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Cologne (AP) - coach Markus Gisdol from the relegation-threatened Bundesliga club 1. FC Köln is hoping for the return of the three long-term injured top performers Florian Kainz, Sebastian Andersson and Sebastiaan Bornauw before the away game at VfL Wolfsburg on Saturday (3.30 p.m. / Sky).
With winger Kainz, who was involved in twelve goals last year and has not played a minute because of a knee operation this season, it is "certainly a consideration that he is in the squad," said Gisdol.
For striker Andersson, who has not been available since mid-December due to knee problems, the decision will be made after the last two training sessions.
And also with defender Bornauw Gisdol “did not want to rule out that he belongs to the squad”.
Bornauw from Belgium was “certainly the biggest deficit of all because of what he had to go through.
Physically, he has experienced a kind of zeroing of the body, ”said Gisdol.
Bornauw had told emotionally about it in the club's own documentary "24/7 FC".
“The doctors had to put me in an artificial coma for 24 hours.
20 years ago I would have died 90 percent, »the 22-year-old Belgian said.
The doctors had found a benign bone tumor on the spine.
There had been complications during the anesthesia for the procedure.
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The Cologne team, who slipped to 16th place, are approaching the game at the third in Wolfsburg with great respect.
"The challenge could hardly be any bigger at the moment," said Gisdol, who was delighted that U21 national team players Salih Özcan and Ismail Jakobs have returned from the preliminary round of the U21 European Championship "in a good mood and in good physical condition".
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