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You will experience just how fast the football business is these days at 1. FC Köln.

It was just before Christmas, so not that long ago, when Horst Heldt stood in front of the team to protect them after a defeat and after the 0: 4 in the Rheinderby against Bayer Leverkusen, confirmed how solid they were.

“The team”, stated the sports director, “is stable and it is also well managed”.

What the FC then delivered to SC Freiburg on Saturday reminded only little of these words of praise.

With 0: 5, the team was outclassed in the up-and-coming Breisgauer, who were able to make five games in a row for the first time in their Bundesliga history.

With the five goals she conceded, she was even well served in the end.

“That cannot be explained.

Of course you are frustrated when you get 5-0 down, "said Horst Heldt afterwards to the" BamS ":" That was a complete failure.

Not much worked there. "

For four games the Cologne team have been winless and goalless at the same time in the Bundesliga.

In Freiburg, the team also ran five kilometers less than the opponent and was otherwise inferior in all respects.

After 15 games, the FC has ranked 15.

only eleven points and 13 goals on the account.

When Markus Gisdol, the coach, whose contract was prematurely extended by a year to 2023 in August of last year, was asked about his personal future after the bankruptcy in Breisgau, he reacted evasively.

"Of course you can't perform like that"

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“It always depends on how much you let this pressure on you.

Of course, we ourselves have the claim that we want to score, ”said the coach at Sky and focused on the coming weeks, in which Cologne will face four direct matches against Hertha BSC, Schalke 04, Hoffenheim and Arminia Bielefeld Competitors in the relegation battle are on the agenda.

“We still have four important games in January, so of course we want to score points.

We have to draw the right conclusions from the game today so that we can score points. "

It is obvious that the team cannot afford such a desperate performance.

The players are required to deliver - as is the coach, who is not officially available yet.

“Of course you can't perform like that, that's very clear.

Overall, we didn't have a chance throughout the game, "said Cologne goalkeeper Timo Horn, who, like the whole team, looked unsettled and flawed:" Now we have to look ahead.

It's all about keeping the FC in the league. "

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