Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2-0 FC Köln: result and report
Bundesliga · Friday 24 October 2008
Result
Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2-0 FC Köln
Bundesliga · Friday 24 October 2008, 18:30 UTC · half-time 0-0
Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2-0 FC Köln: match report
Bayer 04 Leverkusen beat FC Köln 2-0 in the Bundesliga on Friday 24 October 2008. The half-time score was 0-0.
Manuel Friedrich opened the scoring in the 67th minute. Bayer 04 Leverkusen's goals came from Manuel Friedrich (67') and Theofanis Gekas (84', penalty). FC Köln did not score.
Discipline: Bayer 04 Leverkusen received 1 yellow card; FC Köln received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Bayer 04 Leverkusen were 3rd on 15 points from 8 and FC Köln 9th on 13 points from 8. Bayer 04 Leverkusen went on to finish that season 9th with 49 points, and FC Köln 12th with 39.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen wins, 0 draws and 0 for FC Köln.
Going into the match Bayer 04 Leverkusen's last five read W-L-W-W-L and FC Köln's W-W-W-L-L.
Key events
- 50'Yellow card · Yousif Mohamad
- 61'Yellow card · Milivoje Novaković
- 67'Goal · Manuel Friedrich
- 78'Yellow card · Kevin Pezzoni
- 83'Yellow card · Pedro Geromel
- 84'Penalty goal · Theofanis Gekas
- 87'Yellow card · Faryd Mondragón Aly
- 87'Yellow card · A. Vidal
Head-to-head
Team news
Bayer 04 Leverkusen line-up (4-3-1-2)
René Adler, Henrique, Manuel Friedrich, Michal Kadlec, Simon Rolfes, Renato Augusto, Pirmin Schwegler, Arturo Vidal, Gonzalo Castro, Stefan Kießling, Patrick Helmes
FC Köln expected line-up
Alexander Bade, Carsten Cullmann, Marvin Matip, Christian Lell, Lukas Sinkiewicz, Ricardo Cabanas, Albert Streit, Lukas Podolski, Matthias Scherz, Markus Feulner, Alpay Ozalan