📊 Form Guide

Cologne

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Cologne enter this match following on from a 2-2 Bundesliga drawn game vs Heidenheim.

In that match, Cologne had 45% possession and 21 shots at goal with 9 of them on target. For Cologne, goals were scored by Eric Martel (18') and Saïd El Mala (48'). Heidenheim had 14 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Marvin Pieringer (15') and Julian Niehues (26') scored for Heidenheim.

It has not been often in recent games where Cologne have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Cologne have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 games, leaking 11 goals along the way.

Pre-game facts show that Cologne:

• haven't won against Bayern Munich in their last 20 matches in the league. What a terrible run without a win that has been.
• haven’t won at home in the past 3 matches in the league.

Bayern Munich

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Bayern Munich come into this match following on from a 8-1 Bundesliga win to defeat VfL Wolfsburg in their previous match.

In as many as 6 of the previous 6 games featuring Bayern Munich, a minimum of three goals have been hit. The average goals scored per match during that spell is 4.17, with the average number of goals for Bayern Munich standing at 3.17. That sort of pattern isn’t assured to be continued into this next game, though.

Analysis of their past results shows that Bayern Munich:

• are undefeated by Cologne when they have played them away from home in the previous 10 matches in the league. It doesn't get much better than that.
• are unbeaten in their last 16 league matches away from home. What a run it has been.

↔️ Head to head

A study of their past head to head results going back to 15/01/2022 tells us that these encounters have not been fruitful for Cologne. They’ve not managed to come away with any wins at all while Bayern Munich have dominated them, winning in 83 per cent of those matches.

17 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 3 of them from Köln and 14 being from Bayern. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

🗞️ Team News: Cologne

It’s our opinion that Köln may well use a 3-4-3 system for the game, utilising Marvin Schwaebe, Sebastian Sebulonsen, Eric Martel, Jahmai Simpson-Pusey, Jan Thielmann, Tom Krauss, Denis Huseinbasic, A. Castro-Montes, Florian Kainz, Ragnar Ache and Jakub Kaminski.

🗞️ Team News: Bayern Munich

We reckon that Bayern appear most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 system, going with Manuel Neuer, Konrad Laimer, Dayot Upamecano, Jonathan Tah, Josip Stanisic, Tom Bischof, Aleksandar Pavlovic, Michael Olise, Lennart Karl, Luis Diaz and Harry Kane.

💡 Prediction

We envisage that Bayern Munich can create a good amount of chances and successful shots on target.

At the same time, Cologne might well find it a difficult task to score but we can see them converting at least once as well.

We can therefore see a controlled 1-3 margin for Bayern Munich come full-time.

Victor Martins, 05:05 12/01/2026