RB Leipzig vs Mainz Bundesliga Match Preview or Key Statistics 💬
💬Leipzig won their two Bundesliga games against Mainz last season 8-0 at home and 5-0 away. Only once has a team won both meetings with an opponent by a higher aggregate score,
💬Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1984/85 against Eintracht Braunschweig (10-0 home, 4-0 away).
💬RB Leipzig's 8-0 victory over Mainz on MD10 of the 2019/20 Bundesliga season was Leipzigs highest ever win in professional football, as well as Mainz's worst ever defeat. Since 2001,
💬FC Bayern are the only other team that have managed such a victory in the league (most recently 8-0 over Hamburg in February 2017).
💬Leipzig have lost only one of their eight games against Mainz in all competitions, 0-3 away on MD32 in 2017/18 (W5 D2). At home,
💬Leipzig have won 10 of 12 possible league points against Mainz (W3 D1).
💬Mainz conceded 65 goals last season, more than ever before in their 14 seasons in the Bundesliga. 30 of the goals (also the 0-8 in Leipzig) were conceded in their 11 games under Sandro Schwarz (2.7 per game), the other 35 in 23 games under Achim Beierlorzer (1.5 per game).
💬RB Leipzig are winless in their last six home games in the Bundesliga (D5 L1), their longest ever such run in the competition. In their last five Bundesliga away games (W2 D2 L1) Mainz have won three more points than Leipzig have in their last six home games (D5 L1).
💬For the first time ever, Leipzig will play at home in the opening game of a Bundesliga season. Mainz will play away for the seventh time on MD1, and are winless in their previous six (D2 L4). Leipzig scored 20 goals in the last 15 minutes of Bundesliga games in 2019/20, a joint league-high matched only by Frankfurt.
💬On the other hand, Leipzig also conceded the most goals from the 90th minute onward out of any team in the league (7).
💬Leipzigs Yussuf Poulsen has been directly involved in nine goals (4 goals, 5 assists) in his eight Bundesliga games against Mainz - against no other team has he been involved in more than five goals.
💬Last season he scored two goals and provided three assists in his two games vs Mainz.
💬Mainz's Robin Quaison scored 13 league goals in 2019/20. In Mainz' Bundesliga history only three have players managed more goals in one season: Jean-Philippe Matetain 2018/19 (14), Shinji Okazaki in 2013/14 (15) and Andre Schürle in 2010/11 (15).
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