Cologne results football as a guest at Magdeburg experience football – on Friday evening both clubs meet in the second division top game. FCM annoy external circumstances before the game. And of course the weakness of home.
“Actually, I don’t like to respond to the topic,” said Christian Titz at the press conference of the 1. FC Magdeburg before the second division leading against 1. FC Köln (Friday, February 14th, from 6.30 p.m. in the live ticker and completely live in the app from Sport in the East) First. To give his team no excuse. But then he is annoyed: “The most important thing to practice our profession is the training places. And we have really had big problems during the week. Yesterday, the day before yesterday it was not possible. And it will not be possible today. That we can go out on the pitch. “
“Maximum Risk of injury “
Before the duel of the second division fourth against the leader, the FCM must train in the hall. This is not a new situation, but always annoying. “The space outside is frozen due to the lack of lawn heating, there is a maximum risk of injury. This is anything but optimal in preparation,” explains FCM spokesman Manuel Holscher.
Scene from the first leg: Martijn Kaars (1.FC Magdeburg / Li.) And Timo Hübers (1. FC Köln / Re) in duel.
Result football meets adventure football
With an indoor form, the FCM goes into the home game against the promotion favorite from Cologne. The long -standing Bundesliga club impresses with a strong defensive and minimalism. The FC coach Gerhard Struber team brought home 1-0 seven of the youngest eight victories. Cologne results football meets Magdeburg experience football. In the four games of 2025, four times as many goals have been scored in FCM games as in Cologne games. The FCM has the second best offensive in the league. Nine team of the 2nd league, on the other hand, are better than Cologne.
FC coach Struber turns the system around
Cologne has changed under the Austrian coach Struber. “In the first games, they really started very impressively with an offensive football that was really not only nice to look at, which was really high quality,” Titz analyzes in retrospect. The FC problem of the initial phase was the lack of consistency. Cologne scored eleven times in the first seven games of the season, but only won twice. Spectacle highlight was the 4: 4 against Karlsruhe: Cologne already led 3: 0 and 4: 2, but still conceded the equalization. Against the FCM had to 1: 2 FC 1: 2 beat.
“Now you have modified your game,” said Titz. “You have an enormous defensive stability, have a squad with really good players. Maybe with the strongest squad in the league. You will present us with tasks.”
Titz: “Want to win 1-0 again”
With a view to your own 3: 4 defeat against Nuremberg last week, Titz wishes: “I would also like to win 1-0 again.” Because the FCM has another problem in addition to the frozen training places: the blatant home weakness . On February 24, 2024, Coach Titz’s team achieved the last home win. Magdeburg is already concerned with the black home series throughout the season, and the FCM is the bottom of the table in the home table.
FCM trainer Titz, who became Magdeburg coach almost exactly four years ago and experienced his 153rd FCM game on Friday, would be happy. The good news in advance: Unlike training, the game is not at risk on Friday evening – the Magdeburg stadium has a lawn heating.
Dirk Hofmeister
