📊 Form Guide

Cologne

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Cologne will be hoping for a better result after the 3-1 Bundesliga defeat last time out to Stuttgart.

In that match, Cologne had 43% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Cologne was Ragnar Ache (79'). Stuttgart got 13 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Ermedin Demirović (15', 84') and Deniz Undav (92') scored for Stuttgart.

Cologne have not been the best at stopping their opponents of late, but they have also found ways to score goals themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, Cologne have seen their goal breached in 5 of them in addition to scoring in 6 of those matches. That aside, we’ll just have to find out if that pattern shall be replicated here in this game.

Heading into this contest, Cologne haven't been beaten in the league by Hoffenheim in their last 2 matches.

Hoffenheim

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Hoffenheim go into this encounter following on from a 3-0 Bundesliga win versus Freiburg in their most recent game.

In that game, Hoffenheim had 61% possession and 25 shots at goal with 7 on target. For Hoffenheim, the scorers were Fisnik Asllani (46'), Ozan Kabak (51') and Valentin Gendrey (95'). At the other end, Freiburg got 13 attempts on goal with 3 on target.

Over the course of their last six clashes, Hoffenheim have helped themselves to a tally of 13 goals. Hoffenheim have also scored in every single one of those games. During that period, their defenders have had 7 goals go against them.

Ahead of this meeting, Hoffenheim are undefeated by Cologne when they've played them away from home in the last 8 league games. An fantastic away run.

↔️ Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels going back to 06/03/2022, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Cologne winning 2 of those games, Hoffenheim 2 and 2 being draws in regulation time.

A sum of 14 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 of them for Köln and 7 netted by Hoffenheim. The average goals per game has been 2.33.

The previous league fixture featuring these clubs was Bundesliga match day 6 on 03/10/2025 when it ended Hoffenheim 0-1 Cologne.

That time, Hoffenheim managed 61% possession and 15 shots at goal with 4 of them on target.

At the other end, Cologne got 9 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Saïd El Mala (16') scored.

The referee was Felix Zwayer.

ℹ️ Team News: Cologne

In all likelihood, Köln look set to go for a 3-3-2-2 system this time, utilising Marvin Schwaebe, Joel Schmied, Rav van den Berg, Cenk Ozkacar, Sebastian Sebulonsen, Tom Krauss, K. Lund Hansen, Jan Thielmann, Jakub Kaminski, Ragnar Ache and Said El Mala.

📰 Team News: Hoffenheim

We reckon that Hoffenheim seem likely to begin the game with a 4-5-1 lineup, choosing Oliver Baumann, Vladimir Coufal, Robin Hranac, Ozan Kabak, Albian Hajdari, Andrej Kramaric, Grischa Proemel, Leon Avdullahu, Wouter Burger, Bazoumana Toure and Fisnik Asllani.

⚡ Prediction

We feel that in this game, Cologne have enough to find the back of the net against this Hoffenheim side, although one goal likely won’t be enough to avoid defeat.

We’re therefore tipping both teams to score in a 1-2 win for Hoffenheim after the 90.

Victor Martins, 14:08 21/02/2026