1860 München - 1.FC Köln

1860 started well and was under the top 5 for long time but in the past they showed some weakness and fall down in the table. They got only 4 out of 15 and in this case they are in some crisis. Coach Maurer has not many players who can replaced equal and in this case some of them are a bit tired. Also they had some signings who disappointed a lot. Above all Blanco, who played not often and scored no goal so far. Ok, they won the last match in Frankfurt by FSV but it was very very lucky. They scored a lucky goal and thanks to keeper Kiraly who had an excellent day and saved them many times. If they want to climb a bit in the table or hold the distance to third place they have to win this encounter. At home with 3-2-1 and 10-4 goals not bad but with bad results in the past. Normally they are hard to beat in Allianz Arena and they conceded not much, 3 goals from the above mentioned 4 came in the last two matches. I think this said all at the moment. Maybe they worked on the problems during the week and they can stop it. We will see.

While Köln played good football at least to the beginning of the season, it is more than awful at the moment. Above all their last matches against Aalen 0-2 and Duisburg 0-0 where they were one man more over at least 70 minutes but created nothing and played more or less to slow. Without any ideas it bordered on a playful revelation. Almost all their attacks are played without any pace and without creativity. Sure it is not always possible against deep standing opponents but as a club with such high ambitions we should expect much more. As we saw against Worms, they are very weak at the moment and they had huge problems to create something and their chances was more or less random. In this case we have to expect some changes for the match against 1860 Munich. Coach Stanislawski wants to bring more activity in his team action and for this maybe Jajalo gets a chance again but he failed often in the past. But he trained very good this week and should get a chance from beginning on, the second one maybe is Ishak who trained also well. It is not out yet if Stanislawski plays again with 3 mens on sixer position or gets more offensive focused. The only good thing maybe they are not the favorite in this match and they can go for counter attacks, for the first time. Maybe it is better for them as they can react more and get more space then.

No important missings on both sides but both a bit out of form. Very important would be which team take the lead in this one and if any side leads it would be very hard for the other side to strike back.

I let this one open until a few minutes before kick off and decide then if I take a bet on any team here. Let's see what happen :-)