Borussia Monchengladbach vs FSV Mainz Bundesliga Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Borussia Monchengladbach are unbeaten in their last eight Bundesliga games again st Mainz (W6, D2), with their most recent defeat coming back in January 2016 (1-0 in Mainz thanks to a Christian Clemens goal).
Gladbach have won each of the last four Bundesliga meetings between the two sides (11-2 aggregate goal record). Mainz’s last win against Borussia was in the 201 5/16 season, when they actually did the double over the Foals (2-1 A, 1-0 H).
Having lost all four of their games so far with a 2-12 aggregate goal record, this is 1. FSV Mainz 05's worst ever Bundesliga start.
The only other time they have started with four straight defeats was in 2005/06 (1-8 aggregate goal record). Mainz have lost five of their last six Bundesliga home games (otherwise beating Werder Bremen 3-1 on MD33 in 2019/20).
The Zerofivers have failed to score in four of those six match es. Mainz sit last in the table for the first time since matchday 3 last season - they haven't been bottom of the pile this far Into a Bundesllga season since they were relegated in 2006/07 (following MD18).
Gladbach have scored four goals from set pieces this season (2 penalties, 2 corners) - a league high alongside Leipzig and Werder. Mainz. on the other hand, have conceded four goals from dead balls, with only Schalke (7) and Hertha (5) letting in more.
Mainz have failed to produce a shot on target in either of their two games under Jan-Moritz Lichte ~ no other side has gone without a shot on target in a Bundesliga match this season.
Gladbach‘s Jonas Hofmann - who played for Mainz in 2014/15 (3 goals in 10 BL games) - scored his only Bundesliga hat-trick to date against Mainz, in Borussia’s 4-0 win in October 2018.
Jan-Moritz Lichte is the second Mainz head coach to lose his first two games in charge, after Sandro Schwarz. Schwarz's first win back then came at the third attempt (3-1 vs. Leverkusen).
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