11th matchday: A used day: Cologne experiences 0:5 debacle in Mainz – football
1. FC Köln lost 5-0 at home to FSV Mainz 05, who were previously unbeaten at home. The Cologne fans still celebrate their pros with minute-long chants.
Frankfurt/Main – The fans of 1. FC Köln celebrated their unemotional football professionals who marched in front of the stands like winners. They suffered a bitter 5-0 (3-0) defeat at FSV Mainz 05 in the Bundesliga game and experienced a “Friday night to forget” as the title on the match report homepage reads.
“We didn’t play a good game overall.
“That was a game I’ll check off very quickly,” said the coach. They got “5: 0 on the ass”: “Unfortunately that’s part of football. It hurts us, but we have to get through it.” Luca Kilian’s double fault was decisive for the game. First he caused a penalty by a foul on Karim Onisiwo, which Marcus Ingvartsen (11th minute) converted to the lead, then he attacked Onisiwo (28th) a second time and had to leave the field after a yellow-red card. “The yellow-red card was the next slap in the neck,” including Baumgart.
Penalty causes trouble
The hosts used the majority game to score four goals through Dominik Kohr (35′), Anton Stach (40′), Aaron (73′) and Onisiwo. “A completely used evening for us today. We just made too many mistakes that you can’t afford at this level,” complained Cologne’s sporting director Thomas Kessler. However, he not only complained about his own poor performance, but also about an alleged illegal execution of the penalty. The Dane Ingvartsen is said to have “demonstrably touched the ball twice” – with his standing leg. “And I honestly ask myself why that isn’t seen in Cologne,” said Kessler.
However, the video referee did not intervene. “The assumption is probably justified. We also put a magnifying glass on it. We looked at it 100 times in Cologne,” said DFB project manager Jochen Drees on the Internet broadcaster DAZN. “The colleagues did it very meticulously, but could not prove beyond a doubt that it is the case.” Baumgart did not want to join the criticism of his sports manager: “The penalty was called, but it was not decisive for the game. 0: 5 is very clearly.”