1. FSV Mainz 05 has only won one of its 12 Bundesliga away games against 1. FC Köln (3-2 in April 2021, including D6 L5). Among the current BL teams, Mainz only has a lower win rate away from home at Union Berlin (0%) than at FC (8%). However, of the last nine BL duels between the two teams in Müngersdorf, six ended in a draw (2 FC wins, 1 Mainz win).
1. FC Köln have only lost two of their last six Bundesliga games, picking up eight points (W2 D2) – seven points more than in the first seven games of this season (D1 L6). For the first time since the 4th matchday of 2023/24, Cologne will go into a BL matchday ranked above the relegation places.
With only eight points from the first 13 games, FSV Mainz 05 is playing its second weakest Bundesliga season ever (1W 5D 7L) – only in the 2020/21 season did the Mainz team have fewer points at the time of comparison (6), although they still finished at the end of the season in 12th place. Mainz are the only team that has only managed one win this BL season.
Since a 3-0 win at RB Leipzig at the beginning of April 2023, FSV Mainz has not won any of the last 11 Bundesliga away games (D6 L5) – no other current Bundesliga team is currently waiting so long for an away win. Only in 2017/18 (the first 11) and 2006/07 (the first 8) had the FSV remained winless in the first seven BL guest games of a season.
1. FC Cologne has already lost eight Bundesliga home games in the 2023 calendar year – only Bremen has lost more (9). With another defeat, FC equaled its negative club record from the calendar years 2009 and 2001, when Cologne lost nine BL home games each.
1. FC Köln has the weakest offensive of this Bundesliga season with 10 goals. No other team undercut its expected goals value as much as Cologne (-5.9 goals, 10 goals at 15.9 xG). With 12 goals, Mainz has the second-weakest offensive of this BL season (like Union Berlin). No team recorded a lower expected goals value this BL season than Mainz (14.1 xG, like Darmstadt).
1. FC Köln and FSV Mainz 05 are the two teams that have been in the lead for the shortest time so far this Bundesliga season: FC led for a total of 165 minutes, Mainz for just 110 minutes.
FSV Mainz 05 conceded nine headed goals this Bundesliga season – no other team has conceded more than five headed goals so far. 1. FC Köln, on the other hand, only scored one header this season – a league low.
Davie Selke scored 1. FC Köln’s last two Bundesliga goals and is Cologne’s top scorer this BL season with four goals. In the calendar year 2023, he scored nine Bundesliga goals (all for Cologne, an extended personal record) – one more than in the previous three years combined.
Cologne goalkeeper Marvin Schwäbe prevented 4.8 goals from being conceded this Bundesliga season according to the expected goals on target model (24 goals conceded excluding ET at 28.8 xGoT) – league best. Against Darmstadt he kept his first clean sheet of this BL season. Mainz 05’s keeper Robin Zentner, on the other hand, conceded 0.6 goals more than his xGoT value and has the weakest defense rate of all BL regular goalkeepers (57%).