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Three away games in their last six, three away wins: that is 1. FSV Mainz 05's record on the road going into Saturday, and FC Schalke 04 have won neither of their two most recent home matches. Both clubs have done all of their winning somewhere other than their own ground, which makes the Bundesliga meeting at 14:30 BST on Saturday, 17 October 2026 a harder one to read than the table suggests. The full form picture and the call are below, and you can make your own on the Schalke 04 vs Mainz 05 match page.
FC Schalke 04 against 1. FSV Mainz 05 kicks off at 14:30 BST on Saturday, 17 October 2026, in the Bundesliga. It is an afternoon start for UK viewers, and predictions on CalledItMate close when the referee gets the game under way.
Partly. The three wins are real and they were emphatic: 3-0 at SV Waldhof Mannheim, 4-3 at Borussia M'gladbach, 5-0 at Hamburger SV. But look at what happens either side of them. Mainz have taken 10 points from their last six, won 3, drew 1 and lost 2, and both defeats came at home - 1-3 to Eintracht Frankfurt and 3-4 to Bayer 04 Leverkusen seven days before this one.
So the travelling form is genuine and the rest of it is volatile. Urs Fischer's side have scored 16 and conceded 10 across those six games. That is a team winning shoot-outs, not controlling them.
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