📊 Form Guide

Mainz

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Mainz will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 1-2 Bundesliga victory against St. Pauli.

In that match, Mainz managed 48% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. For Mainz, the goals were scored by Phillip Tietz (6') and Philipp Mwene (40'). At the other end, St. Pauli got 10 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Abdoulie Ceesay (87') scored for St. Pauli.

It’s been seldom in recent times that Mainz have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Mainz have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 11 goals on the way.

Their previous form shows that Mainz:

• have not registered a win against Union Berlin in their previous 9 matches in the league.
• are without a home win in the past 2 matches in the league.

Union Berlin

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In the game prior to this, Union Berlin drew 2-2 in the Bundesliga match with Cologne.

In that match, Union Berlin had 58% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 2 on target. For Union Berlin, the goalscorers were Tom Rothe (73') and Livan Burcu (89'). At the other end, Cologne got 8 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Marius Bülter (33') and Saïd El Mala (61') scored for Cologne.

Demonstrating their predisposition for action-packed encounters, the back of the net has been hit 21 times in the last 6 games in which Union Berlin have taken to the pitch, giving an average of 3.5 goals each clash. Opposition teams have got 15 of these goals. Nevertheless, we must now wait to see if the trend might persist in this match.

Leading up to this clash, Union Berlin:

• have not won against Mainz in away games against them for the last 3 league matches.
• have not lost to Mainz when having played them away from home in the previous 4 league matches. An impressive run.
• have not won away from home in their last 3 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head meetings going back to 04/02/2023 shows us that Mainz have won 0 of these & Union Berlin 3, with the tally of draws being 3.

In all, 19 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 7 for Mainz and 12 being from Union. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.

The previous league match between these clubs was Bundesliga match day 16 on 10/01/2026 when it ended Union Berlin 2-2 Mainz.

On that occasion, Union Berlin had 56% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The scorers were Woo-yeong Jeong (77') and Marin Ljubičić (86').

For their opponents, Mainz had 9 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Nadiem Amiri (30') and Benedict Hollerbach (69') scored.

The referee was Bastian Dankert.

📋 Team News: Mainz

We think that Mainz will possibly make use of the 3-3-2-2 formation for this game, beginning the first half with Robin Zentner, Danny da Costa, Stefan Posch, Dominik Kohr, Anthony Caci, Kaishu Sano, Phillipp Mwene, Paul Nebel, Nadiem Amiri, Phillip Tietz and Sheraldo Becker.

ℹ️ Team News: Union Berlin

It’s our belief that Union might begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation, choosing Carl Klaus, Christopher Trimmel, Diogo Leite, Danilho Doekhi, Tom Rothe, Rani Khedira, Aljoscha Kemlein, Oliver Burke, Ilyas Ansah, Livan Burcu and Andrej Ilic.

⚡ Prediction

We believe that Union Berlin certainly have the ability to put one past this Mainz outfit, but that possibly won’t quite prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We are anticipating a narrow 2-1 winning margin for Mainz at the end of the 90 minutes. Should be an interesting one.

Victor Martins, 17:03 10/05/2026