FSV Mainz 05 2-1 Nürnberg: result and report

Bundesliga · Friday 9 November 2012

Result

FSV Mainz 05 2-1 Nürnberg

Bundesliga · Friday 9 November 2012, 19:30 UTC · half-time 2-1

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FSV Mainz 05 2-1 Nürnberg: match report

FSV Mainz 05 beat Nürnberg 2-1 in the Bundesliga on Friday 9 November 2012. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Nicolai Müller opened the scoring in the 12th minute. FSV Mainz 05's goals came from Nicolai Müller (12') and Andreas Ivanschitz (21'). Nürnberg scored through Per Nilsson (40').

Discipline: FSV Mainz 05 received 5 yellow cards; Nürnberg received 5 yellow cards.

Going into the game FSV Mainz 05 were 8th on 14 points from 10 and Nürnberg 14th on 11 points from 10. FSV Mainz 05 went on to finish that season 12th with 42 points, and Nürnberg 10th with 46.

FSV Mainz 05 lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Nürnberg in a 4-1-4-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 FSV Mainz 05 wins, 3 draws and 2 for Nürnberg.

Going into the match FSV Mainz 05's last five read L-W-D-W-W and Nürnberg's W-L-D-L-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 12'Goal · Nicolai MüllerFSV Mainz 05 · 1-0
  • 17'Yellow card · Per NilssonNürnberg
  • 21'Goal · Andreas IvanschitzFSV Mainz 05 · 2-0
  • 32'Yellow card · Marvin PlattenhardtNürnberg
  • 35'Yellow card · Junior DiazFSV Mainz 05
  • 40'Goal · Per NilssonNürnberg · 2-1
  • 58'Yellow card · Elkin SotoFSV Mainz 05
  • 65'Yellow card · Park Joo-HoFSV Mainz 05
  • 79'Yellow card · Hiroshi KiyotakeNürnberg
  • 79'Yellow card · Ádám SzalaiFSV Mainz 05
  • 85'Yellow card · Hanno BalitschNürnberg
  • 88'Yellow card · Julian BaumgartlingerFSV Mainz 05
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Timmy SimonsNürnberg

Head-to-head

10 meetings: FSV Mainz 05 5, draws 3, Nürnberg 2.

Team news

FSV Mainz 05 line-up (4-2-3-1)

Christian Wetklo, Zdeněk Pospěch, Nikolce Noveski, Junior Diaz, Julian Baumgartlinger, Elkin Soto, Andreas Ivanschitz, Nicolai Müller, Bo Svensson, Nikita Rukavytsya, Ádám Szalai

Nürnberg expected line-up (4-1-4-1)

Raphael Schäfer, Andreas Wolf, Dennis Diekmeier, Andreas Ottl, Mike Frantz, İlkay Gündoğan, Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting, Albert Bunjaku, Javier Pinola