Unbeaten in six matches and on the back of a convincing home win last time out, VfL will be heading off to face 1. FSV Mainz 05 on Saturday 5 November (kick-off: 15.30 CET) with the wind in their sails. Mainz are on equally good form on home turf however, having thrashed 1. FC Köln 5-0 two weeks ago.
The two sides have met 42 times in the past, with the Wolves well clear on 17 wins compared with 10 for FSV.
More facts and figures
- The recent good run of results has seen VfL climb from 17th in the Bundesliga up to 12th – their highest position since the opening day of the season.
- Current Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp is Mainz’s overall top scorer against VfL with four goals. The leaders for the Green-and-Whites, also on four, are Edin Dzeko and Bulgaria’s Martin Petrov. The latter scored all of his goals in one match, the historic 4-3 win at home in the 2004/05 season.
- Coach Bo Svensson will not have happy memories of Mainz’s most recent trip to Wolfsburg, with his team slipping to a 5-0 loss in April of this year – the heaviest defeat of his time at the helm.
- Mainz’s Anton Stach, who recently made his full international debut for Germany, is a former VfL player, the midfielder making 40 fourth-tier appearances for the U23s between September 2018 and February 2020.
