This season for the London club the priority tournament is already the Europa League, where the Gunners after their recent victory over Slavia in Prague, have already reached the semifinals. In the English championship Arsenal have not been claiming anything serious for a long time. The team has firmly settled in the middle of the standings and even for the sixth or seventh place it will be difficult for it to argue, given the quality of the game and the level of rivals who are in the top seven. Although Mikel Arteta’s team is not far away. The Gunners are in ninth place, being seven points behind seventh Liverpool. In the last round of the championship, Arsenal could not beat Fulham at home, having won back only 90 + 7 minutes. As a result, there was a 1:1 draw. In general, in the four previous rounds the Gunners achieved victory only in the match with the notorious outsider Sheffield United (3:0). Also during this period they ended in a draw with West Ham (3:3) and lost to Liverpool (0:3). This season Arsenal have only ninth place in the home arena. They won six out of 15 home matches, lost the same number of times and were content with a draw in three matches. The personnel losses of Londoners are quite serious. Two key attackers were injured at once, namely Alexander Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. There are also two main defenders in the infirmary Kieran Tierney and David Luis. Questionable is Martin Edegor.
Cologne is failing the season, but unlike their current rival, the goats have no room for error being in the direct relegation zone. With 26 points, Friedhelm Funkel’s team is in the penultimate place in the table, being 13 points ahead of the hopeless Schalke. Only additional indicators separate the goats from the zone of transitional matches, while the saving 15th line is at a distance of four points. In the first match after returning to Cologne Funkel lost 0:3 to Bayer at a party, but in the next meeting he managed to surprise. In the home match with Leipzig, Cologne was considered an obvious outsider, but contrary to all predictions, he managed not only to take a point from the favorite, but also to get hold of all three points. A 2:1 win over Leipzig ended an unsuccessful nine-game streak and made it possible to catch up on points with Gertha, but Berliners still have two more games in hand. So, what is the soccer bet prediction for today?
