Mainz 05 vs Eintracht Frankfurt — Bundesliga result and pre-match forecast, Saturday, 12 September 2026

Bundesliga·Saturday, 12 September 2026

Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 5.1 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Mainz 05

54%

top pick

Draw

23%

Eintracht Frankfurt

23%

result

Final score

1–3

Top pick missed

Metis gave an Eintracht Frankfurt win 22.8% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Mainz 05 win. Expected goals 1.84–1.23 against 1–3 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals60%4 scored
Both teams score61%yes
Mainz 05 clean sheet29%no
Eintracht Frankfurt clean sheet15%no
Mainz 05 score 2+56%no
Eintracht Frankfurt score 2+34%yes

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.4440
1X2 Brier score0.9419
Probability on the result22.8%

Both scores are losses: lower is better, 0 is a forecast that put all of its probability on what happened. A single fixture says nothing on its own — the league's running record is on its league page, and the model is measured against the Pinnacle opening price in the methodology.

Most likely scores before kick-off: 2–1 (11.5%), 1–1 (10.7%), 1–0 (8.8%). It finished 1–3.

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Mainz 05

29 AugHvs Paderborn0–0D
6 SeptAvs Hamburg5–0W
12 SeptHvs Eintracht Frankfurt1–3L
19 SeptAvs Borussia M.Gladbach4–3W
10 OctHvs Bayer Leverkusen3–4L

Eintracht Frankfurt

29 AugAvs Union Berlin3–3D
6 SeptHvs Augsburg1–4L
12 SeptAvs Mainz 053–1W
19 SeptHvs Freiburg2–2D
10 OctAvs RasenBallsport Leipzig0–6L

Head to head

No previous meetings in the Metis results archive for this competition.

Model context

StatMainz 05
(Home · 4 matches)
Eintracht Frankfurt
(Away · 4 matches)
BTTS rate75.0%50.0%
Over 2.5 rate75.0%75.0%
Clean sheet25.0%0.0%
Avg goals4.004.25

Home stats use Mainz 05's home record; away stats use Eintracht Frankfurt's away record this season. These are completed-match rates over the samples shown above, not model probabilities — early in a season a handful of matches produces 0% and 100% readings.