Mainz 05 vs Augsburg Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 8th February 2025

Mainz 05 enjoy home advantage, when visitors Augsburg swing by this coming Saturday for a clash in the Bundesliga. The former will be looking to make that home advantage count.

Mainz 05 approach round 21 as number 6 in the Bundesliga table with 31 points on their account so far. With 20 rounds behind them, Augsburg have amassed 26 points, placing them as number 12 in the standings.

The last time Mainz 05 played Augsburg, they booked three points to their account and look well primed to secure another win this coming Saturday.

Mainz 05 step into their next home match this coming Saturday having scored a nice average of 1.8 goals in ten matches. They managed a total of 18 goals, while also allowing ten goals against. That is an average of one goals against per match. They were able to hang on to a clean sheet four times in those matches.

Augsburg scored 11 goals, conceded 15 and managed three clean sheets in their previous ten matches.

Mainz 05 won the last two meetings against Augsburg, as they followed up a 1-0 win by beating their upcoming opponent by a 3-2 score.

Mainz 05 vs Augsburg Prediction

Mainz 05 Form

Mainz 05 are currently performing inconsistently, as they lost against Union Berlin by a 2-1 score, before winning 2-0 against VfB Stuttgart. They were back on the losing side in a 1-0 defeat against Werder Bremen. Mainz 05 showed little mercy in their past six matches at the MEWA Arena, of which they won five and drew once. Going undefeated, they hit the target 12 times, while letting in three themselves.

Augsburg Form

Augsburg have been inconsistent in their last three matches. They claimed a 2-1 win against FC Heidenheim, before drawing 1-1 with St. Pauli. This little streak came to an end, when VfB Stuttgart proved too strong in a 1-0 defeat for Augsburg. In their last six away matches in the Bundesliga, Augsburg won twice, while also recording two draws. They endured two defeats in this run, with a scoreline from these matches saying 11 goals conceded and eight scored.

Head-to-head encounters tend to bring out the best in both sides, and we fully expect the trend to continue, when Mainz 05 renew Augsburg their acquaintance.

Mainz 05 took 19 points from their last ten encounters with teams from the bottom half of the Bundesliga table. This amounts to six wins after scoring 21 times and conceding 12. Augsburg won zero and claimed one points in their six most recent games against teams inside the top six. They scored four conceded 15 goals. Mainz 05 claimed nine wins, four draws as well as seven defeats in the Bundesliga this season. Augsburg have a record of seven wins, five draws and eight defeats in the Bundesliga.

Mainz 05 vs Augsburg Squads

Mainz 05 Squad

Henriksen will select the starting XI for the upcoming match against Augsburg from the following players (the statistics in the brackets represent goals scored and matches played in the Bundesliga this season):

Daniel Batz (0/0), Lasse Riess (0/0), Robin Zentner (0/20), Andreas Hanche-Olsen (0/10), Anthony Caci (1/20), Danny da Costa (0/11), Lennard Maloney (0/11), Maxim Leitsch (1/13), Moritz Jenz (0/9), Philipp Mwene (0/20), Silvan Widmer (0/17), Stefan Bell (0/15), David Mamutovic (0/0), Dominik Kohr (0/19), Hyun-Seok Hong (0/16), Jae-Sung Lee (5/19), Kaishu Sano (0/20), Nadiem Amiri (4/17), Nikolas Veratschnig (0/6), Armindo Sieb (2/19), Arnaud Nordin (0/1), Ben Bobzien (0/0), Gabriel Vidovic (0/1), Jonathan Burkardt (12/16), Nelson Weiper (1/10), Paul Nebel (5/18).

Augsburg Squad

Here is the full team squad of Augsburg. The 54 year-old Jess Thorup will select his starting lineup from the following players:

Daniel Klein (0/0), Finn Dahmen (0/5), Nediljko Labrovic (0/15), Cedric Zesiger (0/9), Chrislain Matsima (1/16), Dimitrios Giannoulis (0/18), Henri Koudossou (0/14), Jeffrey Gouweleeuw (0/19), Keven Schlotterbeck (3/14), Mads Valentin Pedersen (0/5), Marius Wolf (1/19), Noahkai Banks (0/5), Reece Oxford (0/0), Robert Gumny (0/4), Alexis Claude (6/14), Arne Maier (0/18), Daniel Hausmann (0/0), Elvis Rexhbecaj (1/18), Frank Onyeka (0/17), Kristijan Jakic (0/17), Mahmut Kucuksahin (0/0), Mert Komur (1/9), Fredrik Jensen (0/8), Mergim Berisha (0/0), Phillip Tietz (5/20), Samuel Essende (5/18), Steve Mounie (0/11), Yusuf Kabadayi (1/5).

Mainz 05 vs Augsburg Team News

Mainz 05 just have a single unavailable player for squad selection, when facing Augsburg at MEWA Arena. Anthony Caci gets a day off from the Mainz 05 squad, as he serves out a suspension.

Augsburg have just one player unavailable for selection, when visiting Mainz 05 at MEWA Arena. Dimitrios Giannoulis is ineligible for selection in the Augsburg squad, as he is suspended.

Mainz 05 vs Augsburg Lineups

Mainz 05 vs Augsburg H2H

Mainz 05 had a good reading on Augsburg in their last two meetings, which they won by 1-0 and 3-2, respectively. Not a single one of their last ten matches finished with a draw. Mainz 05 managed five wins, while Augsburg won five of these ten encounters. Selecting a home win gets you odds at 4/5 with the bookies, while the best betting odds on the visitors at full-time are at 7/2.

Mainz 05 vs Augsburg Results

Under 2.5 goals came out a winning bet only three times in ten matches between Mainz 05 and Augsburg. Over 2.5 goals is best priced at odds of 1/1 with the bookies this coming Saturday.

Mainz 05 vs Augsburg Betting Tips

Despite having scored only two times in his last 6 league matches, Jonathan Burkardt has actually netted 12 goals during this Bundesliga season. He will surely want to add some more until the end of the campaign, and the upcoming match against outsiders Augsburg should be a good opportunity for him to improve on his recent goalscoring ratio. In short, siding with Jonathan Burkardt to add another goal this season should be a bet to consider.

Mainz 05 claimed all three points seven times in their last 10 home matches across all tournaments, while also drawing one along the way. They endured defeat in two of the games in this run. Augsburg won two of their last 10 games away, while drawing four and losing four in this series of matches. Both teams scored in five of the last 10 home league matches for Mainz 05. Both teams also found the back of the net five times in the previous 10 league games away for Augsburg.

Both teams scored seven times in the last ten encounters between Mainz 05 and Augsburg, while over 2.5 goals came out seven times. Mainz 05 scored 1.6 goals on average, while Augsburg pulled 1.4 goals on average. Mainz 05 saw over 2.5 goals in five of their last ten matches across all tournaments, as they scored an average of 1.8 goals during this run. Over 2.5 goals came up in four of Augsburg's previous ten matches across all tournaments. They managed to score an average of 1.1 goals in these matches.