Hoffenheim vs Mainz prediction: GERMANY: Bundesliga betting tips on match 2025-04-11 13:30.
[p]A concerning run of one win across their last six Bundesliga fixtures (D3, L2) leaves Hoffenheim vulnerable to being sucked into a relegation scrap with just six league games remaining, particularly as all of their fixtures to come are against sides above them in the table. While they are still five points ahead of the bottom three, that might not be much comfort given they’ve only once before collected fewer points than their current tally of 27 after 28 Bundesliga games. [/p]
[p]That was in 2012/13 (23) when they only managed to stay up via the relegation play-off, a scenario they’ll be keen to avoid again, not least because influential forward Andrej Kramarić is reportedly delaying renewing his contract until their top-flight fate is decided. Winless in home league fixtures since late November (D5, L3), things are not about to get any easier for the Kraichgauers who still have to host probable champions Bayern Munich.[/p]
[p]Next they take on Mainz, who enter this fixture still pushing to qualify for next season’s UEFA Champions League following last Saturday’s 1-1 draw with struggling Holstein Kiel. They’re winless in three league games (D2, L1) for the first time this calendar year but will hope for better as they take on an opponent who have beaten them just once across the last nine H2Hs (W6, D2).[/p]
[p]They’ve struggled here of late though, winning neither of their last two visits to the PreZero Arena (D1, L1), so they’ll be ready for a battle despite winning three of their last four Bundesliga road fixtures (L1). But they do have history on their side here, as they’ve beaten Hoffenheim (15 times) more often than they have any other club in the Bundesliga. [/p]
[p]Players to watch: Hoffenheim’s Tom Bischof opened the scoring against Leipzig last weekend (L 3-1) with his fifth league goal of the season – three of the last four of those strikes were his side’s first of the game. Mainz’s Nelson Weiper was on target against Kiel with his third Bundesliga goal of the season, all of them coming in games that produced exactly two goals.[/p]
[p]Hot stat: Hoffenheim haven’t kept a clean sheet in an all-time record 34 Bundesliga home games.[/p]
[p][i]Written by John Pennington[/i][/p]