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FC Nürnberg 2-1 FC Köln - February 18, 2012 / Bundesliga 2011/2012

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Bundesliga 2011/2012 - Round 22

easyCredit-Stadion - Nuremberg - Germany

February 18, 2012 - 15:30

38 101

FC Nürnberg

2 - 1

FC Köln

(right foot) Alexander Esswein

28'

Assist by Alexander Esswein (header) Tomas Pekhart

85'

66'

Milivoje Novakovic (right foot) Assist by Odise Roshi

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28' - Goal Alexander Esswein28

37' - Substitution Henrique Serenois substituted by Christian Eichner

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64' - Substitution Slawomir Peszkois substituted by Odise Roshi

66' - Goal Milivoje Novakovic

68' - Substitution Jens Hegeleris substituted by Daniel Didavi68

76' - Substitution Hanno Balitschis substituted by Mike Frantz76

82' - Substitution Timothy Chandleris substituted by Christian Eigler82

85' - Goal Tomas Pekhart85

87' - Substitution Martin Lanigis substituted by Mikael Ishak

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

FC Nürnberg

2 - 1

FC Köln

FC Nürnberg FC Köln

Team line-ups

FC Nürnberg

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

9Pekhart85

Tomas Pekhart

Czech Republic

B.date26/05/1989

Age22 years

H1m94

positionCentre forward

33Esswein28

Alexander Esswein

Germany

B.date25/03/1990

Age21 years

H1m81

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

13Hegeler68

Jens Hegeler

Germany

B.date22/01/1988

Age24 years

H1m93

positionCentre Midfield

26Chandler82

Timothy Chandler

United States

B.date29/03/1990

Age21 years

H1m86

positionRight full-back

2Simons

Timmy Simons

Belgium

B.date11/12/1976

Age35 years

H1m86

positionDefensive Midfielder

5Balitsch76

Hanno Balitsch

Germany

B.date02/01/1981

Age31 years

H1m83

positionRight central midfielder

23Hlousek

Adam Hlousek

Czech Republic

B.date20/12/1988

Age23 years

H1m87

positionLeft full-back

38Wollscheid

Philipp Wollscheid

Germany

B.date06/03/1989

Age22 years

H1m94

positionCentral defender

6Maroh

Dominic Maroh

Slovenia

B.date04/03/1987

Age24 years

H1m86

positionRight central defender

7Feulner

Markus Feulner

Germany

B.date12/02/1982

Age30 years

H1m83

positionRight full-back

1Schäfer

Raphael Schäfer

Germany

B.date30/01/1979

Age33 years

H1m90

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Raphael Schäfer		33	238	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Dominic Maroh		24	74	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
38	D	Philipp Wollscheid		22	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
26	M	Timothy Chandler	82	21	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	D	Adam Hlousek		23	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	D	Markus Feulner		30	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	M	Timmy Simons		35	63	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	M	Hanno Balitsch	76	31	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	M	Jens Hegeler	68	24	62	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
33	M	Alexander Esswein	28	21	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Tomas Pekhart	85	22	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26 years

Average number of matches played for the team

FC Köln

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

11Novakovic66

Milivoje Novakovic

Slovenia

B.date18/05/1979

Age32 years

H1m90

positionStriker

15Peszko64

Slawomir Peszko

Poland

B.date19/02/1985

Age26 years

H1m74

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

27Clemens

Christian Clemens

Germany

B.date04/08/1991

Age20 years

H1m80

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

5Riether

Sascha Riether

Germany

B.date23/03/1983

Age28 years

H1m74

positionRight full-back

19Jajalo

Mato Jajalo

Bosnia and Herzegovina

B.date25/05/1988

Age23 years

H1m82

positionPlaymaker

13Lanig87

Martin Lanig

Germany

B.date11/07/1984

Age27 years

H1m90

positionRight central midfielder

17Sereno37

Henrique Sereno

Portugal

B.date18/05/1985

Age26 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

21Geromel

Pedro Geromel

Brazil

B.date21/09/1985

Age26 years

H1m87

positionRight central defender

23McKenna

Kevin McKenna

Canada

B.date21/01/1980

Age32 years

H1m89

positionCentral defender

2Brecko

Miso Brecko

Slovenia

B.date01/05/1984

Age27 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

1Rensing

Michael Rensing

Germany

B.date14/05/1984

Age27 years

H1m90

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Michael Rensing		27	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	D	Henrique Sereno	37	26	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	D	Kevin McKenna		32	109	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	D	Pedro Geromel		26	112	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	M	Sascha Riether		28	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Miso Brecko		27	121	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	M	Martin Lanig	87	27	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	F	Slawomir Peszko	64	26	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
27	M	Christian Clemens		20	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	M	Mato Jajalo		23	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	F	Milivoje Novakovic	66	32	168	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
20	M	Daniel Didavi	68	21	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Christian Eigler	82	28	120	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Mike Frantz	76	25	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
4	D	Christian Eichner	37	29	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
28	M	Odise Roshi	64	20	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	F	Mikael Ishak	87	18	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Jens Hegeler

Mike Frantz

OUT

Hanno Balitsch

Almog Cohen

OUT

Alexander Esswein

Albert Bunjaku

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Miso Brecko

Christian Eichner

OUT

Kevin McKenna

Ammar Jemal

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Dieter-Klaus Hecking

Success rate in this team:

39 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

40 %

Hecking vs FC Köln

5 victories

1 draw

5 losses

Latest figure on February 18, 2012

Hecking vs Solbakken

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on February 18, 2012

Manager

Age

Match num

Stale Solbakken

Success rate in this team:

33 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

55 %

Solbakken vs FC Nürnberg

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on February 18, 2012

Solbakken vs Hecking

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on February 18, 2012

Referee

Christian Dingert

10 victories	3 draws	12 losses	FC Nürnberg25 matches	General total	FC Köln22 matches	8 victories	7 draws	7 losses
1 victory	0 draw	2 losses	FC Nürnberg3 matches	Season total	FC Köln1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on October 18, 2022					Latest figure on January 18, 2025

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Key figures

It's the first time Alexander Esswein scores 1 goal vs FC Köln in his professional career

FC Nürnberg keeps its 18 consecutive matches without a draw vs FC Köln in Bundesliga running (since 20/10/1990). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 08/11/1986 (10 matches)

Milivoje Novakovic played his game number 100 in Bundesliga

Read the next 10 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LFC Nürnberg 1-2 Freiburg05/11/2011

VFC Nürnberg 1-0 Kaiserslautern26/11/2011

LFC Nürnberg 0-2 Hoffenheim10/12/2011

LFC Nürnberg 0-1 Greuther Fürth20/12/2011

VFC Nürnberg 2-0 Hertha Berlin21/01/2012

LFC Nürnberg 0-2 Borussia Dortmund03/02/2012

Overall

VBayer Leverkusen 0-3 FC Nürnberg17/12/2011

LFC Nürnberg 0-1 Greuther Fürth20/12/2011

VFC Nürnberg 2-0 Hertha Berlin21/01/2012

LHannover 96 1-0 FC Nürnberg27/01/2012

LFC Nürnberg 0-2 Borussia Dortmund03/02/2012

DAugsburg 0-0 FC Nürnberg12/02/2012

Current form

Away

LHoffenheim 2-1 FC Köln25/10/2011

LWerder Bremen 3-2 FC Köln05/11/2011

DStuttgart 2-2 FC Köln03/12/2011

LBayern Munich 3-0 FC Köln16/12/2011

LWolfsburg 1-0 FC Köln21/01/2012

VKaiserslautern 0-1 FC Köln05/02/2012

Overall

DFC Köln 1-1 Mainz13/12/2011

LBayern Munich 3-0 FC Köln16/12/2011

LWolfsburg 1-0 FC Köln21/01/2012

LFC Köln 1-4 Schalke 0428/01/2012

VKaiserslautern 0-1 FC Köln05/02/2012

LFC Köln 0-1 Hambourg12/02/2012

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	0	1
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	1	3
Drawless streak	6	0
Goalless streak	1	3
Conceding streak	1	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	1	0
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	3	5
Scoring streak	1	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	0

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

262	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	135
15	FBDB index ranking (National)	10

Results

21	Number of games (Competition total)	21
10	Number of games (Home / Away)	10
6	Victories (Competition total)	7
3	Victories (Home / Away)	3
4	Draws (Competition total)	3
3	Draws (Home / Away)	1
11	Losses (Competition total)	11
4	Losses (Home / Away)	6

Goals

19	Goals scored (Competition total)	29
12	Goals scored (Home / Away)	14
31	Goals conceded (Competition total)	41
14	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	26
0.9	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.38
1.2	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.4
1.48	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.95
1.4	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2.6

Betting aid

9	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	14
4	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	8
6	Clean sheets (Competition total)	5
3	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	1
9	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	7
2	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	4
7	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	9
5	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	5
1-2 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-3 (2 times)

Bookings

44	Yellow cards (Competition total)	46
22	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	27
2	Red cards (Competition total)	4
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

Tomas Pekhart	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	15 goals	Lukas Podolski
Tomas Pekhart	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	6 goals	Lukas Podolski
Timmy Simons	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Lukas Podolski
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Lukas Podolski
Marvin Plattenhardt	3 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	4 assists	Lukas Podolski
Markus Feulner	2 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	3 assists	Lukas Podolski
Tomas Pekhart	1 goal during the last 5 matches	The fittest player	15 goals, 4 assists during the last 20 matches	Lukas Podolski

Historical head to head

Home

30 matches

15 v

8 d

7 l

51 gf

39 ga

Away

31 matches

5 v

4 d

22 l

34 gf

85 ga

Total

61 matches

20 v

12 d

29 l

85 gf

124 ga

Historical head to head

Home

31 matches

22 v

4 d

5 l

85 gf

34 ga

Away

30 matches

7 v

8 d

15 l

39 gf

51 ga

Total

61 matches

29 v

12 d

20 l

124 gf

85 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	August 28, 1991
Home	4 - 0	August 28, 1991

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	November 07, 1999
Away	4 - 0	October 20, 1990

Latest head to head

September 11, 2011 - Bundesliga 2011/2012

FC Köln

1 - 2

FC Nürnberg logo FC Nürnberg

April 03, 2011 - Bundesliga 2010/2011

FC Köln

1 - 0

FC Nürnberg logo FC Nürnberg

November 06, 2010 - Bundesliga 2010/2011

FC Nürnberg

3 - 1

FC Köln

May 08, 2010 - Bundesliga 2009/2010

FC Nürnberg

1 - 0

FC Köln

December 20, 2009 - Bundesliga 2009/2010

FC Köln

3 - 0

FC Nürnberg logo FC Nürnberg

Best historical scorers against FC Köln

Werner Heck	4 goals	1981 - 1983
Georg Volkert	3 goals	1965 - 1980
Robert Vittek	3 goals	2006 - 2006
Heinz Strehl	3 goals	1964 - 1967
Jörn Andersen	3 goals	1986 - 1987
Timmy Simons	2 goals	2011 - 2011

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 27/05/1961. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against FC Nürnberg

Pierre Littbarski	11 goals	1982 - 1993
Karl-Heinz Thielen	7 goals	1961 - 1964
Hans Schäfer	5 goals	1962 - 1964
Dieter Müller	5 goals	1977 - 1981
Klaus Fischer	4 goals	1981 - 1984
Christian Müller	4 goals	1961 - 1963

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 27/05/1961. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs FC Köln

Thomas Brunner	20 matches	1980 - 1993
Andreas Köpke	15 matches	1987 - 1993
Dieter Eckstein	12 matches	1985 - 1993
Horst Leupold	12 matches	1963 - 1969
Norbert Eder	10 matches	1978 - 1984
Heinz Strehl	10 matches	1963 - 1969

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 27/05/1961. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs FC Nürnberg

Pierre Littbarski	19 matches	1980 - 1993
Paul Steiner	16 matches	1981 - 1990
Bodo Illgner	15 matches	1987 - 1993
Fritz Pott	15 matches	1962 - 1968
Wolfgang Overath	14 matches	1963 - 1977
Matthias Hemmersbach	14 matches	1962 - 1969