Ljubicic shoots Cologne for the autumn championship - Kaiserslautern disappointed!

Ljubicic shoots Cologne for the autumn championship - Kaiserslautern disappointed!

Kaiserslautern, Deutschland - On December 24, 2024, the 1. FC Köln experienced an important victory in the Fritz-Walter Stadium by defeating 1. FC Kaiserslautern 1-0 and thus secured the autumn championship. Dejan Ljubicic, the Austrian player of FC, scored the decisive goal in the 33rd minute. However, during the game, he was lucky that he was not sent off the pitch with a yellow-red card after he reached hard several times in the first half. This caused displeasure with the coach of the FCK, Markus Beginning, who reacted angrily after the game to the referee decision and explained that he had considered a yellow-red card for Ljubicic to be justified, which in the analysis of Geissblog.koeln more clearly.

The defeat was particularly bitter for the FCK, since after a previously weak performance against SV Darmstadt 98 (1: 5) they now had to accept the second bankruptcy in series. The team thus lost the promotion struggle at the top of the table in the second Bundesliga. With the defeat, the Lautrer end the first half of the season in ninth place with 26 points. Coach Markus Begin had hoped to celebrate a victory in front of a home backdrop. Despite a dominant second half and the urge to equalize, the team failed to score the hoped -for gate, as in the report by Rheinpfalz.de . After this difficult phase, FC Kaiserslautern is now going into the winter break, while Cologne is optimistic about the second half of the season.