Top-four hopefuls Borussia Dortmund travel to RheinEnergieStadion to take on relegation-threatened FC Koln in the Bundesliga on Saturday afternoon.
The two teams meet for the first time since the opening weekend of the season back in August last year when Dortmund claimed a slender 1-0 victory at Westfalenstadion.
David Selke netted his fifth goal of the campaign to open the scoring just before the half-hour mark, but Heidenheim fought back and rescued a point courtesy of a second-half strike from substitute Adrian Beck.
Timo Schultz's side, who have won just one of their last nine league games since the end of October, were one of five teams in the bottom six who picked up a point in gameweek 17, and as a result remain 17th in the table, level on points with Mainz 05 in the relegation playoff position and three points adrift of Union Berlin in 15th spot.
Challenging times are ahead for Koln both on an off the pitch, as the club are forced to contend with two full seasons with a transfer embargo following a ruling upheld by the Court for Arbitration of Sport (CAS) last month. Schultz is therefore tasked to get the best out of the players at his disposal in their bid to avoid the drop.
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