Nürnberg 2-1 FC Köln: result and report
Bundesliga · Saturday 18 February 2012
Result
Nürnberg 2-1 FC Köln
Bundesliga · Saturday 18 February 2012, 14:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
Nürnberg 2-1 FC Köln: match report
Nürnberg won against FC Köln 2-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 18 February 2012. The half-time score was 1-0.
Alexander Esswein opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Nürnberg's goals came from Alexander Esswein (28') and Tomas Pekhart (85'). FC Köln scored through Milivoje Novaković (66').
Discipline: Nürnberg received 3 yellow cards; FC Köln received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Nürnberg were 14th on 22 points from 21 and FC Köln 13th on 24 points from 21. Nürnberg went on to finish that season 10th with 42 points, and FC Köln 17th with 30.
Nürnberg lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and FC Köln in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Nürnberg wins, 0 draws and 2 for FC Köln.
Going into the match Nürnberg's last five read D-L-L-W-W and FC Köln's L-W-L-L-L.
Key events
- 24'Yellow card · S. Peszko
- 28'Goal · Alexander Esswein
- 55'Yellow card · M. Brečko
- 57'Yellow card · Adam Hlousek
- 66'Goal · Milivoje Novaković
- 67'Yellow card · Raphael Schafer
- 77'Yellow card · Odise Roshi
- 78'Yellow card · Timmy Simons
- 85'Goal · Tomas Pekhart
Head-to-head
Team news
Nürnberg expected line-up (4-1-4-1)
Raphael Schäfer, Andreas Wolf, Dennis Diekmeier, Andreas Ottl, Mike Frantz, İlkay Gündoğan, Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting, Albert Bunjaku, Javier Pinola
FC Köln line-up (4-4-2)
Michael Rensing, Mišo Brečko, Sascha Riether, Henrique Sereno, Pedro Geromel, Kevin McKenna, Martin Lanig, Mato Jajalo, Christian Clemens, Milivoje Novakovič, Sławomir Peszko