The German team, coached by Baumgart, has one goal and one goal only: to win by a large margin in order to make next week’s trip to Hungary a carefree end-of-August outing. By taking to the pitch with the right mentality, the hosts could quickly put an end to the qualification discussion and concentrate solely on the league, in which they have picked up four points in the first two matches, following their opening win against Schalke and a valuable away draw at Leipzig.
In a nutshell, and without going too far into it, a Cologne victory against a team that has reached this point of qualification by overcoming Petroclub in the last round played, both home and away, seems quite possible, if not certain. Of course, two teams that on paper are almost equivalent: in fact, when the level rises a little, the MOL cannot maintain any consistency in results. In the last round of the championship in fact they took four goals from Ferencvaros.
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The Prediction
An easy win for Cologne, who will have secured qualification by the end of the first leg. At least a three-goal match with the feeling that only the home side can find the way to the net.
Cologne-MOL Fehervar
Cologne-MOL Fehervar
Cologne’s likely line-up
COLONIA (4-2-3-1): Schwabe; Ehizibue, Kilian, Hubers, Hector; Martel, Skhiri; Thielmann, Ljubicic, Kainz; Dietz.
MOL FEHERVAR (5-2-3): Kovacs; Nego, Fiola, Shabanov, Stopira, Heister; Bumba, Pinto; Dardai, Kodro, Petryak.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 4-0
