Bundesliga: What this game might miss in elegance it should pay back in energy and commitment. Let's go: FSV Mainz 05 - TSG Hoffenheim!
- TSG Hoffenheim is in the worst form (0-1-5)
Both squads have had time to rest since their previous work day in an official game. Let's have faith in that this will be an enthusiastic fixture!
FSV Mainz 05 form and stats
FSV Mainz 05 have collected 16 points from their Bundesliga home games so far after 4-4-3. FSV Mainz 05 are on a three game winning streak in their home games.
A nice win for FSV Mainz 05 last time playing, versus Borussia M'gladbach. That was also a home game and the match ended 4-0 with Lee, Weiper, Ajorque and Ingvartsen scoring for the victors. As indicated by the result mentioned above, FSV Mainz 05 played a great game against Borussia M'gladbach and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. The attacker Lee was named "man of the match" for Mainz with a rating of 8.31/10. Lee scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
In the preceding match a 3-2 victory visiting Bayer Leverkusen.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does FSV Mainz 05 handle that role? We have found 12 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 4 wins, 5 draws and 3 defeats.
Scoring bonanza? We don't know what will happen in this one, but we do know that 9 of the 12 latest league games with this side has had at least three goals.
Mainz have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at OPEL ARENA with 21 goals in 11 league matches. It's worth mentioning that 12 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. 14 goals have been conceded.
TSG Hoffenheim form and stats
There's been little loot from TSG Hoffenheim's travels as they have only collected 8 points from 10 away games in the Bundesliga. TSG Hoffenheim only have 2 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 2 draws. It's all red in the travel logs of TSG Hoffenheim, having lost four matches in a row as the visiting team.
Hoffenheim aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 193 league minutes without a goal. Nsoki was the last player to find the net.
TSG Hoffenheim failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Borussia Dortmund (placed 1st) that ended with defeat 0-1. TSG Hoffenheim goalkeeper Baumann took pride in a first-class shift vs Borussia Dortmund, but even with registering eleven saves the beating could not be evaded.
Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting FC Augsburg's place.Hoffenheim are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats. From a total of 5 matches.
Goal hungry football fans should note that 8 of this side's 10 most recent league rounds have ended with at least three goals.
TSG Hoffenheim are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 14 away goals from 10 games (in the league). Hoffenheim struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 19 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
TSG Hoffenheim - FSV Mainz 05 4-1 was the score in these teams' previous head-to-head match, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): FSV Mainz 05 five wins, one draw and TSG Hoffenheim four victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less. The games between these clubs have had a tendency to be hostile, having seen 5 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  K. Onisiwo 8 goals |  M. Ingvartsen 8 goals |  J. Lee 7 goals |
FSV Mainz 05 missing players
TSG Hoffenheim missing players
| FSV Mainz 05 | TSG Hoffenheim | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 22 |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 37 | 21 | 9 | Scored | S | 5 | 14 | 29 |
| 34 | 14 | 4 | Conceded | C | 4 | 19 | 41 |
| 95% | 91% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 95% |
| 86% | 91% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 77% |
| 64% | 64% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 60% | 64% |
| 32% | 36% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 40% | 45% |
| 23% | 18% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 23% |
| 64% | 55% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 60% | 64% |
| 23% | 27% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 20% | 18% |
| 18% | 27% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 23% |
| 4.6 | 4.2 | 3.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 4.1 | 5.2 |
| 4 | 3.9 | 5.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 4.9 | 4.7 |
| 2 | 1.4 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 2.7 | 2.4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 13.1 | 13.9 | 13.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.3 | 9.4 | 13 |
| 4.4 | 5 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 3.1 | 4.4 |
| 38% | 38% | 60% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 71% | 45% | 30% |
| 12.6 | 10.1 | 10.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 14.3 | 13.5 |
| 4.1 | 3.1 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 5.2 | 5.2 |
- TSG Hoffenheim have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- TSG Hoffenheim haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- TSG Hoffenheim is in the worst form (0-1-5)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Borussia Dortmund | 22 | 15 | 1 | 6 | 45 | 27 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 46 |
| 2 | Bayern München | 21 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 61 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 31 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 30 | 13 | 40 | 43 |
| 3 | Union Berlin | 21 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 24 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 11 | 43 |
| 4 | RB Leipzig | 22 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 45 | 27 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 17 | 18 | 42 |
| 5 | Freiburg | 21 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 34 | 31 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 23 | 3 | 40 |
| 6 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 22 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 43 | 31 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 26 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 18 | 12 | 38 |
| 7 | Wolfsburg | 22 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 40 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 33 |
| 8 | FSV Mainz 05 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 37 | 34 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 3 | 32 |
| 9 | Werder Bremen | 22 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 34 | 41 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 20 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 23 | -7 | 30 |
| 10 | Borussia M'gladbach | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 38 | 39 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 25 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 24 | -1 | 29 |
| 11 | Bayer Leverkusen | 21 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 35 | 35 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 0 | 27 |
| 12 | Köln | 22 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 32 | 36 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 24 | -4 | 26 |
| 13 | FC Augsburg | 22 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 26 | 38 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 23 | -12 | 24 |
| 14 | Hertha BSC | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 27 | 40 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 21 | -13 | 20 |
| 15 | Stuttgart | 22 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 27 | 38 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 25 | -11 | 19 |
| 16 | TSG Hoffenheim | 22 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 29 | 41 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 22 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 19 | -12 | 19 |
| 17 | VfL Bochum 1848 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 24 | 54 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 35 | -30 | 19 |
| 18 | Schalke 04 | 22 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 42 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 26 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 16 | -26 | 16 |
