Mainz corrected Dortmund (3-0) on Saturday, profoundly overhauled compared to the victorious Champions League semi-return in Paris, and left the red zone, while Cologne retained a small hope of clinging to the dam. Before the last day of the Bundesliga next week, Mainz took 15th place, with 32 points on the clock, improving its goal difference (-14).
Bo Henriksen’s men, who arrived on the Mainz bench in mid-February, gave up 16th play-off place to Union Berlin (30 points, -26 goal difference), beaten on the Cologne lawn on Saturday (3-2 ). With this result, Cologne (27 points, -29) retains a small hope of snatching the 16th play-off place, its only means now for it to avoid relegation.
On the final day of the German championship, Mainz will travel to Wolsfburg and a draw should be enough to stay in the first division, while the Berliners will host Freiburg, and Cologne will go to Heidenheim. Bochum (33 pts) needs a point from its last two matches (against Leverkusen and Bremen next Saturday) to ensure its maintenance.
Four days after eliminating Paris SG in the semi-finals of the Champions League (1-0 home and away victories), Edin Terzic rotated his squad, with only Nico Schlotterbeck starting in Paris in C1 on Tuesday and in Mainz in the championship on Saturday. Dortmund’s defense took on water in the space of eleven minutes, conceding three goals from Leandro Barreiro (12th), a double from Lee Jae-sung (19th and 23rd).
Dortmund will finish the season in 5th place, and Eintracht Frankfurt, almost guaranteed to finish 6th (six points ahead and a better goal difference compared to Hoffenheim, who travel to Darmstadt on Sunday then host Bayern next week ), will be the first supporter of BVB in the final of the Champions League on June 1 at Wembley against Real Madrid, because in the event of a European triumph for Borussia, the 6th in the Bundesliga will qualify for the next C1.
