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.
Yes indeed, results like this are really a very bad start to the season for Mainz and moreover, when the situation is very bad like this and Mainz gets a difficult schedule with heavy opponents also in a row. Therefore, it will certainly be difficult for Mainz to be able to improve its position in the standings in the near future. But yes, at least Mainz still has a good effort too in every match so far because yes, even though Mainz lost. But at least, Mainz still has the ability to be able to minimize defeat with a goal, at least it is also good for them this moment. Because maybe, with that ability will also be able to make Mainz will still have good morale to be able to recover over time.