Bayer Leverkusen is having a hard time – but they don’t care. Because 1. FC Cologne weakens itself with an early red card, Xabi Alonso’s team finally pulls ahead of Bayern in the table.
Hot, hotter, Hennes IX: If Timo Schultz, the coach of 1. FC Köln, had witnessed how the Taliban-bearded heraldic animal of his club stormed into the stadium before the game with determination to immediately claim his food bucket, then he would have had the starting line-up maybe think again. He would need fighters like him in the tram duel with Bayer Leverkusen.