Schalke 0-0 Mainz

Dimitrios Grammozis handed 18-year-old Kerim Calhanoglu his Bundesliga debut at left-back, but the new Schalke head coach's preparations were rocked by an injury in the warm-up to influential playmaker Amine Harit. A devilish corner from his replacement, Can Bozdogan, provided a rare spot of Schalke excitement in the first half, but Shkodran Mustafi's point-blank header was beaten away by Robin Zentner. Mainz found more joy in the final third as Leandro Barreiro toe-poked a low Danny Da Costa cross narrowly wide and Adam Szalai shot wide on the turn. The ex-Schalke striker was presented with a glorious opening to break the deadlock on the stroke of half-time, but failed to make contact with Moussa Niakhate's ball into the box.

Mainz emerged from the restart with more urgency about their game, albeit failing to test the returning Frederik Rönnow in the Schalke goal. Jonathan Burkardt and Philipp Mwene might have, had their goal-bound efforts not found a Schalke defender first. The Royal Blues offered precious little in response, with the contest being played almost entirely on Mainz's terms for the final half-hour. Burkardt whipped an effort wide following a teasing run, before Suat Serdar made Zentner work from 18 yards, very much against the run of play. Mainz looked the more likely as Burkardt brought a superb save from Rönnow, but the winning goal that would have lifted them out of the bottom three was not forthcoming.

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