1. FC Köln: Will Timo Horns play the last Cologne game? – Bundesliga
Cologne’s goalkeeping comeback against Frankfurt. Timo Horn (28) is back in the box today (6:30 p.m.) for the first time since November 21, 2021 (1-1 against Mainz). And it could be the last FC compulsory game for the vice-captain…
The starting position: In January, coach Steffen Baumgart (50) declared Marvin Schwäbe (26) to be the new number 1. Horn today only because he is out with a corona infection. After that Baumgart builds nobody back on Schwäbe, made it clear: “I am the one who constantly turns and turns.”
For Horn, this means that if Schwäbe doesn’t injure himself in the final spurt of the season, he only has one game left before he has to decide in the summer whether he wants to start the fight for the goal job again and extend his contract, which expires in 2023, or join FC 20 years left.
The fact is: the number 1 change is not easy for Horn. Baumgart: “Many underestimate what happens in such situations to someone who has had a permanent place for ten years.”
For that reason alone, a summer farewell is likely. After 200 league games, Horn has the right to be a regular goalkeeper in the Bundesliga. That’s exactly what he will want to prove against Eintracht today – his own coach and the clubs that could be considered from the summer.
► The backdrop for a possible farewell game is not lavish: yesterday the Münster Higher Administrative Court smashed the FC lawsuit and demand from 25,000 fans. The Constitutional Court did not correct the verdict either. It stays at 10,000 spectators…