📏 Form Guide

Cologne

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Cologne will play in this fixture coming off the back of a 2-2 Bundesliga drawn result versus Union Berlin.

In that game, Cologne had 42% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. For Cologne, the scorers were Marius Bülter (33') and Saïd El Mala (61'). At the other end, Union Berlin had 13 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Tom Rothe (73') and Livan Burcu (89') scored for Union Berlin.

Fixtures with Cologne have proved to be lively affairs recently with a lot of goalmouth action being a common characteristic. Over their past six clashes alone, the sum of 23 goals have been recorded for both teams combined (at an average of 3.83 goals per game) with 12 of those being chalked up by Cologne. Nonetheless, time will tell if such a trend might be replicated in this next match.

Ahead of this meeting, Cologne have not won against Heidenheim in their previous 3 league matches.

Heidenheim

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Last time out, Heidenheim drew 3-3 in the Bundesliga tie with Bayern Munich.

In as many as 5 out of the previous 6 games featuring Heidenheim, three or more goals have gone in. The overall average goals scored per game in that time is 4.17, with the number of goals averaged by Heidenheim coming out as 2.33.

Coming into this clash, Heidenheim haven’t won away from home in the past 10 matches in the league. Very poor, indeed.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 26/10/2010 tells us that Cologne have won 2 of these games and Heidenheim 1, with the tally of drawn results standing at 3.

An aggregate of 18 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 10 from Köln and 8 coming from Heidenheim. That’s an average goals per game of 3.

The previous league fixture between these sides was Bundesliga match day 16 on 10/01/2026 when it finished Heidenheim 2-2 Cologne.

That time, Heidenheim had 55% possession and 14 shots at goal with 6 on target. Goals were scored by Marvin Pieringer (15') and Julian Niehues (26').

Cologne got 21 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. Eric Martel (18') and Saïd El Mala (48') scored.

The match was refereed by Robert Schröder.

ℹ️ Team News: Cologne

It’s our opinion that Köln should use a 4-2-3-1 system for this one and select Marvin Schwaebe, Sebastian Sebulonsen, Jahmai Simpson-Pusey, Cenk Ozkacar, Dominique Heintz, Tom Krauss, Joel Schmied, G. Waldschmidt, Jakub Kaminski, Marius Buelter and A. Castro-Montes.

🗞️ Team News: Heidenheim

We reckon that Heidenheim seem likely to play in a 5-3-2 formation, giving starts to Diant Ramaj, Jan Schoeppner, Patrick Mainka, Omar Traore, Marnon-Thomas Busch, Hennes Behrens, Eren Dinkci, Marvin Pieringer, Niklas Dorsch, Arijon Ibrahimovic and Budu Zivzivadze.

💡 Prediction

Our thinking is that Heidenheim certainly have the ability to score a goal against this Cologne outfit, but that realistically won’t be enough to prevent defeat.

We’re going for a close game with a 2-1 winning score for Cologne after 90 minutes. There looks to be little in this one.

Peter Guest, 15:03 10/05/2026