfect.
The professionals of the 1st FC Köln gave their fans a happy Easter against Prussia Münster on Sunday. After the 3-1 win against the relegation candidate, the mood in the stadium was left out. The players hopped and sang in front of the south grandstand, on which the trailers cheered the return to the top of the table and the now approaching Bundesliga promotion frenetically.
After all, the 1st FC Köln was once more like the winner in the promotion race on this Easter weekend. The 1. FC Kaiserslautern failed, the direct pursuers SV Elversberg and Fortuna Düsseldorf shared the points in the immediate duel-and Hamburger SV did not get out of a 2: 2 at FC Schalke despite almost 90-minute surcharge. In this way, the Cologne team could not only get back the lead, but also extend the lead to the relegation place to five points and to the fourth place in the table to six points.
Nevertheless, nobody at FC does not want to fall into a promotion euphoria. “The season taught us that we are well advised to look from game to game. It is a step in the right direction, but that could have been in the games before,” said Timo Hübers after the first three after two games in a row. The captain noted that his team had previously left some steep templates of the competition.
So FC might have already celebrated the climb “if we had played every game really convincingly,” said Hübers. Nevertheless, it now seems difficult to imagine that the FC is still giving its lead over to twelve points to be awarded. Because the competitors also present themselves anything but constant this season.
The 1st FC Köln will go to Hanover for the 1st FC Köln for the 1st FC Köln. The 96s seem to have finally adopted the promotion race with the 1: 3 defeat in Darmstadt, with six points behind in third place and eleven to FC in tenth in the table. A victory in Lower Saxony would still not mean the final Bundesliga return for the Cologne team-no matter how the other teams play on the 31st matchday.
Early after the subsequent home game against Jahn Regensburg on May 3, the Cologne could have certainty, provided that the competition does not suddenly suddenly won victories. With SV Elversberg against SC Paderborn, Fortuna Düsseldorf against 1. FC Nürnberg and Hamburger SV against Karlsruher SC, however, the teams from the upper third of the table will take the points away again the next matchday.
After 30 match days, the 1. FC Köln already has the certainty that the remaining four games will surely be enough to be on a direct promotion place at the end of the season. “If we stay with us, we no longer have to look at the others,” said goalkeeper Marvin Schwäbe. Then it doesn’t take long before the FC can start with the celebrations.