Stuttgart vs Mainz prediction: GERMANY: Bundesliga betting tips on match 2024-02-10 14:30.
Sunday’s Bundesliga double header kicks off at the home of Stuttgart, who have won their last two league games to remain in third but look unlikely to mount a title challenge at this stage as they enter the round 12 points from the peak. One of the two sides above them, Bayer Leverkusen, also knocked them out of the DFB-Pokal in midweek, but at least the hosts can now turn their full focus towards their hunt for Champions League qualification.
Despite that setback, Stuttgart have come a long way from surviving via a relegation play-off last season, and with star striker Serhou Guirassy (G17) potentially making a return if he can overcome a knock, things could be looking up. In any case, Stuttgart have remained strong at home even in his absence, going unbeaten in each of their last seven competitive outings at the MHPArena (W6, D1) with the last four victories in that sequence seeing multi-goal margins.
Visiting Mainz have had less preparation time for this clash after featuring in a rescheduled league game against Union Berlin which finished 1-1 on Wednesday. That extended their winless run of Bundesliga games to a shocking ten, surpassing even their horrid nine-game run without a win to start the season (W1, D9, L10), thus leaving them unsurprisingly fighting for their lives in the automatic relegation places.
The toothless attack of Mainz has especially held them back across their ten-game plight, failing to score more than a single goal in any of those games, a point which is made more pertinent by the fact that they’ve kept it relatively tight by conceding no more than a goal in any of those games either. A clash against Stuttgart may stretch that solid defence though, with seven conceded goals across the last two H2Hs potentially dampening any cautious optimism (L2).
Players to watch: Stuttgart’s Deniz Undav is the highest-scoring German player in the German top-flight this season (G13) and has been nominated for January’s Bundesliga player of the month award after ending it with a hat-trick against Leipzig. As for Mainz, Jonathan Burkardt finally opened his account for the season in midweek, extending his run of goalscoring appearances which saw him net first to four.
Hot stat: Stuttgart are one of only three Bundesliga sides to have scored in each of their home league games this season.