For Baumgartner it was the third goal of the season, for Posch it was the professional premiere at club level.
With their goals, the soccer team players Christoph Baumgartner and Stefan Posch played a significant part in the deserved 5-0 home win of TSG Hoffenheim over 1. FC Köln on Friday evening. Baumgartner, who had missed Austria's most recent international matches with a muscle injury as well as a game for his club before, scored 3-0 after a short distance counterattack (51st). Shortly before the end, Posch made the final score with a perfect Köpfler into the Kreuzeck (87th).
For the 22-year-old Baumgartner it was the third goal of the season, for the 24-year-old defender Posch it was the premiere in a club game at professional level. Furthermore, Ihlas Bebou (31st, 49th) and Dennis Geiger (73rd) let the hosts cheer at the start of the eighth round of the German Bundesliga. Florian Grillitsch acted as the third ÖFB team kicker for Hoffenheim, he played like Posch. Florian Kainz started in Cologne, he alternated with Louis Schaub in the 56th.
Hoffenheim had recently won only one of the last six Bundesliga games. The Cologne team have been unbeaten under coach Steffen Baumgart for five games and suffered their seventh consecutive defeat against Hoffenheim. TSG improved to eighth place in the table, one point behind Cologne.
