#TSGKOE: Confident mood ahead of second half-season

Did you know that…

…1. FC Cologne are among TSG's favourite foes in the Bundesliga?

TSG Hoffenheim have won all of their last five Bundesliga meetings with 1. FC Cologne – their longest ongoing winning run against any club in the German top flight. In addition, the men from the Cathedral City have a points average of 0.95 against Hoffenheim – their worst against Bundesliga clubs that they have faced at least 15 times.

…Hoffenheim could equal a club record in the match against Cologne?

TSG have kept clean sheets in both of their last two Bundesliga matches – against Arminia Bielefeld and Hertha BSC. If they do not concede against 1. FC Cologne, coach Sebastian Hoeness and his side will equal the club record of three consecutive shutouts set in 2009.

…1. FC Cologne have started the second half of Bundesliga campaigns well recently?

In each of the last three years, the Billy Goats have won their first match in the second half of a Bundesliga season. That's a club record for 1. FC Cologne. The last time that the men from the Cathedral City were away in their first second half-season match in the top flight was 2016/17, when they won 6-1 at Darmstadt 98.

…Andrej Kramarić has scored more goals than ever before in the first half of a Bundesliga season?

The forward found the net 10 times during the first half of the 2020/21 campaign, having previously never scored more than six goals in the opening 17 rounds. Only Vedad Ibišević (18 goals in 2008/09) has netted more often for TSG in the first half of a Bundesliga season than Andrej Kramarić.

…1. FC Cologne are especially effective from set-pieces?

Coach Markus Gisdol's men have scored 40% of their goals this season (6/15) from dead ball situations. No other team in the Bundesliga has been as reliant on set-pieces for goals as the men from Cologne this term. The Rhinelanders have scored only nine goals from open play – the lowest tally in the division.

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