Hertha Berlin vs Cologne Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Hertha Berlin

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Hertha Berlin will be looking for another win after a 3-2 Bundesliga 1 success against Borussia Dortmund.

In that game, Hertha Berlin had 41% possession and 13 shots at goal with 5 on target. For Hertha Berlin, the goalscorers were Ishak Belfodil (51') and Marco Richter (57', 69'). Borussia Dortmund got 11 shots on goal with 4 on target. Julian Brandt (31') and Steffen Tigges (83') scored for Borussia Dortmund.

It’s not been often in recent games that Hertha Berlin have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that Hertha Berlin have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 11 goals during that time. We will see if that trend can be sustained in this game.

Taking a look at their past results, Hertha Berlin:

• have not won against Cologne in their last 4 league games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 5 league matches at home.

Cologne

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Cologne go into this clash following a 1-0 Bundesliga 1 win with the downing of Stuttgart in their most recent match.

In that game, Cologne had 51% possession and 10 shots on goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Cologne was Anthony Modeste (88'). For their opponents, VfB Stuttgart got 5 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

The numbers tell their own story, and Cologne have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 7 goals overall. At the back, Cologne can certainly do much better.

Pre-game facts show that Cologne:

• have not lost to Hertha Berlin when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 3 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings dating back to 14/04/2018, there has been little between the sides with Hertha Berlin winning 2 of those games, Cologne 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

In all, 16 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 7 from Hertha and 9 being from Köln. The average goals per game has been 2.67.

The last league game between these sides was Bundesliga 1 match day 1 on 15/08/2021 when it ended Cologne 3-1 Hertha Berlin.

That day, Cologne had 59% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 5 on target. The scorers were Anthony Modeste (41') and Florian Kainz (52', 55').

On the other side, Hertha Berlin had 10 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Stevan Jovetić (5') was the scorer.

The referee was Robert Hartmann.

🗞️ Team News: Hertha Berlin

Fredrik André Björkan (Corona virus), Lukas Klünter (Shoulder Injury), Rune Jarstein (Knee Surgery), Ruwen Werthmüller (Unknown Injury), Santiago Ascacíbar (Corona virus), Lucas Tousart (Corona virus), Ishak Belfodil (Corona virus), Linus Gechter (Corona virus) and Márton Dárdai (Muscle Injury) won’t be playing for Hertha Berlin boss Tayfun Korkut.

We are thinking that Hertha will possibly use a 4-4-2 system for this game, beginning the first half with Alexander Schwolow, Peter Pekarik, Niklas Stark, Jordan Torunarigha, M. Mittelstaedt, Marco Richter, Vladimir Darida, Santiago Ascacibar, Suat Serdar, Davie Selke and Myziane Maolida.

🗞️ Team News: Cologne

Owing to a fully healthy group to pick from, the Cologne manager Steffen Baumgart doesn’t have any fitness worries to report before this clash.

We believe Köln appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-1-3-2 formation, starting the game with Marvin Schwaebe, Benno Schmitz, Timo Huebers, Luca Kilian, Jonas Hector, Salih Oezcan, Florian Kainz, Ondrej Duda, Louis Schaub, Mark Uth and Anthony Modeste.

💭 Prediction

We’re of the view that Cologne and Hertha Berlin won’t have much between them here, and goals could be hard to come by.

A scoreless draw looks like a real possibility, but we’ll see what happens. We’re therefore expecting a tight encounter with a 0-0 score at the end of this one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 00:41 05/01/2022