On January 25, the Meva Arena will host the match of the 17th round of the Bundesliga 1, in which Mainz will meet Borussia Dortmund. The start of the fight is scheduled for 18:30 European time.
Mainz
The club exactly 2 years ago called for the coaching post of their own former defender, Bo Svensson. At first, the Dane earned good reviews – with him, the “carnival” noticeably added. First, he provided a rise from the danger zone. And last season, even the team was able to take part in the dispute for European cups. However, there were not enough forces, and as a result, everything ended only in 8th place, with a rather serious backlog from the neighbor “from above”. Now “Mainz” rolled back to the middle peasants. The first, autumn segment, he finished with 5 wins and 19 points in 15 rounds, which only allowed him to close the top 10. After a long pause with Stuttgart, there was only a draw, 1-1.
Borussia Dortmund
The team last season regained the status of vice-champion of the country. But in general, Marco Rose did not justify the hopes, and cooperation with him ended after the 1st year – and after all, the specialist was persistently and not particularly beautifully lured away from Mönchengladbach. They returned to Edin Terzic as a coach, but with a full contract, and not in the status of “acting”. But so far, even with him, the results are extremely unstable. Moreover, this time the “black and yellow” are successful in other tournaments, for example, they reached the playoffs of the Champions League, which was not possible in 2021. But even there it was enough to get ahead of the now weak Sevilla and Copenhagen. And there were a lot of misfires in the Bundesliga. In November, the “bumblebees” completely lost in a row to “Wolfsburg” and the “namesake” from Mönchengladbach, which is why they fell back to 6th place, albeit with a minimal lag behind their competitors. We almost lost points in the new round – Augsburg fought back three times, missing. But Reina still scored the final 4-3.
head-to-head statistics
All 3 last full-time matches were won by Borussia.
Forecast
Bookmakers believe in Borussia Dortmund. But she can mess up again, so it’s better to limit yourself to an offer with “total over 2.5 goals” with a coefficient of – 1.64 at Parimatch.
