Kölsche The Winter's Tale

Cologne --
In bright sunshine were the FC-professionals in the winter landscape around Geißbockheim the tiredness from the legs. Coach Zvonimir Soldo went well tempered front. Seven points to the relegation zone, only four points behind Werder Bremen in sixth - Soldos snow kings and their typical Cologne Winter's Tale.
We're on a wave, "says Defense Star Pedro Geromel. "Of the last seven games we were unlucky to lost against Dortmund." Three wins between them. The funny thing: At Nuremberg (3-0), Wolfsburg (3-2) and in Frankfurt Frau Holle vigorously shaking her pillows - and it now says even the FC-Brazilians to the blizzard: "This is our weather!"
Mr Miso Brecko laughs: "I'm concerned, it can be cold even longer." Trainer Soldo: "Apparently the cold weather is important to us." With a lot of tactical discipline and willingness to defy the running FC professionals currently the adverse external conditions to collect counters to count .
Geromel: "It feels good to put in there to no longer directly below. But now we do not look up - we want to score points on. Even against Hamburger SV. "
For the game against the Labbadia club begins a series of serious opponents. But unlike in the first round the Cologne before the duel with the HSV, Schalke, Leverkusen and Bayern are not afraid. Soldo also pays off because of points: "We are much more stable, self-confidence is there. And we always come back after setbacks. "
Leveled against the BVB a two-goal gap, they had twice against Wolfsburg and Frankfurt once to put away the equalizer. Striker Sebastian Freis: "But we have found ourselves as a team, the node has burst."
And so, the FC troops also shows without their top striker Lukas Podolski and Milivoje Novakovic amazing comeback qualities. They braced themselves in a snowstorm in Frankfurt against the pressing hosts - and took three points. The Cologne Winter's Tale can go on ...