Heavy defeats to Leipzig and then newly promoted Stuttgart cost Achim Beierlorzer his job at Mainz last week but even with their old manager dismissed, things are unlikely to improve for the struggling visitors away to Union Berlin.
Union defied all expectations last term to finish 11th in their maiden Bundesliga campaign and that was thanks largely to their performances at home, where eight of their 12 league successes came.
They beat Paderborn and Dusseldorf at the Stadion An der Alten Försterei at the end of last season after having drawn 1-1 with Mainz there but on that occasion Union played more than half the game with only ten men.
Mainz are in disarray at the moment but are unlikely to be completely dismantled by Union, who lost star striker Sebastian Andersson in the summer. Three of the capital club’s last four Bundesliga victories were settled by a solitary goal and with that in mind, I expect a tight affair and predict Union Berlin win.
Heavy defeats to Leipzig and then newly promoted Stuttgart cost Achim Beierlorzer his job at Mainz last week but even with their old manager dismissed, things are unlikely to improve for the struggling visitors away to Union Berlin.
Union defied all expectations last term to finish 11th in their maiden Bundesliga campaign and that was thanks largely to their performances at home, where eight of their 12 league successes came.
They beat Paderborn and Dusseldorf at the Stadion An der Alten Försterei at the end of last season after having drawn 1-1 with Mainz there but on that occasion Union played more than half the game with only ten men.
Mainz are in disarray at the moment but are unlikely to be completely dismantled by Union, who lost star striker Sebastian Andersson in the summer. Three of the capital club’s last four Bundesliga victories were settled by a solitary goal and with that in mind, I expect a tight affair and predict Union Berlin win.