Eintracht Frankfurt vs Mainz

21 December 2024 · Bundesliga · 2024/25 · Referee Florian Badstübner

Full time 1 – 3

Half-time: 0–2

Rasmus Kristensen 75’

Kauã Santos 15’ (og)
Paul Nebel 27’, 58’

Match summary

Mainz beat Eintracht Frankfurt 3-1 on the road. Mainz led 2-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Santos's own goal put Mainz ahead in the 15th minute and Paul Nebel made it 0-2 in the 27th minute. In the second half, Nebel made it 0-3 in the 58th minute and Rasmus Kristensen pulled one back to make it 1-3 with a header in the 75th minute, set up by Nathaniel Brown.

Eintracht Frankfurt can feel hard done by, creating 2.72 expected goals (xG) from 34 shots to Mainz's 0.77 from 9. Mainz had a player sent off.

Match stats

34 Shots 9

9 Shots on Target 3

17 Corners 2

1 Yellow Cards 1

0 Red Cards 1

2.59 xG 0.75

2.59 Non-penalty xG 0.75

11 Deep Completions 2

Key events

Eintracht Frankfurt Mainz

Kick-off

15’

Kauã Santos
Own goal

0-1

27’

Paul Nebel

0-2

Half-time0-2

58’

Paul Nebel

0-3

Rasmus Kristensen
Assist: Nathaniel Brown

1-3

75’

Full-time1-3

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Eintracht Frankfurt

Jean Négoce

Mainz

Nadiem Amiri
Philipp Mwene

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Eintracht Frankfurt 2.72 xGMainz 0.77 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Mainz attacking Eintracht Frankfurt attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Kauã Santos	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Arthur Theate	DEF	90			4	0.05	0.02	1
Rasmus Kristensen	DEF	90	1		4	0.57	0.01	1
Robin Koch	DEF	90			3	0.17	0.12	4
Nnamdi Collins	MID	50			0	0.00	0.00	0
Farès Chaïbi	MID	65			1	0.02	0.05	1
Nathaniel Brown	MID	90		1	1	0.05	0.88	6
Oscar Højlund	MID	65			1	0.32	0.09	2
Ellyes Skhiri	MID	50			1	0.03	0.00	0
Omar Marmoush	FWD	90			5	0.57	0.00	0
Hugo Ekitike	FWD	65			2	0.06	0.00	0
Hugo Larsson	Sub	40			1	0.14	0.04	1
Can Uzun	Sub	40			4	0.45	0.15	3
Igor Matanovic	Sub	25			3	0.15	0.00	0
Jean Négoce	Sub	25			1	0.03	0.14	2
Ansgar Knauff	Sub	25			3	0.11	0.04	1

Player	Pos	Min	G	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Robin Zentner	GK	90		0	0.00	0.00	0
Dominik Kohr	DEF	90		1	0.01	0.00	0
Stefan Bell	DEF	90		1	0.02	0.00	0
Danny da Costa	DEF	90		0	0.00	0.00	0
Anthony Caci	MID	80		0	0.00	0.03	1
Philipp Mwene	MID	90		0	0.00	0.00	0
Kaishu Sano	MID	90		2	0.07	0.00	0
Nadiem Amiri	MID	20		0	0.00	0.00	0
Paul Nebel	MID	90	2	3	0.41	0.02	1
Jae-Sung Lee	MID	80		1	0.12	0.24	1
Armindo Sieb	FWD	62		0	0.00	0.00	0
Nikolas Veratschnig	Sub	28		1	0.14	0.12	1
Silvan Widmer	Sub	10		0	0.00	0.00	0
Hong Hyun-Seok	Sub	10		0	0.00	0.14	1
Karim Onisiwo	Sub	1		0	0.00	0.00	0
Moritz Jenz	Sub	1		0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Eintracht Frankfurt win 46% Avg odds 2.07

Draw 27% Avg odds 3.62

Mainz win 27% Avg odds 3.49

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Eintracht Frankfurt W W W D L

Mainz W W W L W

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Eintracht Frankfurt 1-0 Mainz, 26 Jan 24 Next meeting: Mainz 1-1 Eintracht Frankfurt, 04 May 25 All Eintracht Frankfurt vs Mainz meetings

Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.