Borussia Monchengladbach vs FC Cologne Preview: Team News & Prediction

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Both these two clubs secured big wins last weekend, ramping up the anticipation for this match.

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Borussia Monchengladbach preview: Off the bottom

Borussia Monchengladbach moved off the bottom of the Bundesliga table last weekend after becoming the final team in the German top flight to win a league game this season. It was an emphatic victory as well, thrashing St. Pauli by four goals to nil away from home, boosting their goal difference.

That result took them all the way from bottom of the table into 16th-place and out of the automatic relegation places, an indication of how early in the season it still is and how close the table is bunched together down at the bottom.

FC Cologne preview: Hamburg hammered

FC Cologne made a statement against fellow newly promoted side Hamburg last weekend, taking them down by four goals to one. That win was enough to leapfrog Eintracht Frankfurt, (who dropped points away at Heidenheim) and move inside the top eight.

Lukas Kwasniok’s men will do doubt see this as an excellent opportunity even if Gladbach were resounding winners last weekend as well. Taking on a team who has won just one of nine league games so far this season cannot be ignored.

Borussia Monchengladbach team news: No key returns

Robin Hack, Tim Kleindienst and Nathan Ngoumou remain unavailable for Borussia Monchengladbach through injury and the hosts are hit further by the suspension of Jens Castrop.

Predicted XI: (3-5-2): Nicolas; Sander, Elvedi, Diks; Scally, Reitz, Engelhardt, Neuhaus, Ullrich; Machino, Tabakovic

Unavailable: Castrop (Suspended), Chiarodia (Injured), Hack (Injured), Kleindienst (Injured), Ngoumou (Injured)

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FC Cologne team news: Four on treatment table

FC Cologne are missing up to four players for their trip to Gladbach, those being Timo Hubers, fellow centre-back Luca Kilian, forward Jan Thielmann and versatile defender Sepp Van den Berg.

Predicted XI: (3-4-3): Schwabe; Schmied, Martel, Ozkacar; Sebulonsen, Johannesson, Huseinbasic, Lund; Kaminski, Ache, El Mala

Unavailable: Hubers (Injured), Kilian (Injured), Thielmann (Injured), Van den Berg (Injured)

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Borussia Monchengladbach vs FC Cologne prediction

Having been hugely boosted by that crucial and emphatic win over St. Pauli, it’s so important now that Borussia Monchengladbach can back that up with another positive result here. But FC Cologne looked really good against Hamburg, also scoring four goals and are more than capable of breaking through what remains one of the leakiest backlines in the league.

The attacking prowess of both of these two teams in the previous found of fixtures and the new-found confidence of both frontlines leads us to believe that we could be in for an entertaining affair. With chances expected at both ends of the pitch, consider backing both teams to find the net at least once.

Borussia Monchengladbach vs FC Cologne tip: Both teams to score