Our prediction for this Bundesliga match:
Mainz
Match Time & Date:
28 April 2024
16:30
Prediction: 2-0
Koln
Mainz will be aiming to extend their winning run at home to four games when they take on Koln in the Bundesliga round 31. Die Nullfunfer have been producing fine displays in the season finale and, as a result, the bookies see them as favourites to win Sunday’s clash. Both Jae-Sung Lee and Tom Krauss are banned for the match, while all Leandro Barreiro, Jessic Ngankam, Maxim Leitsch, and Stefan Bell are out of contention with injuries.
The Billy Goats, on the other hand, failed to impress in back-to-back defeats to Bayern Munich and Darmstadt, which is yet another reason why we are going to put our money on the in-form hosts. All Davie Selke, Luca Kilian, Florian Dietz, and Justin Diehl are sidelined with injuries for the visiting team. In their last meeting at the venue Mainz rolled over Koln 5-0.
Highlighted Player (Silvan Widmer):
Silvan Widmer was born in Aarau, Switzerland on 5 March, 1993 and, as expected, he began his senior career at his home-town club Aarau. He made nine appearances for the reserve team in the 2010/2011 campaign and he played for the first team between 2011 and 2013, scoring 11 goals in 65 league appearances for the club.
The pacey right back, who is capable of playing as a right midfielder and a left back, signed a deal with Udinese in the summer of 2012, but he remained at Aarau until 2013. Silvan Widmer has 15 caps for Switzerland U21 team and he played for the U 19 side in the past as well, scoring three goals in eight appearances for the team.
He made his debut for the senior team on 31 March, 2015, in a 1-1 draw with USA in Zurich. Widmer came as a substitute to replace fellow Serie A footballer Lichtsteiner after 46 minutes. His contract with Udinese expires on 30 June, 2020.
Highlighted Team (Koln):
FC Koln is a German football club from Koln and is currently active in the Bundesliga. The club was founded on 13th of February in 1948 after a fusion between Koner BC01 and SpVgg Sulz07. Like many German football clubs FC Koln is not only a football club but has different other sports departments as well.
FC Koln currently hosts it’s home games in the Rhein Energie Stadium which holds a capacity of almost 51 000 spectators and was recently renovated in 2004.The main club colours are white and red. The most known nickname for FC Koln is Die Geißböcke which literally means the Goats. The biggest rivals of FC Koln are Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Monchengladbach and Fortuna Dusseldorf. The club from Koln holds a narrow relationship with St Pauli, Liverpool and Paris Saint Germain.
FC Koln is one of the most successful clubs in Germany winning the Bundesliga title 3 times and the DFB Pokal 3 times. Notable players that played for FC Koln are Schuster, Korput, Olsen, Weber and Muller.
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