Cologne drubs Mainz to ease relegation fears
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February 15, 2011, Tuesday
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LUKAS Podolski and Milivoje Novakovic scored two apiece as FC Cologne continued to ease its Bundesliga relegation fears by crushing Mainz 4-2 on Sunday for its third win in four games.
The hosts looked nothing like a team battling relegation for much of the season, scoring at will as Mainz suffered its third loss in five games since the winter break.
Cologne moved two points clear of the relegation playoff spot into 13th place on 25 points with Mainz stuck in fifth on 37.
In the only other game on Sunday, Werder Bremen salvaged a 1-1 draw against fourth-placed Hanover 96 to stay just above the drop zone on 24 points in 14th place.
Didier Ya Konan gave the visitors the lead against the run of play with his 11th goal of the season midway through the first half before Bremen, the better side throughout, deservedly leveled with a Per Mertesacker header in what was Bremen coach Thomas Schaaf's 400th game in charge.
Borussia Dortmund leads the standings on 52, 10 ahead of second-placed Bayer Leverkusen.
Meanwhile, Borussia Moenchengladbach has appointed Swiss Lucien Favre as its new coach after sacking Michael Frontzeck on Sunday, the Bundesliga's bottom-placed club said yesterday.
"The 53-year-old will run his first training session on Tuesday," the club said in a statement, giving no details on the length of his contract.
'Gladbach, which has lost three of its last four games and suffered a 1-3 defeat by St Pauli on Saturday, is bottom on 16 points from 22 games.
Favre, who coached FC Zurich to two Swiss titles, has Bundesliga experience after steering Hertha Berlin to a fourth-place finish in 2009.
The hosts looked nothing like a team battling relegation for much of the season, scoring at will as Mainz suffered its third loss in five games since the winter break.
Cologne moved two points clear of the relegation playoff spot into 13th place on 25 points with Mainz stuck in fifth on 37.
In the only other game on Sunday, Werder Bremen salvaged a 1-1 draw against fourth-placed Hanover 96 to stay just above the drop zone on 24 points in 14th place.
Didier Ya Konan gave the visitors the lead against the run of play with his 11th goal of the season midway through the first half before Bremen, the better side throughout, deservedly leveled with a Per Mertesacker header in what was Bremen coach Thomas Schaaf's 400th game in charge.
Borussia Dortmund leads the standings on 52, 10 ahead of second-placed Bayer Leverkusen.
Meanwhile, Borussia Moenchengladbach has appointed Swiss Lucien Favre as its new coach after sacking Michael Frontzeck on Sunday, the Bundesliga's bottom-placed club said yesterday.
"The 53-year-old will run his first training session on Tuesday," the club said in a statement, giving no details on the length of his contract.
'Gladbach, which has lost three of its last four games and suffered a 1-3 defeat by St Pauli on Saturday, is bottom on 16 points from 22 games.
Favre, who coached FC Zurich to two Swiss titles, has Bundesliga experience after steering Hertha Berlin to a fourth-place finish in 2009.
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