📏 Form Guide

Cologne

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Cologne, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 1-2 Bundesliga 2 victory versus Nuremberg.

In that game, Cologne had 52% possession and 23 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The only player to score for Cologne was Florian Kainz (67', 90'). For their opponents, Nuremberg had 5 shots at goal with 1 on target. Janis Antiste (46') was the scorer for Nuremberg.

It’s been seldom in recent games that Cologne have shown defensive steel. In fact, Cologne have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 6 goals along the way.

Their prior results show that Cologne:

• have not been beaten in the league by Kaiserslautern in their last 3 matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Kaiserslautern

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Kaiserslautern will come into the encounter after a 2-1 Bundesliga 2 win with the downing of Darmstadt in their last match.

In that match, Kaiserslautern managed 47% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Kaiserslautern, the scorers were Marlon Ritter (15') and Ragnar Ache (45'). For their opponents, Darmstadt 98 got 14 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Luca Marseiler (3') scored for Darmstadt.

Looking at their form, and Kaiserslautern have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 10 goals in all. At the back, Kaiserslautern just haven’t been too solid at all. That sort of pattern isn’t assured to be continued into this game, though.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Kaiserslautern:

• have not beaten Cologne when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league games.
• have not been beaten by Cologne in away games against them for the last 4 league games. A very good record, indeed.
• are without a win away from home in their last 5 league matches.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head-to-head clashes dating back to 26/10/2012 shows us that Cologne have won 1 of these and Kaiserslautern 2, with the number of drawn matches being 3.

An aggregate of 15 goals were scored between them in these games, with 6 of them from Köln and 9 coming from Kaiserslautern. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.

The last league encounter between these sides was Bundesliga 2 match day 17 on 22/12/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Kaiserslautern 0-1 Cologne.

That time, Kaiserslautern managed 67% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target.

Cologne got 10 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Dejan Ljubičić (33') was the scorer.

The referee was Wolfgang Haslberger.

🗞️ Team News: Cologne

In all likelihood, Köln could employ a 4-2-3-1 formation this time with Marvin Schwaebe, Jusuf Gazibegovic, Timo Huebers, Dominique Heintz, Leart Paqarada, Eric Martel, Denis Huseinbasic, Jan Thielmann, G. Waldschmidt, Florian Kainz and Damion Downs.

📋 Team News: Kaiserslautern

Kaiserslautern manager Markus Anfang has a number of players out of action. Hendrick Zuck (Cruciate ligament tear) and Fabian Heck (Scaphoid fracture) won’t be making appearances.

It’s our belief that Kaiserslautern appear most likely to make use of a 4-4-2 system, choosing Julian Krahl, Jan Elvedi, Jannis Heuer, Erik Wekesser, Jean Zimmer, Filip Kaloc, Luca Sirch, Florian Kleinhansl, Marlon Ritter, Daniel Hanslik and Ragnar Ache.

💡 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Cologne will most probably be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

At the same time, Kaiserslautern may well struggle to score a goal of their own although we do reckon that they could well end up seeing enough of the ball to score, too.

Our tip is for a controlled 3-1 winning margin for Cologne come full-time.

Renata Leite, 13:04 18/05/2025