FSV Mainz 05 0-2 Borussia Dortmund: result and report

Bundesliga · Tuesday 12 December 2017

Result

FSV Mainz 05 0-2 Borussia Dortmund

Bundesliga · Tuesday 12 December 2017, 19:30 UTC · half-time 0-0

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FSV Mainz 05 0-2 Borussia Dortmund: match report

FSV Mainz 05 were beaten by Borussia Dortmund 0-2 in the Bundesliga on Tuesday 12 December 2017. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Sokratis Papastathopoulos opened the scoring in the 55th minute. FSV Mainz 05 did not score. Borussia Dortmund scored through Sokratis Papastathopoulos (55') and Shinji Kagawa (89').

Neither side received a card.

Going into the game FSV Mainz 05 were 14th on 16 points from 15 and Borussia Dortmund 8th on 22 points from 15. FSV Mainz 05 went on to finish that season 14th with 36 points, and Borussia Dortmund 4th with 55.

FSV Mainz 05 lined up in a 3-1-4-2 and Borussia Dortmund in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Sokratis of Borussia Dortmund (8.2), ahead of Marcel Schmelzer (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 FSV Mainz 05 win, 1 draw and 8 for Borussia Dortmund.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 55'Goal · Sokratis PapastathopoulosBorussia Dortmund · 0-1
  • 89'Goal · Shinji KagawaBorussia Dortmund · 0-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: FSV Mainz 05 1, draws 1, Borussia Dortmund 8.

Team news

FSV Mainz 05 line-up (3-1-4-2)

Robin Zentner, Leon Balogun, Jean-Philippe Gbamin, Abdou Diallo, Fabian Frei, Giulio Donati, Suat Serdar, Danny Latza, Daniel Brosinski, Robin Quaison, Emil Berggreen

Borussia Dortmund line-up (4-3-3)

Roman Bürki, Jeremy Toljan, Sokratis, Ömer Toprak, Marcel Schmelzer, S. Kagawa, Julian Weigl, Raphaël Guerreiro, Andriy Yarmolenko, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Christian Pulisic