Mainz – Wolfsburg (Betting tips)

It will start this Friday, February 23, the twenty-fourth round of the German Championship in its 2017/2018 season. The start will be given by the clash involving Mainz and Wolfsburg. The match will be held at the Opel Arena in Mainz. The kickoff is scheduled for 16:30.

The recent performance of Mainz

The owners of the house put an end point in a sequence of four failures in the previous round. They secured their second win in 2018 by scoring 2-0 at Hertha in Berlin. Thus, Mainz reached 23 points (six wins, five draws and 12 losses). It was insufficient, however, to leave the relegation zone.
The club is in eighteenth position, the first in the sticking zone. However, they managed to equal Werder Bremen’s 15th place finish, taking the lead in the tiebreaker. So if Mainz can score on Friday he will leave the relegation zone even temporarily.
Coach Sandro Schwarz has had the opportunity throughout the week to have all the athletes of his squad in preparation for the Bundesliga match. No suspension or injury problems, you can put on the field that team you consider better to face Wolfsburg.

The current form of Wolfsburg

The same did not happen with the Swiss Martin Schmidt, commander of the alvverde. Having a reduced roster compared to the main teams competing in the German Championship had to deal with a number of injury problems and will have to wait for the position of the medical department to know if he can count on eight athletes who are still in the ward.
The biggest problems are in the defensive sector. There are doubts for Friday’s match between John Brooks (seven matches in the 2017/2018 German Championship without a goal), Sebastian Jung (two games without a goal), Marcel Tisserand (14 matches, no goal), Felix Uduokhai , a goal) and Paul Verhaegh (21 games, two goals). In addition to them, the Jakub Blaszczykowski (seven matches, one goal) and Ignacio Camacho (nine matches, no goal) are in contention treatment; and striker Admir Mehmedi (two games, no goal).
It is certain that he will not be able to count on the midfielder Maximillian Arnold (20 games, two goals). The absolute holder of the team, he is in good physical condition, but has to comply suspension by the accumulation of yellow cards.
Wolfsburg are 14th in the Bundesliga. Despite being out of the relegation zone, the threat of downfall is real. He has 24 points (four wins, 12 draws and seven losses), only one more than Mainz.
He has managed to keep up in this situation largely thanks to the visitor campaign. It is the ninth best in this category among the 18 Bundesliga teams. He managed to score in seven of the 11 matches as column two. It was two wins and five draws.

History of the games between Mainz and Wolfsburg

The four most recent matches involving the teams finished tied. Three of them by 1 to 1, including the first round of the current season of the German Championship, and a scoreless one. Wolfsburg have not won in Mainz since 2011.

Although Wolfsburg are far more dangerous when they are away from home with a chance to close themselves in the defense and exploit the counterattacks, the many doubts that should lead to some embezzlement make Mainz the best choose for a guess in the match that opens on Friday the German Championship round. It has a price of 2.37 on Bet365. Draw shows return of 3.30 for each real invested. Wolfsburg success earns 3.10. Quotes were in effect at 10:57 AM on 2/22/2018.