“Disease, Knee, Ankle, Cut”
“Unlucky Raven” Selke fights bloody – without success
3/11/2023 8:43 am
1. FC Köln have been waiting for their own goal for seven games. The home defeat against bottom VfL Bochum is indicative of the club’s situation. Davie Selke’s face shows how unfortunate it is at the moment.
Davie Selke was almost symbolic for 1. FC Köln. He stood in front of the journalists with a thick plaster over his swollen eye after the 2-0 home defeat against the previous bottom team VfL Bochum and didn’t really know what to say. Selke had worn himself out, worked, fought. But once again very unfortunate acts. Zero goals, zero assists, but four injuries are now in the FC balance sheet for Hertha BSC’s winter addition.
“I’m a Christian, so I don’t say ‘bewitched’,” he replied when asked if everything seemed “bewitched”: “But I’m being slowed down by all sorts of things, it’s really crazy. Illness, knees, ankles, now a cut – but I think I’ve got it all covered now.”
Coach Baumgart doesn’t want to make any accusations
FC have not scored in six of their last seven games. The team from Cologne are only five points ahead of the previous bottom team from Bochum. So does the relegation battle really start again ten games before the end of the season? “We would do well not to let too many doubts arise,” warned defender Timo Hübers, who caused the early 0:1 by Kevin Stöger (9th) with a foul on the penalty line. “That was super unfortunate,” said Hübers, but also admitted: “I have to be smarter.”
This also applies to the entire team. “If you don’t score goals, it will be difficult in the long run, that’s for sure,” said coach Steffen Baumgart. But he was “far from blaming the boys, because they’ve invested a lot, but somehow something is always missing, in the end it’s not enough, and that’s not the first time.”
That sounds threatening. With the game against championship contenders Borussia Dortmund and the derby against Borussia Mönchengladbach, groundbreaking games are now coming up for Cologne. But the confidence is still there. “We’re going to Dortmund with the aim of wanting to win there,” said Baumgart.