{"id":103638,"date":"2025-09-26T20:11:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/?p=103638"},"modified":"2025-09-26T20:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:11:49","slug":"mainz-05-vs-borussia-dortmund-team-news-and-predicted-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/mainz-05-vs-borussia-dortmund-team-news-and-predicted-line-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainz 05 vs Borussia Dortmund: Team News and Predicted Line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Niko Kova\u010d isn\u2019t expected to rotate his squad heavily for Borussia Dortmund\u2019s trip to Mainz. They do though receive a welcome injury boost with Niklas S\u00fcle and Fabio Silva both travelling to Rhineland-Palatinate for Saturday\u2019s clash following recent injury layoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defensively, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/mainz-vs-borussia-dortmund\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"103626\">Borussia Dortmund is expected to name the same back three<\/a> with Nico Schlotterbeck retaining his place after making his comeback in a 1-0 win over Wolfsburg last weekend after a five month absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marcel Sabitzer and Felix Nmecha appear to be Kova\u010d\u2019s favoured midfield partnership, but Jobe Bellingham, Pascal Gro\u00df and Julian Brandt are also candidates to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for Mainz, Bo Henriksen will be without Dominik Kohr following his second off for a second bookable offence in a 4-1 win against Augsburg last weekend. That means Stefan Bell is expected to come into the starting line-up. Defensively, Anthony Caci is also absent which should see Silvan Widmer step up in place of the Frenchman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Mainz 05 vs Borussia Dortmund Predicted Line-Ups<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mainz 05: <\/strong>Zentner &#8211; da Costa, Bell, Hanche-Olsen &#8211; Widmer, Sano, Amiri, Mwene &#8211; Nebel, Nordin &#8211; Sieb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Borussia Dortmund:<\/strong> Kobel &#8211; Anton, Schlotterbeck, Bensebaini &#8211; Couto, Sabitzer, Nmecha, Svensson &#8211; Adeyemi, Beier &#8211; Guirassy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GGFN | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.x.com\/danieljpinder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Pinder<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niko Kova\u010d isn\u2019t expected to rotate his squad heavily for Borussia Dortmund\u2019s trip to Mainz. They do though receive a welcome injury boost with Niklas S\u00fcle and Fabio Silva both&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312401,"featured_media":103639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,338,53],"tags":[476,449,480,1028],"class_list":["post-103638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bundesliga","category-borussia-dortmund","category-1-fsv-mainz-05","tag-borussia-dortmund","tag-bundesliga","tag-mainz","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103642,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103638\/revisions\/103642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}