Cologne 1-4 Freiburg
Goals: 0-1 Petersen (18'), 0-2 Demirovic (20'), 1-2 Andersson (50'), 1-3 Grifo (90'+3), 1-4 Schmid (90'+4)

Cologne's prospects of climbing out of the automatic relegation zone were dealt a blow in the 18th minute when Petersen picked off Ellyes Skhiri's errant pass to teammate Sebastiaan Bornauw, and fired beyond Timo Horn. Demirovic gave the Billy Goats a mountain to climb barely 120 seconds later, the Bosnian striker steering home Grifo's long-range effort following a fine Roland Sallai run and pass. Hungarian Sallai had the chance to make it three before a one-sided first half was up, but could not beat Horn in a very presentable one-on-one.

Despite offering diddly-squat as an attacking unit in the first period, Cologne reduced the arrears soon after the restart as Sebastian Andersson met substitute Ismail Jakobs's inch-perfect cross with a superb first-time finish. After Florian Kainz flashed a volley wide, Lukas Kübler brought down the effervescent Jakobs for a penalty. Ondrej Duda stepped up, but slipped as he connected with the ball and ballooned over the crossbar. Jan Thielmann had an effort ruled out for an earlier handball against Jonas Hector in a frantic finale, with breakaway goals from Grifo and substitute Jonathan Schmid compounding second-bottom Cologne's misery.

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Freiburg dent Cologne's survival hopes