Afternoon all, and welcome to Cologne v Mainz!

It's been bothering me, who Uth reminds me of. But you'll be glad to know that now I know: it's Utz hams from Mad Men.

Leistner pulls down two men, one of his own and one of Mainz's. As such, Kunde will now direct a ball into the box, but picks out Horn's gloves as if doing so deliberately.

A bit of tooing and froing in midfield.

I'm not sure. The empty stands are a decent reminder of what's what, and remind us of what we're hoping for.

It's too far to shoot and too straight to force and angle for a cross, so Boetius tries a dink which wins a corner. FC don't get it away properly, but Onisiwo plays a stray pass which rolls behind.

Boetius strides towards the Koln box so Hector brings him down and is booked. Free-kick Mainz, 30 yards out, dead centre.

A terrible square ball from Baku sends Uth dashing towards the box and he has Cordoba up with him - this is like a two-on-two training exercise. But Uth overhits his pass, allowing Niakhate to slide in an rob Cordoba.

Bornauw rams in the back of Quaison, and the ref has a little word.

Chalk it off imo.

Better from Mainz, Onisiwo taking possession on the edge of the box, turning, and nashing around the outside of FC's back line before cutting back for Boetius ... whose punched side-footer is deflected behind. The resultant corner comes to nothing.

Bit of possession for Mainz down the left, but nothing comes of it. By the looks of things, FC are targeting the space in between Mainz's centre-backs and wing-backs, or in other words a 3-5-2 is easy to plan for.

Still the greatest genre of tweet there is.

It's been a good start from FC - Mainz have barely left their own half or strung two passes together.

GOAL! FC Koln 1-0 Mainz (Uth pen) Uth smacks a sidefooter, left-footed, across Muller and into the side-netting. Nicely done.

There's a long, eerie break for VAR as Uth prowls around the spot. I'm not sure what's to check.

PENALTY TO FC! Leistner hits a long pass - there've been a few already - and Cordoba lays off adroitly, Uth's foot shooting up knee-eight to drag the ball into stride from behind him. It's a lovely touch and sends him marching into the box… where Niakhate clumsily trips him!

Mainz are playing 3-4-3, with Fernandes in the middle of the defence. Er, ok.

Seventeen-year-old Thielman is down the left for FC at the moment.

Long ball into the box from Kainz, but Muller claims easily.

Gosh, there's something so beautiful about this.