Match Report
Mainz 05 II (14th, 6 pts) visited Kickers Offenbach (1st, 16 pts) with 10 points between them. Recent form flatters Mainz 05 II's table spot — 10th league-wide over the last five rounds while sitting 14th. Against a league average of 1.55 goals per team per game, Kickers Offenbach ran at 2.5 scored and 0.83 conceded, Mainz 05 II at 1.33 and 2.
The five-game form split read 6/15 points for Kickers Offenbach against 12/15 for Mainz 05 II.
13 meetings are on record — 7 won by Kickers Offenbach, 6 by Mainz 05 II, 0 drawn, at 3.38 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 85% of the meetings. Goals tend to flow: 69% of the meetings produced three or more, and both sides scored in 62%.
The match was played at Sparda-Bank-Hessen-Stadion (capacity 20,500). M. Heiker officiated: 35 games logged, averaging 1.5 yellow cards each. Half-time and full-time told different stories: Kickers Offenbach led 2-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 3-1.
Goal scorers
Kickers Offenbach: Benedikt von Hagen (3'), Maximilian Schmid (16'), Kristjan Arh Cesen (80') · Mainz 05 II: Emanuel Marincau (85')