- Bayern have won 3 of the last 5 head-to-head fixtures and their last 3 to Mainz (W2, D1).
- Bayern are unbeaten in 5 games, winning 3 and drawing 2, while Mainz have won 1 of their last 5 matches, losing 4.
- Bayern have taken 17 points from 7 Bundesliga 2026-2027 games while Mainz have taken 10 from 8.
Bayern back on the march
Bayern Munich can continue their Bundesliga 2026/2027 winning run against 1. FSV Mainz 05 at MEWA Arena on Saturday when the 2 clubs meet in a classic contest of positional overloads vs compact blocks.
Vincent Kompany's side have been in great shape of late, winning their last 2 straight, an away trip to Freiburg in the Bundesliga 2026/2027 that finished 3-1 to Bayern and a 6-1 thrashing of Magdeburg in the DFB-Pokal. They have conceded just 4 times in their 4 Bundesliga 2026/2027 road trips and look ready to get the 3 points again here.
1. FSV Mainz 05 come into this game on a losing streak that has seen them win just 1 of their last 5 in all competitions, losing 3 straight. Urs Fischer's men will be looking to block up and use their counter-attacking style to hurt Bayern on the counter-attack and have some good individual weapons in Phillip Tietz, who has 4 goals in 4 Bundesliga 2026/2027 games, and Anthony Caci, who has 3 of his 10 goals in his last 5 matches.
Die Roten to dominate and secure 3 points
Mainz will look to get men behind the ball and block up while Bayern will try to swarm them and create overloads in all thirds of the field. Die Roten have the better players and press better so they should be able to pin Mainz back in the 1st half, although the 2026/2027 hosts' quality on the break should keep them in the game.
This fixture has history of goal-fests, as proven in the 4-3 away win for Bayern, so it's difficult to ignore over 2.5 goals at 1.2 and both teams to score at 1.33, but we'll take Bayern to come out on top and edge towards another away win.
Bayern are 1.4, Mainz 5.7 and the draw 5.5 for this match, which suggests that the market doesn't see any value in backing anything but the favourites.
