In a weekend match in week 23, on Saturday Feb 27th, Bayern München will host Köln in a clash of the Bundesliga. Bayern München is fresh off their 4-1 win against Lazio. Robert Lewandowski struck first for Bayern München in the 9th minute, then Jamal Musiala added another in the 24th minute. Bayern München is on a hot streak lately, having won 8 of their last 10, while 14th placed Köln is fresh off their 0-1 loss against Stuttgart. Sasa Kalajdzic struck first for Stuttgart in the 49th minute on a feed from Sosa, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else In the end, Köln couldn’t muster any offence and Stuttgart ran away with the shutout win. Köln is looking for direction having 3 win and 5 losses in their last 10 matches.
On Oct 31st, Köln hosted Bayern München at the Rheinenergiestadion in their last match together. Bayern München was victorious by a score of 2 to 1 in front of an empty stadium. Thomas Müller scored the first goal for Bayern München in the 13th minute from the penalty spot, then Serge Gnabry added another in the 1st minute of the first half’s stoppage time on a feed from Joshua Kimmich.
Köln’s most prolific scorer has been Elvis Rexhbecaj. He has netted three goals over the last 5 matches. Bayern München is fortunate enough to have Robert Lewandowski in top form. In the last 5 matches the attacker has scored 4 goals
Bayern München will be without Serge Gnabry, Thomas Müller, Benjamin Pavard, Leon Goretzka, Javi Martínez, Corentin Tolisso and Alexander Nübel, while Köln will be without Florian Kainz, Kingsley Ehizibue, Marius Wolf, Sebastiaan Bornauw, Ismail Jakobs and Jonas Hector.