📏 Form Guide

Heidenheim

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Heidenheim will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 0-1 Bundesliga 1 victory against Darmstadt.

In that game, Heidenheim managed 54% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 5 on target. The only player to score for Heidenheim was Nikola Dovedan (91'). For their opponents, Darmstadt 98 had 11 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

It has been all too rare in recent games that Heidenheim haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Heidenheim have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 9 goals along the way.

Mainz

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In their last fixture, Mainz drew 1-1 in the Bundesliga 1 tie with Cologne.

In that game, Mainz managed 39% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Mainz was Leandro Barreiro (29'). At the other end, Cologne got 17 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Florian Kainz (95') scored for Cologne.

A series of effective performances from the Mainz defensive players has resulted in the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 3 from their previous 6 fixtures in total. In that period of time, their own forwards have managed to score 12. Nonetheless, time will tell whether that trend shall persist in this next match or not.

A look at their previous results shows us that Mainz:

• are undefeated in their previous 2 league matches away from home.
• are without an away win for the past 19 matches in the league. What a horror away run it has been.

↔️ Head to head

The previous league fixture between these clubs was Bundesliga 1 match day 15 on 16/12/2023 when it finished Mainz 0-1 Heidenheim.

That time, Mainz had 65% possession and 20 attempts on goal with 4 on target.

Heidenheim got 6 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Marvin Pieringer (12') scored.

The match was refereed by Bastian Dankert.

🗞️ Team News: Heidenheim

The Heidenheim manager Frank Schmidt will be thankful to have no fitness concerns to speak of before this game thanks to a fully injury-free group to choose from.

It’s our opinion that Heidenheim may well use the 4-2-3-1 system this time, utilising Kevin Mueller, Omar Traore, Patrick Mainka, Benedikt Gimber, Jonas Foehrenbach, Kevin Sessa, Jan Schoeppner, Eren Dinkci, Marvin Pieringer, Jan-Niklas Beste and Tim Kleindienst.

📰 Team News: Mainz

Mainz manager Bo Henriksen has not got a full squad to pick from. Stefan Bell (infection), Karim Onisiwo (Broken finger) and Jessic Ngankam (Torn muscle fiber) are names that won’t be on the team sheet. Players who are serving a ban and are therefore ineligible to play are Nadiem Amiri, Brajan Gruda and Phillipp Mwene.

We believe Mainz appear most likely to begin the game with a 3-4-2-1 system using Robin Zentner, Dominik Kohr, Sepp van den Berg, Andreas Hanche-Olsen, Silvan Widmer, Anthony Caci, Leandro Barreiro, Tom Krauss, Jonathan Burkardt, Jae-Sung Lee and Ludovic Ajorque.

🔮 Prediction

We think that Heidenheim will need to apply a lot of pressure to register a score against this Mainz lineup who should just have the edge.

We’re therefore tipping a hard-fought 0-1 victory for Mainz at the end of the match.

Let’s see how it plays out.

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Peter Guest, 17:01 05/05/2024