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The 50,000 spectators at the sold-out RheinEnergieStadion saw a lively start from the home side, who were in search of three points in their fight against relegation. “Köln came into the game under a lot of pressure due to their league position,” Christian Streich acknowledged. After three minutes, Max Finkgräfe broke through on the left and found Faride Alidou, but he put his effort wide of Noah Atubolu’s goal.

On the bench: Philipp, Jurásek, Becker, Brooks, Skov, Conté, Moerstedt, Drexler, Bischof

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Sebastian Hoeneß, Fabian Wohlgemuth, Leonidas Stergiou and Alexander Nübel give their reaction to the 3-1 home win over Bayern Munich.

After the longest winter break in the history of the league, Union started the new calendar year with an impressive run. Six successes in a row – including the Berlin derby – propelled the club from fifth to second in the table, while the club also survived the DFB Pokal last 16 tie VfL Wolfsburg on a turbulent, and stormy transfer deadline day. As Danilho Doekhi rose to become the most prolific centre-back in the top leagues with three goals in January, his team-mates seemed to be briefly lacking their previous attacking power in February.

VfL Wolfsburg picked up a third consecutive win on Bundesliga Matchday 32 with a 3-0 triumph over Darmstadt on Saturday afternoon, a result that gives them extra breathing room in the battle to avoid relegation. 

Gregor Kobel: “It was a super step. In a phase like this, it does you good and gives you self-confidence to fight back like this. We need to show that on the pitch game-in, game-out. And we now need to carry the momentum into the difficult weeks and continue where we left off today in Milan on Tuesday.”

After falling behind in the first 10 minutes, the Green-Whites did excellently to regain control of the game and turn the tide in their favour, finding the back of the net twice through Nick Woltemade. Borussia were then awarded a penalty in the dying seconds, allowing them to equalise and take two points away from SVW. Michael Zetterer believed that the result was fair, while the other Green-Whites in the mixed zone reflected on the draw with frustration and disappointment. WERDER.DE have summarised the reaction to the game.

Ermedin Demirović: “We came here feeling extremely motivated and wanted to be aggressive in order to take something from the game, but nothing went to plan. We conceded far too easily and we just weren’t there in the key moments. That makes it even harder to put together a comeback. We kept fighting in the second half and continued to look to attack, but the better team won today. Our focus now is on our next two games in order to finish the season strong.” 

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