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Second Division Leaders Cologne Guarantee Bundesliga Promotion

21.04.2014 23:31

Cologne have wrapped up promotion to the Bundesliga next season with a 2-1 home win over Bochum. After two years' absence, coach Peter Stöger's Billy Goats can return to top-flight German pastures. The beer showers are the same as at Bayern Munich, albeit with the local, lighter Kölsch brew, as opposed to the wheat beer favored in Bavaria. Fans charged onto the pitch shortly after the final whistle to celebrate with their team on home turf - as they guaranteed promotion with three matches to spare. At first it seemed that the hosts would have to wait another week for the confirmation - considering that they trailed 1-0 at half time against VfL Bochum on Monday evening. Coach Peter Stöger dipped into his bench at the break, bringing on Marcel Risse. Within five minutes of the restart, Risse tied the score with a right-footed shot from just outside the box. Patrick Helmes had a strong penalty appeal turned down shortly thereafter, but was later awarded a spot kick for a foul by center-ba

Cologne have wrapped up promotion to the Bundesliga next season with a 2-1 home win over Bochum. After two years' absence, coach Peter Stöger's Billy Goats can return to top-flight German pastures.

The beer showers are the same as at Bayern Munich, albeit with the local, lighter Kölsch brew, as opposed to the wheat beer favored in Bavaria. Fans charged onto the pitch shortly after the final whistle to celebrate with their team on home turf - as they guaranteed promotion with three matches to spare.



At first it seemed that the hosts would have to wait another week for the confirmation - considering that they trailed 1-0 at half time against VfL Bochum on Monday evening. Coach Peter Stöger dipped into his bench at the break, bringing on Marcel Risse.



Within five minutes of the restart, Risse tied the score with a right-footed shot from just outside the box. Patrick Helmes had a strong penalty appeal turned down shortly thereafter, but was later awarded a spot kick for a foul by center-back Jonas Acquistapace, who was also sent off by referee Guido Winkmann.



Helmes' penalty was saved in the 64th minute, but the German followed up to finish the rebound with his left. A second substitute up front, Helmes' replacement Anthony Ujah, put the result beyond any doubt against Bochum's ten men in the 81st minute.



Front-runners all year



Unbeaten in their last ten games in the 2. Bundesliga, Cologne enjoy a comfortable lead atop the second division table and cannot now be caught.



Stöger's first campaign with the club, since joining from Austria Vienna in the summer, proved comparatively smooth sailing in the second division - the only title Cologne have managed to snaffle in recent years. A former top flight Bundesliga winner, most recently in 1978, Cologne has become something of a yo-yo team since the turn of the century - winning the 2. Bundesliga in 2000, 2005, and now in 2014.



The race for promotion below Cologne remains wide open with three sets of fixtures to play. Greuther Fürth, Paderborn, Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe and St Pauli might all still hope to be in with a shot of either the second automatic promotion spot, or the place in the relegation playoff earmarked for the third-placed team in the German second division.



 
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