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André Silva was successful again against Cologne
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Thomas Frey / dpa
Eintracht Frankfurt continued their winning streak in the Bundesliga on matchday 21.
Adi Hütter's team beat 1. FC Köln 2-0 (0-0) thanks to their goal scorer André Silva and are now third in the table.
However, VfL Wolfsburg can still overtake them in the early evening.
In the first half you could tell the hosts showed their confidence from the previous weeks.
They dominated the game and failed to take advantage of several good chances, especially through their goal scorer Silva.
The Cologne team were still on the defensive and struggled to take one or the other action forward.
Overall, the Cologne team, who have already won 15 times in the history of the Bundesliga, were too harmless.
Eintracht coach Hütter also left his noble Joker Luka Jović, the returnee from Real Madrid, on the bench for the second half.
He only came into play in the 70th minute.
By then, half-time had already become the new Silva show.
Initially, the Portuguese had missed a high percentage scoring chance when he freely placed the header in the arms of Cologne keeper Tino Horn in front of the goal.
Two minutes later, Silva converted a Kostic cross to the goal, but the setter's ball had already been out of the goal and the goal was rightly not counted.
In the third attempt it worked.
A nice combination of Kostic and Durm landed in the 57th minute at Silva, who lifted the ball over Horn to take the lead.
It was the striker's 18th goal of the season.
As a result, the Cologne team became a little more awake and had a dangerous long-range shot from Emmanuel Dennis.
Ten minutes before the final whistle, the Frankfurt team reacted and made everything clear with a header from Evan N'Dicka after a Kostic corner.
For Cologne, the defeat means a setback after the derby win in Mönchengladbach, but the gap to the relegation place is still four points.
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