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Cheers, hustle and bustle.
Carnival can come
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IMAGO/UWE KRAFT / IMAGO/Uwe Kraft
Thanks to an inspiring first half, 1. FC Köln overwhelmed opponents Werder Bremen at the start of the year.
After 35 minutes, Cologne was already leading 5:0, in the end it was 7:1 (5:1).
Almost every counterattack by Cologne in the first 45 minutes ended in a goal.
The 3:0 was particularly spectacular.
Stefan Tigges almost scored from the halfway line and duped Werder goalkeeper Jiří Pavlenka, who fell far out of his goal.
Even before that, the Cologne team had benefited from serious defensive errors by Bremen.
Before Linton Maina made it 1-0 (9th minute), a free-kick variant by Bremen in front of the Cologne goal went completely wrong.
The hosts switched at lightning speed and combined across the pitch to take the lead - although the Bremen defenders provided support.
When it was 2-0 (15th minute), also through Tigges, Bremen played their own throw-in into the Cologne ranks.
The coverage also looked unfortunate when Ellyes Shkiri made it 4-0 (30th minute) and Denis Huseinbasic made it 5-0 (36th minute).
Bremen international Niclas Füllkrug, who had been invisible up to that point, made cosmetic results after 38 minutes with a header after a corner kick.
Werder had never conceded five goals in a first half.
The game was already over at the break.
It continued like that in the second half.
First Tigges missed the safe sixth goal, then Shkiri did better in the 56th minute and scored with a side kick to make it 6:1.
Result with historic proportions
Appropriately, an own goal by Marco Friedl in the 76th minute made an almost historic result perfect: 7:1: Cologne had scored seven goals 40 years ago against Eintracht Frankfurt, and there was a 7:1 for Cologne anyway, in 1975 against Tennis Borussia Berlin – the goals were scored by Dieter Müller, Heinz Flohe and Wolfgang Overath, among others.
In front of 7500 spectators.
For the Cologne team, this resounding victory means they have climbed three places in the table to tenth place.
Werder remains ninth.
Aha
