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

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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.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 50'Yellow card · Yousif MohamadFC Köln
  • 61'Yellow card · Milivoje NovakovićFC Köln
  • 67'Goal · Manuel FriedrichBayer 04 Leverkusen · 1-0
  • 78'Yellow card · Kevin PezzoniFC Köln
  • 83'Yellow card · Pedro GeromelFC Köln
  • 84'Penalty goal · Theofanis GekasBayer 04 Leverkusen · 2-0
  • 87'Yellow card · Faryd Mondragón AlyFC Köln
  • 87'Yellow card · A. VidalBayer 04 Leverkusen

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2, draws 0, FC Köln 0.

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