Steffen Baumgart: "We have to do well in attack and defence"

"I can't count on two of our players for Thursday night's game, Chabot was red carded in the first leg and Tim Lemperle will be unavailable. We expect our opponents to retreat deeper, as they did in the first leg. Our goal is clearly to reach the group stage, and to do that we need to do well not only offensively but also defensively, we want to defend forward. The work done in the last few weeks has been good, if the players can bring this intensity to the pitch we can reach our goal. The pitch is of excellent quality, our flight and hotel were fine, so everything is in place to play a good match" said 1. FC Köln head coach Steffen Baumgart ahead of Thursday night's game.