📏 Form Guide

Cologne

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Cologne will be looking to improve on their last outing here following the 1-0 Bundesliga 2 losing effort in their last game against Hannover.

In that match, Cologne managed 47% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Hannover 96 had 17 shots at goal with 6 on target. Lars Gindorf (57') scored for Hannover.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where Cologne have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Cologne have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 6 goals along the way. That trend might not be carried forward into this match, of course.

Regensburg

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In the game prior to this, Regensburg drew 1-1 in the Bundesliga 2 tie with Eintracht Braunschweig.

In that game, Regensburg had 46% possession and 7 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Regensburg was Robin Ziegele (4'). On the other side, Eintracht Braunschweig had 8 shots on goal with 4 on target. Jannis Nikolaou (6') was the scorer for Eintracht Braunschweig.

The stats don’t lie, and Regensburg have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 12 goals overall. In defence, Regensburg can certainly do much better.

Heading into this fixture, Regensburg have not won away from home in their last 18 league matches. They clearly need to do something about it.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 31/03/2013 shows that Cologne have won 3 of these games & Regensburg 1, with the number of draws standing at 2.

There were also goals galore in those games, with 24 in all at an average of 4 goals per match.

The previous league fixture between the two was Bundesliga 2 match day 15 on 08/12/2024 when the final score was Regensburg 0-1 Cologne.

That day, Regensburg had 41% possession and 11 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

Cologne got 13 shots at goal with 3 on target. Tim Lemperle (33') scored.

The match was refereed by Konrad Oldhafer.

📰 Team News: Cologne

It seems likely that Köln may well line up in a 4-4-2 system for the game, utilising Marvin Schwaebe, Jan Thielmann, Timo Huebers, Dominique Heintz, Max Finkgrafe, Dejan Ljubicic, G. Waldschmidt, Eric Martel, Florian Kainz, Tim Lemperle and Damion Downs.

🗞️ Team News: Regensburg

Regensburg boss Andreas Patz has a number of players out of action. Benedikt Saller (Inflammation of pubic bone), Max Meyer (Torn muscle fiber), Louis Breunig (Adductor tear), Oscar Schönfelder (Fitness) and Kai Pröger (Internal ligament tear) are those who can’t be considered.

We believe Regensburg might begin the game with a 3-3-2-2 formation with a starting lineup of Julian Pollersbeck, Leopold Wurm, Florian Ballas, Robin Ziegele, Frederic Ananou, C. Kuehlwetter, Tim Handwerker, Sebastian Ernst, Bryan Hein, Noah Ganaus and Eric Hottmann.

💡 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Regensburg should get enough chances to score against this Cologne lineup, but that probably won’t quite prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

Our selection here is for a 2-1 advantage for Cologne after the 90. Looking forward to seeing how this one unfolds.

Lucas Pereira, 18:07 03/05/2025