Bayern Munich beat Mainz 05 3-1 on Saturday at the Mewa Arena, rallying after conceding the opener and closing out another victory before a busy week ahead.
Jonas Urbig made several early saves for Bayern as Mainz took a 1-0 lead from a corner kick after Bayern failed to clear their lines, but Nicolas Jackson, Michael Olise and Harry Kane all scored to turn the game around and secure the 3-1 result. Konrad Laimer was booked during the match.
The scoreline extended a run that has become the headline for Bayern this season: the club has won 17 of their last 19 games and, with Saturday’s result included, has won eight matches in a row. Their league campaign had already been decided before the trip to Mainz — Bayern’s 4-2 victory over VfB Stuttgart on April 19 took their league points total to 79 — but the team has continued to pile up results across competitions.
Mainz, sitting in 10th place on 34 points after 30 matchweeks, began the game with momentum of their own. They had been winless in their previous three games and needed five more points to confirm their top-flight safety for next season, but they had also lost only once in their previous eight Bundesliga home games at the Mewa Arena. Their early corner that led to the opener underlined how dangerous Mainz can be at home even against a side already crowned champions.
Bayern’s fixture list is shaping the way this victory will be read. The club reached the DFB-Pokal final on Wednesday after beating Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 in the semifinal and will face VfB Stuttgart in the final on May 23. They are also due to meet Paris Saint-Germain in a Champions League semifinal next week. That congestion of big matches gives the Mainz result more weight than a routine league win: it keeps Bayern sharp and reinforces a winning rhythm across three fronts.
The match also exposed a thread of tension that could matter in the games to come. Despite Urbig’s early saves and Mainz’s strong home form, Bayern needed contributions from three different scorers to close out the win, and Laimer’s booking added a disciplinary note to an otherwise efficient evening. For Mainz, the match showed why they remain alive in the battle to secure safety — they can trouble top teams at the Mewa Arena — even as injuries complicate their situation: Benedict Hollerbach has been ruled out of Mainz’s remaining games and Lee Jae-sung was dealing with a toe injury.
The practical question after Saturday is straightforward: can Bayern carry an eight-match winning streak and the confidence of a DFB-Pokal final into next week’s Champions League semifinal against Paris Saint-Germain? If the pattern of the last 19 games holds, Bayern arrive with momentum; if the darker moments at the Mewa Arena are repeated, they will have to fix them quickly before the season’s most consequential fixtures.
