FSV Mainz vs VfB Stuttgart Bundesliga Match Preview or Key Statistics 💬
FSV Mainz 05 are currently enjoying a four-game winning streak against Stuttgart -VfB last beat them on matchday 2 in 2017 /18 (1-0 at home).
In all competitions, Mainz have lost none of their last 11 home games against Stuttgart (W7 D4), with their last such defeat coming back in September 2005 (2-1 ).
Mainz have only won their first home game of the season once in the last six years -1-0 against VfB Stuttgart in 2017.
Stuttgart have failed to win their first away game of the season in the last nine campaigns (D2 L7) -they last did so at Monchengladbach in 2008 (3-1 on MD1).
This will be VfB Stuttgart's 1,800th Bundesliga game (and their 900th away match -the same for Dortmund).
Stuttgart lie fifth in the all-time BL table. Mainz have lost seven of their last 11 Bundesliga home games (W2 D2) -they did, however, win their last home match at the end of last season -beating Bremen 3-1 on matchday 33.
When they were relegated in 2018/19, Stuttgart only won one of their 17 away games -2-0 in Nurnberg in November 2018. VfB only took six points on the road that season. Paul Nebel came off the bench in Leipzig on matchday 1 to become Mainz's youngest ever Bundesliga player (17Y, 346D).
He broke Mario Vrancic's record, who was 1 5 days older when he made his debut for the Zerofivers. Stuttgart's Sasa Kalajdzic came on after 65 minutes on matchday 1 and averaged a shot every six minutes (more often than any other player who played at least 10 minutes).
He also managed a goal on his Bundesliga debut. Mainz striker Jean-Philippe Mateta has scored four goals in his two competitive appearances this season, with all of them coming in the second half. He only netted three times across all competitions in 2019/20.
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