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At the end of matchday eight, Union Berlin won 2-1 in Cologne, thus aggravating the crisis of the Gisdol team. FC are still waiting for their first win since March.
With the carnival shirt, the 1. FC Köln set three bad records in its long Bundesliga history and was subsequently hit in a relegation zone by Max Kruse. The Cologne team lost 1: 2 (1: 1) on Matchday 8 to the significantly weakened surprise team of 1. FC Union Berlin and is now penultimate. The loud chants of the fans, which a handful of fans around the south bend through a large black speaker inside the stadium, didn’t help either.
With 18 games in a row without a win, FC set the club’s negative record in two seasons, 19 times in a row without conceding, the Cologne team had conceded goals only in 1974, ten home games in a row without a win were only in the 2005/06 season. And next week FC will have to go to Borussia Dortmund.
By contrast, the Berlin iron continued to rally unimpressed by serious injury concerns and consolidated into fifth place. The winning goal was curious. Ineffective former Kruse missed a penalty in the 17th attempt for the first time in the Bundesliga and missed the only Bundesliga record. But he sank the margin for the winning goal (72nd). Taiwo Awoniyi, on loan from England champions Liverpool FC and team manager Jürgen Klopp, had given Union the lead with his first Bundesliga goal (27th). Ellyes Skhiri equalized in the meantime (36th). The Union are four points behind leaders FC Bayern Munich.
The pressure on Köln had already increased before kick-off, as Mainz’s 3-1 win in Freiburg had lifted FC to 17th place. And he almost fell behind early when Marcus Ingvartsen went free in front of Timo Horn after a seemingly failed offside, but lifted the ball over the goal. The Union had to do without established players such as Christian Gentner, Joel Pohjanpalo, Keita Endo, Nico Schlotterbeck or Marius Bülter and Sebastian Griesbeck had to come out injured after just under half an hour.
At this point, the visitors, who only won both games against Cologne last year, were already in the lead on Awoniyi’s goal, which exploited a misunderstanding between Marius Wolf and Rafael Czichos. A diving header from Skhiri after an Ondrej Duda free-kick brought FC back into play before half-time.
Even after the change, it remained a game on a manageable level. Significant for this: both former unionist Sebastian Andersson, who entered the game in the center of the storm in Cologne, and the last strong offensive strategist of Berlin Kruse, in which FC also had a free interest before the season, did not they have practically seen each other. But then Kruse became the winner of the match.
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