After knocking out the cup against the second division club Hamburger SV, Bundesliga“>1. FC Köln will go into the Bundesliga duel (6.30 p.m. / Sky) at VfL Bochum with a heavily changed starting eleven. Coach Steffen Baumgart made six changes compared to the game on Tuesday. Benno Schmitz, Salih Özcan, Florian Kainz, Ondrej Duda, Louis Schaub and Anthony Modeste are new to the team.
The conversion of the Bochum team after the 3-1 victory in the cup over Mainz is less extensive. Eduard Löwen and Konstantinos Stafylidis step in for Patrick Osterhage and Christian Gamboa.
