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xG Scores Koln vs Borussia Dortmund 2019 (Cologne 0.95- 2.09 BVB)

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Here are the xG scores from Koln 1-3 Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga last night. Koln were playing their first home top flight game after promotion, and they took the game to BVB, who needed a late rescue act from Jadon Sancho and co. to win in front of a 50,000 strong crowd.

Full xG scores Koln (0.95) vs Dortmund (2.09)

Individual xG scores of goals: Drexler (Koln 0.47), Sancho (BVB 0.03), Hakimi (BVB 0.59) and Alcacer (BVB 0.62).

Jadon Sancho recently inked a new BVB deal that would take his salary to 190,000 pounds a week, and goals like this one (probability of 0.03, or 3 times per 100 shots), tell us why.

XG Koln BVB

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2.Bundesliga Team of the Week | Round 13 | Season 2018-19 | 5 Effzeh players

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Here is the 2.Bundesliga’s team of the week for fixtures in Round 13 of the competition for the 2018/19 season. There were goals galore in this round- more than half the games produced four or more goals in this Game Week. There was only one goalless stalemate, and that was between Sandhausen and Duisburg, with both teams getting some breathing space from the drop zone after sharing the spoils. It also saw SVS goalkeeper Niklas Lomb earn a spot in goal in the Team of the Round.

Not surprisingly, Koln’s 8:1 thrashing of Dynamo Dresden sees them dominate this TOTW- as many as five of the XI named here are from Effzeh. An important win for them following their previous round loss to Hamburg. It took poor Dresden’s goal difference into the negative, having conceded only 12 goals in their previous 12 games.

Bundesliga 2 Team of the Week | MD13 | 2018-19 season: Lomb (Sanderhausen), Hector (Koln), Correia (Jahn Regensburg), Jorge Mere (Koln), Sakai (Hamburg), Mees (Union Berlin), Schaub (Koln), Narey (Hamburg), Schindler (Holstein Kiel), Terodde (Koln), Cordoba (Koln)

2.Bundesliga Team of the Week

Here are 2.Bundesliga’s results from Game Week 13

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Sunday Roundup- Bayer Leverkusen 0:2 Schalke & Leipzig 1:2 Cologne 2018

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A first half strike from Guido Burgstaller and a late penalty from Nabil Bentaleb saw Schalke beat Leverkusen 2:0 at the Bay Arena and go third in the league.

Burgstaller broke his seven game drought when he produced a cool finish to open the scoring on 11 minutes. Daniel Caligiuri’s long pass found the Austrian international in space, and he deftly lofted it over defender Panagiotis Retsos before slotting home.

Things went from bad to worse for Leverkusen, who could’ve potentially gone second with a win here, when Dominik Kohr was sent off seven minutes before half time.

Schalke finished the job through substitute Nabil Bentaleb’s second half penalty after Retsos had brought down Embolo in the box. The Algerian, brought on in the second half for Leon Goretzka, sent Bernd Leno the wrong way for his fourth of the campaign.

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