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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2016 59 Sport FOOTBALL Bayern drop first points in 1-1 draw with Cologne BAYERN Munich's perfect Bun- desliga start came to a screech- ing halt when they drew 1-1 with visiting Cologne on Saturday after winning their first five matches of the season. The Bavarians, who lost to Atletico Madrid in the Cham- pions League in midweek, hit the woodwork three times and controlled the game but failed to make their dominance count, with Cologne protecting their undefeated run this season. The hosts struggled against the hard-working Cologne de- fenders for 40 minute before Joshua Kimmich finally broke the deadlock, diving to head in a beautiful Juan Bernat cross for the lead. Thomas Mueller came close to adding another four minutes af- ter the restart as did Robert Le- wandowski, with Bayern keeping up the pressure and looking to kill off the game. But it was Co- logne who scored when striker Anthony Modeste timed his run to perfection, taking off inside the box to volley a cross into the back of Manuel Neuer's net for his fifth goal of the campaign. The hosts were left stunned for a few minute with Cologne trying to hit them again on the counter-attack and Yuya Osako's effort was ruled out for off-side. Cologne keeper Timo Horn made the save of the day when he punched a point-blank Mueller volley on to the crossbar and the Bavarians also hit the woodwork with a powerful low drive by Bernat five minutes from time.