Read our prediction for Bayer Leverkusen vs Mainz below. This preview was written by a sport journalist who is specialised in betting tips and predictions. Use our betting tips for the match between Bayer Leverkusen vs Mainz and you can increase your winnings!
Bayer Leverkusen vs Mainz Prediction & Betting tips
Bayer Leverkusen needs victories in its hunt for a Champions League ticket. It should be possible to take the full three points on Saturday when low flyer FSV Mainz 05 comes to visit the Rhineland.
Bayer Leverkusen:
The first month of this new calendar year was by no means successful for Bayer Leverkusen. Die Werkself lost no less than four times in the competition, making the excellent prospects for a top four classification less good. In addition, Bayer was also eliminated from the national cup tournament, by the small Rot Weiss Essen (2-1, n.v.). Last weekend, however, it played well, in the home match against VfB Stuttgart. That team is performing well on foreign soil this season, but the PhD candidate had little to say in the BayArena. Leverkusen won sovereignly, 5-2.
Winter-Neuzugang Timothy Fosu-Mensah participated for over an hour in the match against Stuttgart. The right back spoke this week about his move from Manchester United to Bayer Leverkusen. “The team welcomed me warmly,” said the right back. “There is a nice team spirit,” said Fosu-Mensah, who was further looking forward to the European matches that await Leverkusen. “I think the team is strong enough to get further in the Europa League than last year.” Last season, the Rijnlanders made it to the quarter-finals, in which losing finalist Internazionale proved to be too strong 2-1. Next week Leverkusen will play against BSC Young Boys, in the sixteenth finals.
Mainz 05:
For FSV Mainz 05, this season is all about preventing relegation. Mainz has done itself a good service twice in the past few weeks. The last two home games were both turned into wins. First there was the surprising 3-2 win over RB Leipzig. And after a 2-0 away defeat at VfB Stuttgart, Mainz won again in its own Opel Arena last weekend. In the match against FC Union Berlin, which was full of duels and fighting spirit, good football was hard to find. At Die Nullfunfer, no one was therefore concerned, as the team left the field with a 1-0 win.
Mainz is still under the damned line, but the recently achieved points have brought about a connection with the teams above the red and white. Number seventeen Mainz is now only four points behind on the safe fifteenth spot, where Hertha BSC camps. Jeremiah St. Juste is usually the base player at Mainz, while the other former Feyenoord player Jean-Paul Boetius usually starts from the bench. Perhaps the latter may start on Saturday, because Robin Quaison has a question mark behind his name for this game.
Bayer Leverkusen vs Mainz head to head matches
17.10.20 BUN Mainz Bayer Leverkusen 0 : 1
27.06.20 BUN Bayer Leverkusen Mainz 1 : 0
21.12.19 BUN Mainz Bayer Leverkusen 0 : 1
08.02.19 BUN Mainz Bayer Leverkusen 1 : 5
23.09.18 BUN Bayer Leverkusen Mainz 1 : 0
Betting tips we recommend:
Prediction: | Bayer Leverkusen to win |
Selection odds: | 1,44 |