Nürnberg 2-1 FC Köln: result and report

Bundesliga · Saturday 18 February 2012

Result

Nürnberg 2-1 FC Köln

Bundesliga · Saturday 18 February 2012, 14:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Nürnberg 2-1 FC Köln: match report

Nürnberg won against FC Köln 2-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 18 February 2012. The half-time score was 1-0.

Alexander Esswein opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Nürnberg's goals came from Alexander Esswein (28') and Tomas Pekhart (85'). FC Köln scored through Milivoje Novaković (66').

Discipline: Nürnberg received 3 yellow cards; FC Köln received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nürnberg were 14th on 22 points from 21 and FC Köln 13th on 24 points from 21. Nürnberg went on to finish that season 10th with 42 points, and FC Köln 17th with 30.

Nürnberg lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and FC Köln in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Nürnberg wins, 0 draws and 2 for FC Köln.

Going into the match Nürnberg's last five read D-L-L-W-W and FC Köln's L-W-L-L-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 24'Yellow card · S. PeszkoFC Köln
  • 28'Goal · Alexander EssweinNürnberg · 1-0
  • 55'Yellow card · M. BrečkoFC Köln
  • 57'Yellow card · Adam HlousekNürnberg
  • 66'Goal · Milivoje NovakovićFC Köln · 1-1
  • 67'Yellow card · Raphael SchaferNürnberg
  • 77'Yellow card · Odise RoshiFC Köln
  • 78'Yellow card · Timmy SimonsNürnberg
  • 85'Goal · Tomas PekhartNürnberg · 2-1

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Nürnberg 5, draws 0, FC Köln 2.

Team news

Nürnberg expected line-up (4-1-4-1)

Raphael Schäfer, Andreas Wolf, Dennis Diekmeier, Andreas Ottl, Mike Frantz, İlkay Gündoğan, Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting, Albert Bunjaku, Javier Pinola

FC Köln line-up (4-4-2)

Michael Rensing, Mišo Brečko, Sascha Riether, Henrique Sereno, Pedro Geromel, Kevin McKenna, Martin Lanig, Mato Jajalo, Christian Clemens, Milivoje Novakovič, Sławomir Peszko