Mainz vs Werder Bremen Match Preview

Mainz is ranked at 15th place with 34 points and comes after two wins a draw and two losses over the last five matches. A surprising 0-2 win on the road against Dortmund helped them create more distance with Dusseldorf and Werder Bremen. Now they would need just one point to secure their stay in Bundesliga for the next season.

At home, Mainz hasn't been anything special so far and even lost the last three games in a row without scoring a single goal, but today they know a false step would ruin what they accomplished against Dortmund, so they will give it all in order to get a positive result. Considering also the fact that their rivals have a leaky defense, I fancy their chances to find the back of the net. They managed to beat Werder Bremen 0-5 on the previous game this season.

Werder Bremen, on the other hand, is ranked at the 17th place with 28 points and comes after two wins and three losses over the last five matches. Their goal now is to try and reach the playout spot but in order to do that they need to win both remaining games and hope for Dusseldorf to lose or draw at least once. The positive news for them is the fact that Werder this season has performed way better on the road, actually getting 22 of their 28 points playing away from home. They also scored 26 goals and conceded 30 which is a much better stat than the ones at home. So I think we should see them fully motivated to get another away victory here and to do so they must try to score. Rashica and Klaassen are the ones who should lead their offensive side and in the last games, we have seen them produce some fine performances.

In conclusion, I expect both teams to score at least a goal. Mainz could win this game and mathematically end their season securing their spot, so they will try to do that in order not to complicate things for the last week. Werder Bremen must win today in order to keep their hopes alive for the next game because it would be worth double. We saw each team find the back of the net at least once in four of the last five h2h games between them.