FSV Mainz 05 - Bayer Leverkusen

Statistic:

- Only against Nürnberg (8) collected FSV more wins as against Leverkusen (7) and SCF (7).
- The record against Leverkusen is positive with 7-4-6.
- Leverkusen has a very weak average with 1,29 Points against FSV.
- Since 3 games is Mainz unbeaten, they are 1-3-0 in this period.
- This match against Leverkusen is their 300. BL match (100 wins, 85 draw and 114 defeats).
- Leverkusen won all their last 5 BL games and all to nil. This is a new club record in their history.
- 6 matches without conceding a single goal happened never till now for Bayer.
- Mainz is the team with the most draws in the league (13).

After Mainz fired their Coach they gave with Schmidt a man a chance who comes from the second team. He knew the situation very well and he has the experience from Tuchel and how Mainz was playing in this period. He gave the team all the trust back and they are doing well since then. They are a team who is hard to beat because only 3 defeats 2015 show this. The team is more balanced now and they are playing much better and the compactness leads in success. Also the more trust in their new style of play. With Geis they have a real great free kick shooter in their rows what give them always the opportunity to score after his free kicks, corners and so on. In this actions they are very dangerous. Maybe they have to change the tactic a bit compared to matches before but this should not be such a problem. They had already Wolfsburg and some other big teams short before a lost in their stadium, so why not high flying Leverkusen now.

The current best team comes from Leverkusen, they are high flying at the moment with five wins in a row and 13-0 goals in this period. Overall they are a very good and solid team but international they missed the biggest opportunity to advance against ATM after penalties. The focus lies now on Bundesliga and the race for third and important place, therefore they have to continue winning and hope that Gladbach their biggest rival fail. But first they have to recover from a hard Cup game against Bayern Munich. If they had the luck on their side they could have won this but once again they failed after penalties. The next big thing is that Spahic was involved in some kind of brawl after the game. All are not very pleased about him and it looks like that he is not in the squad today. Because of Papadopoulos suspension they can get some problems in central back today. The next thing can be if the head is free and the legs are fresh.

This is the next close encounter, Leverkusen has 120 minutes in their legs and Mainz could prepare the whole week. Both are in good form and both are on an unbeaten run already. This can be a hard match what hurt Leverkusen if they can not took the lead as to the end of the game I am expecting Mainz as the fresher side and they are able to overcome Leverkusen then. It was seen already against Wolfsburg when Mainz was close to win in the end. I believe in them today.

Recommend Bet: FSV Mainz 05 AHC +0,25 @ 2,04 (3 Units)