Mainz vs Stuttgart prediction: GERMANY: Bundesliga betting tips on match 2025-01-24 14:30.
[p]Mainz have lost back-to-back league games for the first time under the tutelage of Bo Henriksen, who was appointed back in February 2024. Both defeats, at Bayer Leverkusen (1-0) and Union Berlin (2-1) have come by a one-goal margin, but having won six of their seven games prior to this run (L1), they’re still well placed to challenge for European qualification this season.[/p]
[p]Sat sixth in the table pre-round, Henriksen’s side now need to get back to winning ways if they’re to make their European qualification ambitions a reality for the first time since the 2016/17 season. There’s every reason to believe, as they’ve won their last four games on home soil, scoring 2+ goals in each victory and now they have a chance to equal a top-flight club record with a fifth successive Bundesliga triumph at the MEWA Arena. [/p]
[p]Stuttgart also have their eyes on the prize of a second successive European finish. After keeping their UEFA Champions League hope alive in midweek with victory at Slovan Bratislava (3-1), Sebastian Hoeneß’s side have now lost just once in their last ten games across all competitions (W8, D1), winning the most recent four in that sequence.[/p]
[p]Only once since their title-winning campaign in 2006/07 have the Reds had more points at this stage of the season than their current tally of 32, which sees them sat fourth in the Bundesliga this term. And while title aspirations for this campaign may be far-fetched, there are very few sides in the division in better form than Stuttgart across the last five rounds (W4, L1).[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Five of Jae-Sung Lee’s eight league goal involvements (G5, A3) this season have come in the first half – he has never won a Bundesliga game against Stuttgart (D2, L4). Jeff Chabot remains unbeaten in five H2Hs with Mainz (W1, D4) having been booked in three of those meetings, including this season’s reverse fixture.[/p]
[p]Hot stat: Stuttgart have scored 11 league goals in the final 15 minutes of regular time this season, a tally which can only be bettered by two sides in the division pre-round.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Ben Olawumi[/i][/p]