When Mainz 05 and FC Koln square off in the Bundesliga on Friday night, both teams will be aiming for consecutive victory. If there is a winner, the team with three points advances overnight into the Champions League qualifying spots.Hosts may need to take more initiative on their home field at the MEWA Arena on Friday, but they should be motivated by their success last weekend and their midweek 3-0 victory over VfB Lubeck in the DFB-Pokal, as well as the possibility of moving up at least seven places in the standings.Likewise, Koln, who last weekend defeated Augsburg 3-2 to go back on the winning track, may climb up the standings from seventh to third by defeating Mainz on Friday. After just 14 minutes, Florian Niederlechner's goal put Steffen Baumgart's team down, but Steffen Tigges, Denis Huseinbasic, and Daniel Caligiuri all but even the score by the time halftime rolled around. With this team, Baumgart is still learning how to balance domestic and international play after a tremendously successful debut season in which Koln finished seventh. On Thursday, Koln will play FC Slovacko in a crucial Europa Conference League match as they try to catch the top two teams in Group D. Koln, meanwhile, should head into the match fresher having been knocked out by Jahn Regensburg on penalties in the first round of the German Cup.Anyway, Bundesliga seem to be a priority for Koln this season and that is a good choice. Koln knows to defend and Mainz almost alwazs fails in such games when they are slight favourite by bookies and they have to attack the deeply positioned team. Koln will use the counter attack to score most likely, and X2 is simply a must take for me in such situation. Predicting Koln to take a lead at half time and match to end in a draw, what would be a very well paid prediction - 13.5 odds seem attractive!

当美因茨和科隆在周五晚上德甲对决，两支球队的目标都将是连胜。如果有赢家，则获得三分的球队将会升到欧战的资格区。周五，主队可能需要在 MEWA 竞技场采取更多主动性，但他们应该为上周末的成功和他们的成功所激励。周中在德国杯中3-0战胜VfB Lubeck，以及在积分榜上至少上升7位的可能性。同样，上周末以3-2击败奥格斯堡的科隆重回胜利轨道，周五击败美因茨，排名可能会从第七上升到第三。仅仅 14 分钟后，弗洛里安·尼德莱赫纳的进球让史蒂芬·鲍姆加特的球队倒下了，但史蒂芬·蒂格斯、丹尼斯·侯赛因巴西奇和丹尼尔·卡利朱里在半场结束时几乎连比分扳平。鲍姆加特还在学习如何平衡国内和国际比赛。科隆在首个赛季取得了巨大成功，获得了第七名。周四，科隆将在一场关键的欧联杯比赛中对阵斯洛瓦科，因为他们试图追上 D 组的前两支球队。与此同时，科隆在首场点球大战中被雷根斯堡淘汰出局，应该会以更新鲜的方式进入比赛。无论如何，德甲似乎是科隆本赛季的重中之重，这是一个不错的选择。科隆知道防守，而美因茨几乎在这样的比赛中失败了，他们不得不攻击定位较深的球队。科隆最有可能使用反击得分，在这种情况下，客队不败是非常好的选项。预测科隆在半场结束时领先并以平局告终，半全场负平这将是一个非常好的选择——13.5 的赔率似乎很有吸引力！