“It will be a difficult Bundesliga game because there are no easy ones. A great stadium and great fans await us in Cologne – the atmosphere will be great. We face a team that defends passionately and in a structured manner. They make the rooms narrow and don’t allow much.
The football below Timo Schultz hasn’t changed fundamentally compared to its predecessor, but it’s perhaps not quite as wild as it was at the front Baumi (Steffen Baumgart). They continue to be very well organized. The boys work well against the ball. It’s a team that defines itself through short passes, but also throws in a long ball every now and then. They want to use their speed on the wings and have good transition players in their ranks.
They also bring a lot of footballing solutions with the ball. We need a very good performance and we have to solve all the challenges that they will pose to us. We’ll have to wait and see whether Davie Selke can play, then we also have a topic with crosses and headers. We know from the past that we have to throw everything into Cologne if we want to get three points. And victory is our clear goal.”