In the Bundesliga, 1. FSV Mainz 05 have had a very weird trajectory in the last couple of seasons. Between being caught in the relegation battle, historically bad seasons and European outings, the club has longed for consistency for years. After a bad start to the season, the team fired...
Sunday Bundesliga games are reserved for teams that play in European competitions, so the league's best teams typically play on Sundays. This Sunday, VfB Stuttgart hosted 1. FSV Mainz 05 for the last game of the eighth matchday this season. VfB Stuttgart and their head coach, Sebastian Hoeneß, have been...
Many Team of the Season selections are, frankly, boring. Sometimes, you couldn't really call it a team; it's just a selection of eleven players, and their actual positions don't even matter. Sometimes, it's just an absurd selection because the idea is to pick only the players they think are the...
Borussia Dortmund are in a pretty rough phase right now. In the 2022/23 season, the club was only one game away from winning the Bundesliga title and ending FC Bayern's streak, but failed to win against FSV Mainz at home, ending the season with huge disappointment. An even harsher loss...
Mainz 05 are a mid-table club in the Bundesliga. They have not been relegated to the 2. Bundesliga since the 2009/10 season, when they'd been promoted to the first division the season before. Their record may not be that impressive, as their favourite place to finish in the Bundesliga is...
RB Leipzig manager Julian Nagelsmann is widely known as one of the brightest minds in modern football management and tactics. After moving his youth coaching career to Hoffenheim’s TSG Academy, Nagelsmann rose up the ranks before becoming manager of the senior side in February 2016. Almost exactly a year earlier,...
