Eintracht Frankfurt remained undefeated in the last seven Bundesliga duels against 1. FSV Mainz 05 (W3 D4) – Eintracht has not been defeated for so long against any other Bundesliga team. The last defeat was a 0-2 at home in June 2020.
1. FSV Mainz 05 recently remained winless in their seventh Bundesliga game in a row (D5 L2); FSV celebrated its last and only win of the season on matchday 10 in the first game under Jan Siewert at the beginning of November 2023 against Leipzig (2-0). Among the current BL teams, only Darmstadt 98 (11 games) are waiting longer for a win in the upper house than the zero fives.
With 11 points, 1. FSV Mainz 05 played its second-weakest Bundesliga first half of the season – only in 2020/21 were there fewer points (7). In 2006/07, the Zero Fives also scored 11 points in the first half of the season, and at the end of the season they were relegated from the Bundesliga for the only time. The second half of the season has not yet started for FSV this BL season as the duel with 1. FC Union Berlin has been postponed.
1. FSV Mainz 05 has been winless in 13 Bundesliga away games (D8 L5), which is the longest active streak among current BL teams. The last away threesome was on April 1, 2023 at RB Leipzig (3-0). The Zero Fives are the only team that has not yet won away from home this BL season. Mainz had only had such a long losing streak in the upper house once before: 17 games from 2017 to 2018.
Eintracht Frankfurt recently won two Bundesliga home games in a row for the first time under coach Dino Toppmöller, which is exactly as many as they won in the first six BL home games under Toppmöller combined (D3 L1).
Only Eintracht Frankfurt (3) and VfL Wolfsburg (4) scored fewer set-piece goals this Bundesliga season than 1. FSV Mainz 05 (5). The SGE is also the only team that has not yet scored from a corner, Mainz is the only team that has not yet scored a penalty goal.
No other team has been in the lead for as few minutes as 1. FSV Mainz 05 (110) this Bundesliga season – the same applies to away games (31). In this BL season, away from home, every other team was in the lead for more than twice as long (Bochum: 65 minutes) as the Zero Fives.
1. FSV Mainz 05 played a draw in their last six away games in the Bundesliga. There has only been a longer such series in the upper house three times – the record is held by FC Bayern Munich, who shared the points in nine consecutive away games in the 1986/87 season under coach Udo Lattek.
Frankfurt’s winter signing Sasa Kalajdzic was directly involved in a Bundesliga goal for the first time in 525 days in the recent 2-2 draw against Darmstadt. This was the first time he collected a scorer point in a competitive game for Eintracht Frankfurt. In the Bundesliga he played three times against 1. FSV Mainz 05, scoring three direct goals (2D 1A) – of all BL teams only more against Union Berlin (4).
Frankfurt’s Niels Nkounkou was directly involved in a goal in each of his last three Bundesliga games (1 goal, 2 assists) – in his first 11 BL games he was only directly involved in one goal. Only Omar Marmoush managed such a series for the SGE this BL season (4 games in a row in October/November).