Michael Boris: "We have to do our best"

"We are prepared for a sell-out match on Thursday night, with the opponents as the favourites. We already knew during the preparation that we can only prepare for such matches against strong opponents, it is not by chance that we have played training matches against Fenerbahce, Galatasaray or Aris Limassol, and we have been playing in a Thursday-Sunday rhythm for three weeks, so this will not be new for us. Cologne have used several game systems in the past, which they will choose tomorrow, we have to find the response. Despite Modeste's departure, Cologne's attacking strength has not weakened, we saw that in their game against Leipzig, they managed to replace him. But we are also capable of playing good football and we want to show that. We have to play to the best of our abilities, we want to get a result that will make the return leg an exciting game." - said head coach Michael Boris before the first leg of the ECL play-off against 1 FC Köln.