Week 1 brings us a match on Aug 7th, where Schalke 04 and Köln will play a match in Cologne in a meeting of these two mismatched Bundesliga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 25 degrees, which is great football weather. Köln sits at 7th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 2-2 draw against Jahn Regensburg. Andreas Albers Nielsen struck first for Jahn Regensburg in the 18th minute on a feed from Leon Guwara, then Prince-Osei Owusu added another in the 27th minute. Köln looks to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 9 points in their last 10 matches, while schalke 04 is fresh off their 5-0 blowout win against Bremer SV. Rodrigo Zalazar Martínez struck first for Schalke 04 in the 2nd minute on a feed from Tobias Mohr, then Dominick Drexler added another in the 12th minute on a feed from Thomas Ouwejan At the end of 90 a dissapointed Bremer SV couldn’t manage to score, and Schalke 04 took the shutout win. Schalke 04 is looking for direction having earned 12 points in their last 10 matches.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season, so it will be interesting how the match turns out.
Both Marcin Kamiński and Dominick Drexler have been the hottest scorers for Schalke 04 in the last five each having scored 2 goals each. Lemperle has been the most prolific scorer on Köln in the last five matches with 3 goals.