After an absence of practically three full years, former Köln mainstay Timo Horn will make his Bundesliga return on Saturday. Horn’s present Bundesliga membership VfL Bochum – already – have now confirmed that common keeper Patrick Drewes is sick.
VfL head coach Dieter Hecking confirmed that 31-year-old Horn can be the person to face in purpose along with his final Bundesliga look coming towards Eintracht Frankfurt on matchday 22 of the 2021/22 marketing campaign. The Köln-native stored a clear sheet that day on what was his 201st top-flight look. Horn made a complete of 299 appearances for the cathedral metropolis Geißböcke.
Former Köln coach Steffen Baumgart put in Marvin Schwäbe as Horn’s everlasting substitute that season. The heavily-capped German youth worldwide (39 caps at Germany U21 degree and beneath) by no means re-established himself on the solely skilled membership he ever represented after that. After 21 years with the Effzeh, his was launched in July 2023.
A season spent at RB Salzburg (2023/24) yielded solely three appearances. Bochum – in want of further keepers – snatched Horn up on a free this summer season to again up Drewes. Regardless of loads of criticism of Drewes’ means in his first top-flight project, neither Hecking nor earlier head coach Peter Zeidler have turned to Horn but.
“He [Horn] is skilled sufficient to deal with the state of affairs,” Hecking remarked on Friday. “It’s an superior feeling once you wait a very long time in your likelihood after which get to play within the derby.”
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