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Before on Wednesday the big hit Bayern vs.. Dortmund takes place in the Allianz Arena, the first four participants of the DFB Pokal quarter-final will be selected on Tuesday. One of a total of five Bundesliga matches takes place in Gelsenkirchen. Schalke 04 receives there the 1. FC Cologne and both teams go with a broad chest in this game. Cologne celebrated with the first victory of the season in the Bundesliga on the weekend of the great liberation and Royal Blue was able to maintain the undefeated series by a last-minute goal by Naldo in Frankfurt. Now his victory in the cup competition and a quiet Christmas would be nothing in the way. As clear as this match looks purely from the bare numbers, it could be so exciting at the end. Not only the old football saying “The cup has its own laws” should give the outsiders from the Rhineland courage, but also the fact that they were recently the Schalke in the league at 2: 2 a leg. This is also the main reason why betting on the tip Double Chance X / 2 also on Tuesday have good chances of success.
Schalke :
Things that went awry for Effzeh this season have been more than just round at FC Schalke 04. Despite the noise in the summer after the change of coach to Domenico Tedesco and the departure of former captain Benedikt Höwedes S04 has settled in the table at the top and winters in a Champions League place. Tedesco has earned the respect by now and has managed to form a strong unity of experienced players like a Naldo and young savages like a Harit. With this mixture Schalke can now show a series of twelve games in series, in which they were not defeated.
The big highlight was clearly the historic 4: 4 after 0: 4-break at BVB. The performances of the Royal Blues are usually not very spectacular, but very concentrated and clarified. Despite all the positive numbers and facts, it should not be forgotten that four out of the last five games ended in a draw and also the only victory in this time (3: 2 against Augsburg) succeeded rather happily. So Schalke is by no means invincible and can not rest on its laurels. Against Cologne, the Tedesco-Elf must go to the limit again, if they do not want to accept a damper shortly before Christmas.
FC Koln:
From Hamburg to Munich you heard the stones that fell on the Cologne fans on Saturday evening from the heart. In the last game of the first round, the goats finally managed the long-awaited first win of the season 1-0 at home against VfL Wolfsburg. This Stefan Stefan Ruthenbeck has managed in his third game as head coach, what Peter Stöger before it over half a year did not succeed. The interim solution has thus also been recommended for longer-term tasks and it seems as if they would fully engage players with the new boss on the Rhine. Now a success in the cup at FC Schalke 04 and the calendar year 2017 would still be conciliatory end for the Domstädter.
So far, this year was a purely roller coaster ride with the entry into the Europa League and the big crash in this series. But most recently, the team seemed to have stabilized and especially abroad it makes life difficult for the opponents with an orderly defensive formation. Even though the overall yield is not necessarily high, Cologne has almost always sold at a high price. Of the last nine games in a foreign country, the Effzeh lost not a single game with more than one goal behind. With the self-confidence of the weekend’s victory, the guests will take this momentum to Gelsenkirchen and they will not have anything to lose in second place anyway.
Schalke vs FC Koln head to head matches
02.12.17 BUN Schalke FC Koln 2 : 2
19.02.17 BUN FC Koln Schalke 1 : 1
21.09.16 BUN Schalke FC Koln 1 : 3
05.03.16 BUN FC Koln Schalke 1 : 3
04.10.15 BUN Schalke FC Koln 0 : 3