Mainz has only one point and are therefore at last place in the table. The defence has had a poor performance so far and also has major personnel worries. Even in the last match against Augsburg, midfielder Dominik Kohr had to help out in the central defence. Now they have another bad news. Defender Andreas Hanche-Olsen will have surgery on his foot and will not be able to play for at least 4 months.
They're really unlucky this season, usually Mainz is ranked in the middle of the Bundesliga standings. Not only Mainz, in the standings there are 2 more teams that have 1 point, they're Koln and Darmstadt. In the next 3 weeks will probably be a terrible week for Mainz, because they will face strong teams such as Leverkusen, Monchengladbach (currently they're not having a good performance) and Bayern Munich.
no problem and this is just the initial stage since this season started of course there will always be teams that experience a decline in performance and that is a normal thing that happens in every season and I can also understand that a team like Mainz is currently having a little difficulty competing with other teams even only being able to occupy the bottom standings but that does not guarantee that they will continue to be at the bottom of the standings because we will see the transfer market open in the middle of the season and with this opening a team has the opportunity to get new players to immediately improve the team performance and I am sure Mainz will still end up in the middle of the standings at the end of the season.