Live ticker: 1. FC Köln vs. Eintracht Frankfurt – Bundesliga top game on Saturday, February 19th
Eintracht Frankfurt will play next-door neighbors 1. FC Köln on Saturday (6:30 p.m., heaven) bring in important points in the fight for the European Cup places. After the home defeat against VfL Wolfsburg last week, coach Oliver Glasner is waiting for more efficiency in the offensive game. “The players invest a lot to get into the final situations. We have to work this punch back,” said the Austrian before the game. In the first half of the season, Frankfurt and Cologne drew 1-1.
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In the absence of his competitor Marvin Schwäbe, Timo Horn temporarily returns to the goal at FC. The 28-year-old received a lot of support from coach Steffen Baumgart in the run-up to the game: “In terms of how he behaves, as a professional and as a person, Timo is a role model,” said Baumgart about the native of Cologne, who died shortly after an injury had lost a regular place: “Many people from the outside underestimate what happens to someone who has had a permanent place for ten years.”
Live ticker: 1. FC Köln vs. Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday, February 19
Instead, after several legal defeats for hosts Cologne, the game has to take place in front of 10,000 spectators in the Rheinenergie Stadium. In the last instance, a complaint by FC on Friday evening before the Constitutional Court of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia was unsuccessful. The constitutional judge rejected the issuance of an interim order against the order for 10,000 spectators at football games by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The decision was made by four to three votes, as stated in a statement in the evening without giving a reason.