Köln v Augsburg
Bundesliga | RheinEnergieStadion
Saturday, 4 November 2023 @ 2.30pm
Köln are on a poor run ahead of hosting Augsburg at the RheinEnergieStadion on Saturday, with just three points collected from their last six games.
Köln have picked up just one win in their last six Bundesliga games, and face an Augsburg side whose last six games have brought three wins and three losses.
Köln are 17th in the table after nine games, of which they have won one and drawn one, earning four points.
Augsburg are seven places ahead of the home side in 10th, with three wins and two draws putting them on 11 points.
In the last 10 years, Köln and Augsburg have played each other on 16 occasions. Köln won four of them, Augsburg six, and they drew six times.
On average, Köln scored 1.1 goals and Augsburg 1.2 in those matches.
Their last meeting was on April 8, when Köln won 3-1 away.
With seven goals in nine games so far this season, Köln are the league's lowest scorers with 0.8 goals per game. And they are conceding more than average, letting in 21 goals at a rate of 2.3 per game.
The visitors, meanwhile, are above average scorers, with 2.0 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.8. They have conceded 2.3 goals per game.
In Ermedin Demirović, Augsburg have one of the league's most on-form strikers so far this season. He has notched five goals in nine appearances, to sit eighth in the scoring charts.
His goal rate of one every 158 minutes is quicker than that of Florian Kainz, Köln's top scorer with a goal every 236 minutes, and a total of three goals in nine games.
Köln's last match was on Saturday, a 6-0 loss against RB Leipzig.
Augsburg beat Wolfsburg 3-2 last time out, also on October 28, with Arne Engels and Phillip Tietz on the scoresheet.