Mainz 05 in Bundesliga: Each series starts small

The Situation is not new: For the eighth Time in the current Bundesliga season professionals of FSV Mainz 05 offers the football of the occasion, a – by their standards – winning series the trail. A series of two victories in a row. Once you have managed to use the after a success suspected a tail wind.

Immediately after Achim Beierlorzers service this was the case, commencing in November, as the Rhine-Hesse, a 5:1 in Hoffenheim had a 2:1 against Eintracht Frankfurt follow. For the Trainer, this meant a career start made to measure, the team got a little air in a relegation battle. But any hopes of a stronger-than-previously pronounced Constance, the 05ers stifled a week later, at the club on Sunday (15.30 clock in the F. A. Z.-Liveticker for the football Bundesliga and Sky) to Mainz: the FC Augsburg.

which would mean a victory, in comparison with the competition, whether the Mainzer could gain even a preliminary decision by a cushion, on such invoices Beierlorzer don't like thinking in public. Not even under the aspect of the rest of the program, the other threatened clubs. "The other play for us?" the former mathematics teacher asked the Youtube broadcast of the press conference and the answer: "No, everyone plays for himself was. But we have it in our own Hand, to stay in the class.“ Said that and let the advertising slogan for a sporting goods manufacturer: "Just do it".

Unanswered questions

questions, which the Trainer is concerned that he will leave but for the Public until Sunday, also unanswered, the according to the staff. For example, if the last in Frankfurt yellow locked Ridle Baku returns to the Position of right defender, or whether Phillipp Mwene remains after his strong performance in the first Eleven. "Phillip was an important factor," praised Beierlorzer the Austrians, who had not only Filip Kostic almost completely out of the game, but also offensive accents. It is also conceivable, Baku back in and push the Mwene Position to the front.

to the Rhine-Main-Derby could feel Mwene as a victim of the Corona break. Just two missions he had completed, after a long injury break, as the game was suspended in operation – and as it went on, he sat three times on the grandstand and even on the bench. "Of course I was disappointed that I was not allowed to play, but I have accepted the decision of the Coach and me in the Training bit it," he said after the game in Frankfurt. He'll change nothing; Beierlorzer should have to make a difficult decision.