📏 Form Guide

Cologne

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Cologne are hoping to win again following the 1-2 Bundesliga 2 triumph over SC Paderborn 07.

In that game, Cologne managed 52% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. For Cologne, the scorers were Imad Rondić (42') and Denis Huseinbašić (61'). For their opponents, Paderborn 07 had 23 shots at goal with 8 of them on target. Marvin Mehlem (34') was the scorer for SC Paderborn 07.

It has not been often in recent games that Cologne have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Cologne have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 7 goals in the process. It will be interesting to find out if that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Cologne:

• haven't lost in the league to Hertha Berlin in their last 2 games.
• are undefeated in their last 7 home league matches.

Hertha Berlin

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Hertha Berlin come into this clash after a 3-1 Bundesliga 2 win with the downing of Karlsruhe in their last fixture.

In that game, Hertha Berlin managed 42% possession and 13 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. For Hertha Berlin, the scorers were Fabian Reese (16', 47') and Luca Schuler (89'). Karlsruher got 12 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Marvin Wanitzek (55') was the scorer for Karlsruhe.

In a total of 5 of the previous 6 games involving Hertha Berlin, a minimum of three goals have been struck. The average number of goals per match within that spell is 3.33, with the number of goals averaged by Hertha Berlin working out to 1.67.

Going into this encounter, Hertha Berlin have not won against Cologne when having played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head meetings going back to 15/08/2021 shows that Cologne have won 5 of these games & Hertha Berlin 1, with the number of drawn results being 0.

In all, 21 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 14 for Köln and 7 being from Hertha. The average goals per game has been 3.5.

ℹ️ Team News: Hertha Berlin

Hertha Berlin boss Stefan Leitl has multiple availability issues to deal with. John Brooks (Ankle injury), Jeremy Dudziak (Adductor injury), Bilal Hussein (Ankle injury) and Pascal Klemens (Head injury) will not be playing here.

🔮 Prediction

We envisage that Hertha Berlin will manage to breach the defence of this Cologne lineup, however it is unlikely to be enough to avoid defeat.

Our selection here is for a very close game with a 2-1 win for Cologne after 90 minutes. Should be an interesting one.

Andre Moura, 18:04 05/04/2025