📊 Form Guide

Strasbourg

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Strasbourg will be hoping to bounce back here following the 2-0 Conference League loss in their previous game against Mainz.

In that game, Strasbourg had 66% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. At the other end, Mainz 05 got 17 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Kaishu Sano (11') and Stefan Posch (19') scored for Mainz.

It has not been often in recent times that Strasbourg have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Strasbourg have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 7 goals on the way. That aside, we’ll just have to find out whether that trend will be sustained in this match.

Mainz

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After tasting defeat last time out to Freiburg in Bundesliga action, Mainz will be hoping to turn things around here.

A succession of resolute showings from the Mainz defenders has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded standing at 2 from their past 6 outings in total. In that time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves amounts to 10.

ℹ️ Team News: Strasbourg

In our view, Le Racing look set to use the 4-3-1-2 formation for this one, handing starts to Mike Penders, Guela Doue, Ismael Doukoure, Andrew Omobamidele, Ben Chilwell, Samir El Mourabet, Maxi Oyedele, Valentin Barco, Gessime Yassine, Julio Enciso and Martial Godo.

📰 Team News: Mainz

Mainz boss Urs Fischer has a number of players out of action. Silas (Tibia and fibula fracture), Benedict Hollerbach (Achilles tendon rupture), Maxim Leitsch (Hamstring injury), Jae-sung Lee (Toe injury), Robin Zentner (Fitness), Stefan Bell (Fitness) and Kasey Bos (Shoulder injury) will miss out on this game. Fabio Moreno Fell is ineligible for this match because of suspension.

We reckon that Mainz could decide to elect for a 3-5-2 system by sending out Daniel Batz, Danny da Costa, Stefan Posch, Dominik Kohr, Silvan Widmer, Paul Nebel, Kaishu Sano, Sota Kawasaki, Phillipp Mwene, Nelson Weiper and Phillip Tietz.

⚡ Prediction

We’re thinking that Mainz will do well to score against this Strasbourg outfit who we think will likely emerge victorious.

We’re going for a very competitive encounter with a 1-0 winning margin for Strasbourg at the end of the 90.

There should be little in it.

Peter Guest, 18:01 16/04/2026