1. FC Köln is confident before the Bundesliga relegation, Holstein Kiel looks worn down after the playful direct promotion.
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Cologne - upside-down emotional world before relegation: Most of the time, the Bundesliga team goes into the play-offs with trembling knees and fear of relegation, while the second division lurks euphorically for their chance of promotion. At 1. FC Köln * and Holstein Kiel, the emotional situation is different before the first duel on Wednesday (6.30 p.m. / DAZN): The Bundesliga club from Cologne sees the relegation after the final spurt from the direct relegation ranks as a gift. After the playful direct ascent and an ultra-tough program last month, the Kielers run mentally and physically on the rim.
Cologne coach Friedhelm Funkel is living out pure self-confidence after the saving 1-0 win against Schalke.
He was "convinced that we can do it".
In the two-game extension of his long career, the 67-year-old can finally become Cologne's savior if he keeps the billy goats in the Bundesliga *.
1. FC Köln against Holstein Kiel in the Bundesliga relegation in the live ticker: "Extremely bitter"
Funkel's colleague Ole Werner (33), who was not even half his age, looked so worn down after the final 3-2 defeat against Darmstadt, as if it was all over.
“That is extremely bitter.
A lot has happened in the mind.
Now it's about regenerating physically and mentally, ”said the coach, whose team had to play eight competitive games in 29 days after double quarantine.
The advancement project * in Kiel is made more difficult by the personal situation.
While at the Störchen with Alexander Mühling and Jonas Meffert two top performers in the central midfield are suspended for the first leg in Cologne, at FC with Ellyes Skhiri and Ismail Jakobs two important players return after suspension.
Cologne receives Kiel for the Bundesliga relegation: Arrogance against the now-all-in-all mood?
Only arrogance remains with the favorites as Cologne danger and Kiel chance: “We can't expect them to be down.
We are preparing for a now-all-in-all mood at Kiel, ”said Funkel.
The veteran also does not want to rely on the statistics, according to which the first division team has prevailed seven times in the past eight years.
The storks, who want to become Schleswig-Holstein's first Bundesliga team *, are meanwhile nestling in the role of blatant outsiders.
"We were always strongest when no one put a damn on us," said Werner.
As clearly as now, this was the case at most in the cup games against Bayern and Dortmund this season.
But the Kielers even won one of them.
(dpa)
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