Looking for a place in the qualifying zone for the 2024/2025 Champions League, Leipzig faces Koln making a step in the dangerous region this Friday, March 15th. It is the first match of the twenty-sixth round of the German Championship in its 2023/2024 edition. It will be held at the Rhein Energie Stadion in Cologne.
Koln vs RB Leipzig Betting Odds
Koln | Draw | RB Leipzig |
+500 | +360 | -235 |
**Odds Courtesy of DraftKings**
Koln vs RB Leipzig Team Match Details
Fixture: Koln vs RB Leipzig;
Date and time: Wednesday, March 12, 2004 – 8 p.m. local
Location: Rhein Energie Stadion in Cologne
Apex Tale of the Tape
Koln | vs. | RB Leipzig |
25 | Games Played | 25 |
3- 9- 13 | Record (W-D-L) | 14- 4- 7 |
3 | Clean Sheets | 8 |
0.76 | Goals Per Game | 2.20 |
0.30 | Goals 1H/G | 0.96 |
0.48 | Goals 2h/G | 1.24 |
12.04 | Shots Per Game | 16.00 |
4.16 | Shots on goal Per Game | 6.72 |
1.68 | Goals against Per Game | 1.24 |
0.64 | Goals against 1H/G | 0.56 |
1.04 | Goals against 2H/G | 0.68 |
11.80 | Fouls Committed Per Game | 10.24 |
11.16 | Fouls Drawn Per Game | 12.80 |
Key Stats
- RB Leipzig have scored in 92% of their away matches this season.
- RB Leipzig have scored in 88% of their matches this season.
- Scored the most goals in the time frame between 61-75,46-60 minutes this season.
- FC Koln has scored most of its goals in the time frame between 76-90 minutes this season.
Koln
Koln has shown improvement in the German Championship after the tournament’s winter break. Of the nine rounds played in 2024, he scored in six. Victory, he only got one. Insufficient score to leave the relegation zone. With 18 points (three wins, nine draws, and 13 losses), they are in the sixteenth – second to last – position in the dispute.
The difference is seven points compared to Bochum, fifteenth placed and first team outside the bottom three. Given his scoring standard, it seems unlikely that he will be able to leave the ‘fundão group’. Therefore, the only viable way to avoid being dispatched by Bundesliga 2 is to seek to maintain the current position. It allows you to compete in the repechage against the third-placed team in the Second Division and, in this way, avoid each other. They have two points above Mainz, the penultimate place.
RB Leipzig
This Friday’s battle with Koln will be the second match in a row against a team that is in the relegation zone. On Saturday, March 9, counting on the possibility of playing at the Red Bull Arena, they beat Darmstad, bottom of the Bundesliga, 2-0. A modest score given their great offensive production. Created 28 chances to finish. He sent eight on target.
He reached the mark of 46 points (14 wins, four draws, and seven defeats). In a round in which all the top six places won their commitments, Leipzig did not leave fifth place. They are one point below Borussia Dortmund, who in fourth place closes the region that opens the way to participate in the next edition of the Champions League.
Koln vs RB Leipzig Possible XI
Koln
Marvin Schwabe, Rasmus Carstensen, Luca Kilian, Julian Chabot, Max Finkgräfe, Eric Martel, Denis Huseinbašić, Faride Alidou, Florian Kainz, Sargis Adamyan, Davie Selke
Coach: Timo Schultz
Leipzig
Peter Gulacsi, Benjamin Henrichs, Mohamed Simakan, Willi Orban, David Raum, Dani Olmo, Amadou Haidara, Xaver Schlager, Xavi Simons, Benjamin Sesko, Loïs Openda
Coach: Marco Rose
Match Prediction
Eliminated in the round of 16 of the Champions League by Real Madrid, Leipzig now only has the German Championship on its agenda until the end of the season. With no real possibility of fighting for the title, entry into the G4, the block that leads to the most important club competition on the continent, is the goal to be achieved. Koln is in a very delicate situation. It will be difficult to leave the relegation zone.
Final Pick
RB Leipzig win: -235