Competition: German Budesliga
Game: Mainz vs Dortmund
Venue: Coface Arena
Date: 16/10/2015 @ 7.30 pm
Mainz
Mainz is coming from a 2-3 away win against Darmstadt in its last game for the league, after suffering 2 consecutive defeats against Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich without scoring a single goal in them. It should be mentioned that Mainz is not faring very well at home as it has had 2 wins and 2 defeats in 4 home games, scoring and conceding at least 1 goal per game in 6 and 7 games respectively from a total of 8 clashes this season.
Possible line-up in a 4-4-2 formation: Karius, Balogun, Bell, Bungert, Bengtsson, Baumgartlinger, Latza, Clemens, Malli, Jairo, Muto
Dortmund
Dortmund’s head coach, Thomas Tuchel, has been Mainz’s head coach for 5 years before leaving the team in dramatic fashion. The break from the league games, due to the Euro 2016 qualification round games over the last week, has been ideal for Dortmund which had picked up just 2 points in its last 3 games, suffering a disappointing 5-1 away defeat from Bayern in its last game.
Dortmund has scored at least 3 goals per game in 5 of its 8 so far games this season and has scored at least 1 goal per game in all of these 8 games. It is also worth mentioning that it has had 7 over goals outcomes and a 10-8 goals’ aggregate in 4 away games this season.
Possible line up in a 4-2-3-1 formation: Burki, Ginter, Sokratis, Hummels, Park, Weigl, Reus, Gundogan, Kagawa, Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang
Prediction
Based on the ease with which these 2 teams score and concede goals: goal/goal and over 2.5 goals, odd: 1.80 @ BET365