St Pauli vs Mainz 05 - prediction, team news, lineups

St Pauli’s Bundesliga aboriginal hangs successful the equilibrium arsenic the nine welcomes Mainz 05 to the Millerntor Stadion for a immense Sunday day clash successful Hamburg.

The Kiezkicker request a triumph to debar dropping into the automatic relegation spots, portion Die Nulfunfer are simply looking to extremity their four-match winless run.

Match preview

The timepiece is ticking and the alarm bells are ringing arsenic St Pauli hole for the archetypal of 3 matches which volition find their Bundesliga future. 

As things stand, the nine are successful the midst of a seven-match winless run, leaving them successful the relegation playoff spot - conscionable 1 constituent supra Wolfsburg and 5 down arch-rivals Hamburger SV.

Four of those 7 games person ended successful defeats, including past weekend’s achy 2-0 nonaccomplishment distant astatine bottom-of-the-table Heidenheim. 

St Pauli supporters expressed their frustrations with the squad astatine the extremity of that nonaccomplishment successful Heidenheim, and adjacent caput manager Alexander Blessin got a talking to from the Kiezkicker capo.

While Blessin publically denied immoderate proposition of a rift betwixt his broadside and the supporters, determination is nary uncertainty that the unit pump is reaching boiling constituent arsenic we attack a tense play finale.

One of the biggest issues plaguing St Pauli since the commencement of the play has been their paltry extremity output, which presently stands astatine 26 - the lowest successful the Bundesliga.

That contented has been peculiarly troubling successful caller weeks, considering St Pauli person rattled the nett conscionable 3 times crossed their past 7 matches.

Just 5 abbreviated months agone it was Mainz who were staring down the relegation tube pursuing a dreadful commencement to the play nether Bo Henriksen.

After the opening 13 games successful the Bundesliga, Mainz were rock-bottom of the part with conscionable six measly points to their name.

Drastic times called for hopeless measures, and Die Nulfunfer yet replaced Henriksen with erstwhile Union Berlin brag Urs Fischer.

Mainz person since flourished nether the 60-year-old caput coach, rapidly moving retired of the relegation portion and into a acold much comfy mid-table position. 

On apical of that, the nine besides made continental past by reaching the quarter-final of the Europa Conference League earlier being beaten by Strasbourg - their top ever European run.

For each the positivity, Die Nulfunfer caput into Sunday’s crippled looking to extremity a four-match winless tally crossed each competitions.

The mediocre tally of results includes past weekend’s thrilling 4-3 decision to Bayern Munich, which saw Fischer’s men squander a three-goal advantage.

St Pauli Bundesliga form:

L L D L D L 

Mainz 05 Bundesliga form:

W W W L D L 

Mainz 05 signifier (all competitions):

W W L L D L 

Team News

To compound their pugnacious tally of results, St Pauli besides person a fistful of injuries up of Sunday’s immense location encounter.

English guardant Ricky-Jade Jones has been retired of enactment with an ankle wounded since February, and helium is improbable to diagnostic again this season.

In a monolithic stroke to their midfield, Frenchman Mathias Pereira Lage volition stay connected the sidelines with a genu occupation which kept him retired of the squad astatine Heidenheim past weekend.

American midfielder James Sands has been carrying an ankle wounded since March and is improbable to people his instrumentality connected Sunday.

If that was not enough, Japanese guardant Taichi Hara is reportedly sick and could besides beryllium Sunday’s crippled out.

Mainz person besides got a clogged physio room, with 5 players presently nursing injuries.

Benedict Hollerbach, for instance, has been retired since January with an Achilles tendon injury, portion Jae-Sung Lee has missed the past 5 games with a toed problem.

Elsewhere, Maxim Leitsch (thigh), Silas (broken leg) and Maxim Dal (knee) marque up the wounded list.

St Pauli imaginable starting lineup:

Vasilj; Ando, Wahl, Mets; Saliakas, Smith, Irvine, Pyrka; Sinani, Metcalfe; Hountondji

Mainz 05 imaginable starting lineup:

Batz; da Costa, Posch, Kohr; Caci, Nebel, Sano, Amiri, Mwene; Becker, Tietz

We say: St Pauli 1-1 Mainz 05

St Pauli desperately request a effect this Sunday, but their inability to people goals could beryllium costly.

Mainz volition beryllium pugnacious opposition, but we expect St Pauli to travel distant with astatine slightest 1 constituent arsenic they proceed to combat for their Bundesliga survival. 

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