Mainz, Dec 6: Mainz remain rooted to the bottom of the Bundesliga after a Danny da Costa own goal gave visitor Borussia Mönchengladbach a 1-0 victory.
Mainz had never lost any of its previous five Friday night Bundesliga games and Gladbach had not won any of its seven but those runs were halted by Da Costa’s unfortunate second half goal.Haris Tabakovic’s 58th-minute header was sailing wide until it struck the Mainz defender and wrongfooted his own keeper.
Nelson Weiper had chances to score for Mainz but wasted them and Nicolas Moritz was smart between the posts for the visitor as Mainz’s winless league run extended to nine games.It remained in last place in the 20-team table with six points, one behind St. Pauli.Gladbach climbed to ninth. As the cold night settled over the MEWA Arena, Mainz were left staring at a familiar and unforgiving reality — another match slipping away, another week spent at the foot of the table, and another chapter added to a winless run that now stretches to nine Bundesliga games. The manner of the defeat made it all the more difficult to swallow: a drifting header that was going harmlessly wide until fate intervened, brushing off Danny da Costa and nestling into the wrong net. It summed up the kind of season Mainz are enduring, where even moments of defensive effort turn cruelly against them. They created chances through Nelson Weiper, pushed late in search of a spark, and fought with the urgency of a team desperate to break free, but the finishing deserted them once again. (AP)
