- Title: SOCCER-GERMANY Cologne's Stoeger - Will bring our game to Frankfurt
- Date: 11th September 2015
- Summary: FRANKFURT, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 11, 2015) (REUTERS) REPORTERS WAITING FRANKFURT TRAINER ARMIN VEH ARRIVING FOR PRESS CONFERENCE CAMERAMEN VEH LAUGHING VARIOUS OF PRESS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (German) EINTRACHT FRANKFURT TRAINER, ARMIN VEH, SAYING: "Well, they played good matches already last year when they were the promoted team in the season. They always had a good structure, that's what they did very well. Ever since (Cologne trainer) Stoeger and (sporting director) Schmadtke are there, they left a very good impression. It's all very harmonic and matter-of-fact. We all know that it can be very different at times. They are following the right path. They made changes to the team. It will be another match at eye level. As it was with Stuttgart. There are a lot of teams that are quite similar. Not the same but similar. And one of those is surely Cologne." COLOGNE, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 10, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF FC COLOGNE TEAM ARRIVING FOR TRAINING FC COLOGNE TRAINER PETER STOEGER ARRIVING FOR TRAINING PLAYERS STRETCHING VARIOUS OF PLAYERS DOING EXERCISES VARIOUS OF PLAYERS PLAYING FOOTBALL STOEGER AT PRESS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (German) FC COLOGNE TRAINER, PETER STOEGER, SAYING: "We are trying to develop our game further. That means we want to try - also in away games - to have a bigger part of the match. Not only to have a strong structure and wait for the counterattack. I think it will be an interesting match. It will depend on how strong Frankfurt really is. If they give us the chance to be strong, then we will try that. We want to win it. But again: Especially in the offensive, I believe, Frankfurt are one of the strongest teams in the Bundesliga. And that is what we also need to be prepared for." VARIOUS OF PRESS CONFERENCE
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- Story Text: Eintracht Frankfurt play 1. FC Cologne in the Bundesliga match on Saturday (September 12) with both teams looking to build on recent good form.
Frankfurt won their last Bundesliga match 4-1 at Stuttgart while Cologne have seven points from the first three matches to leave them in fourth place, three points ahead of their opponents.
Eintracht trainer Armin Veh is aware of Cologne's strength following their unbeaten start to the season.
"They always had a good structure, that's what they did very well. Ever since (Cologne's coach) Stoeger and (sporting director) Schmadtke are there, they left a very good impression. It's all very harmonic and matter-of-fact. We all know that it can be very different at times. They are following the right path. They made changes to the team. It will be another match at eye level," said Veh at a pre-match press conference in Frankfurt on Friday (September 11).
Cologne's coach Peter Stoeger is also expecting a tough game on Saturday.
"I think it will be an interesting match. It will depend on how strong Frankfurt really is. If they give us the chance to be strong, than we will try that. We want to win it. But again: Especially in the offensive, I believe, Frankfurt are one of the strongest teams in the Bundesliga. And that is what we also need to be prepared for," Stoeger said on Thursday (September 10).
Kick off on Saturday will be at 1630gmt in Frankfurt's Commerzbank Arena. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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