FC Cologne vs. Hoffenheim Match Preview, Predictions & Tips 21/04/2017

The Match Is Over. Score: 1-1

FC Cologne vs. Hoffenheim Match Preview:

The Bundesliga presents its following round 30 action when on Friday night, 21th April 2017, "RheinEnergieStadion" in Cologne is set to host another league match-up facing the sides of FC Cologne and Hoffenheim. Follow our Predictions & Match Preview on this encounter between FC Cologne and Hoffenheim to grow your bankroll with the given winning bet tips.

Match status: GERMANY: Bundesliga - Round 30
Kick-off: Friday 21 Apr 2017, 07:30pm GMT
Venue: "RheinEnergieStadion" in Cologne, Germany

FC Cologne: Team News

"The Billy Goats" failed to win a pack of 3 points when at the last weekends they made a trip to Augsburg, losing to the hosts 2-1 at evens. That defeat followed a 2-3 loss to Monchengladbach earlier, so Peter Stoger's team has been beyond none of the points in their last two outings. As for their position in the standings, Cologne club bases on the seventh line, with just one unit stepping behind SC Freiburg, who are hosting an encounter against Bayer Leverkusen these football weekends. Thus "The Goats" might possibly get into the prize zone.

Hoffenheim: Team News

"Die Kraichgauer" were able to regain the lost points to Hamburger SV by beating Monchengladbach 5-3 six days ago. The loss where they had dropped their seven-match unbeaten run. Anyway, Julian Nagelsmann's collective remains in the top 3 and are a few points more guaranteed to proceed with their performance in the Champions league next season; The question only if it would be a direct promotion to the group stage, or through qualification.

Possible starting lineups of the teams:

FC Cologne: Timo Horn - Jonas Hector, Dominique Heintz, Neven Subotic, Pawel Olkowski - Leonardo Bittencourt, Matthias Lehmann, Marco Hoger, Christian Clemens - Anthony Modeste, Yuya Osako (4-4-2 formation)

Hoffenheim: Oliver Baumann - Niklas Sule, Kevin Vogt, Ermin Bicakcic - Jeremy Toljan, Nadiem Amiri, Sebastian Rudy, Kerem Demirbay, Steven Zuber - Sandro Wagner, Andrej Kramaric (3-5-2 formation)

Missing players of FC Cologne and Hoffenheim:

FC Cologne: Marcel Risse, Sehrou Guirassy, Simon Zoller.

Hoffenheim: Benjamin Hubner.

FC Cologne - Hoffenheim Head-to-Head Stats:

Within this ongoing season the teams have met twice when they held a league game and a DFB Pokal 1/16 finals tie. Firstly, it was the Cup game that finished 2-1 in Cologne's favour, but the win was achieved only in the extra times after 1-1 in regular time and awarded them to qualify for the round of 16. About a month later they were expected to meet for the points in the Bundesliga competition. Hosted by Hoffenheim, the match score convincingly favoured a 4-0 victory to the home side.

Interesting facts and streaks:

Hoffenheim are undefeated in 26 of their last 29 matches (Bundesliga).
FC Cologne have conceded at least 2 goals in 7 of their last 8 matches (Bundesliga).
FC Cologne are undefeated in their last 5 home matches against Hoffenheim in all competitions.

Conclusion and Match Preview:

The main threat to Hoffenheim from the hosts is surely to be French striker Anthony Modeste, who has netted the goal for 23 times so far, whereas the entire amount of his goals can be covered by two forwards of Hoffenheim - Sandro Wagner and Andrej Kramaric, who have scored 23 goals for two, amounting to 11 and 12 each respectively.

Also the two sides aim for the Euro cups, even though the visitors are supposed to have already been added to the UEFA Champions league list next season. Getting closer to a probable outcome of this game, we find both of them rather strong performers to tighten the upcoming game to earn all points. From our perspective, it will be a match with goals at both sides, since we have such efficient goalscorers, but the final score will be even.