Back in Germany, five days later, the twenty-second round of the league was played. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

With the UEFA Cup at home set to be played three days later, Jurgen Klopp did not field any of the main players in his squad for the second round of the league game against Stuttgart.

Even, Klopp directly took a leave, and Bel Collin, as a substitute manager, directly led the second team to Stuttgart.

All of a sudden, public opinion was in an uproar.

Eintracht Frankfurter Zeitung: "Other teams have a glorious league history, so when you give up a league game, you have to cover it with a fig leaf. However, Mainz, who has only been in the league for two seasons, did not have any such scruples, they directly sent a full substitute lineup, and even Klopp himself rested, which is to deceive the fans, after all, many fans bought tickets because of Mainz's visit. ”

Faced with such a question, Klopp responded directly: "The second team lineup against Kaiserslautern, you say it's bullying, the same lineup, just a striker and a goalkeeper, playing Stuttgart, you just say that I am deceiving the fans, is the value of the second team's lineup to play in the middle of the league?" I can't just make a new league between the second team and those teams, right? ”

Stuttgart, as a former giant, is now a strong team, of course, it is not soft, as a result, Stuttgart won the game 1-0.

Mainz are still two points behind Bayern Munich because Bayern also lost......

Munich Daily: "Bayern had an equally difficult schedule when Mainz had a difficult schedule, Bayern failed to seize the opportunity to open the gap and was bitten by Mainz, the league has reached this stage, the middle and lower teams are starting to exert their strength, and the first and second groups have not been playing smoothly lately. ”

At the moment, the first group is still Mainz and Bayern.

However, if Mainz wants to establish Champions League qualification, they must win the title, and the second and third places can only qualify for the play-offs, and the Bundesliga teams have too few points in the Champions League in recent years, and Schalke 04 was eliminated in the group stage again.

For Mainz, qualifying for the play-offs is equivalent to qualifying for the main competition, but the league title is a great honour, and everyone in Mainz is also struggling.

On 23 February, Mainz hosts Lokomotiv Moscow.

On the road, the Mainz fans were treated unfairly and only got more than a thousand away tickets, and this time, the club decided to retaliate, so Lokomotiv only got a thousand tickets, which is called hurting each other.

Before the start of the competition, Mainz live, driven by live music, hummed a very familiar melody.

Ribery looked down and asked, "Michael, what song is this, it's familiar." ”

Michael Zucker triumphant: "You don't know this, this is the famous saxophone song "Early Morning"! ”

Wang Zhen touched the sweat on his head: "There is only one song that can be called a famous song on the saxophone, that's right, this one, Kennyg's "Go Home". ”

No matter what TV or movie is, if the saxophone appears, it must be this song, not to mention that the Ministry of Railways uses this song to make train single loops all year round, how could Wang Zhen not know......

"The Mainz fans chanted the saxophone song 'Coming Home' as if to send Lokomotiv Moscow home, and although it was a riposte to what happened in the last game, it made people feel personable."

These are the words of a German TV commentator.

The commentator on the Russian side said: "Vicious Germans, curse us before the game starts, we will indeed go home, but we must return with victory." ”

At the time of this race, the weather in Germany had warmed up, and it was afternoon, and there was no snow, so it seemed warm, and the locomotive did not even have a place to play its cold-resistant specialty.

How to fight Mainz?

At the beginning of the game, the fans directly unfurled the huge red flag, allowing the Russians to see the world.

Wang Zhen also raised his hand at this time.

The crowd chanted, "King, King, King!" ”

"It seems that the Mainz fans are haunted by the post-match riots in Moscow, and the atmosphere is at its peak before the game even starts."

The game begins.

Neither side has changed much from the previous game, with Mainz replacing Paye in the league with Albertini in the midfield position, which is also the best lineup for both sides.

In the seventh minute, Albertini stepped in and handed the football to Franck Franchi.

Ribery shook off Lokomotiv in order to target his specially configured left-back Sergij Ivanov.

But the box was crowded, and Ribery didn't choose to cross, but instead slammed the ball into the other touchline.

As soon as the ball flew in the air, the Lokomotiv crowd reacted, and their entire line-up was moving towards their right flank.

To be honest, the right side is the strong side of Lokomotiv, but it also depends on who compares with it, more Mainz, and Mainz is also stronger on the left side than them, because Mainz is a team with two wings, even in the Bundesliga, Mainz's left wing is stronger than most teams' right wing.

Ben Arfa has been at the heart of the midfield during Mainz's lack of a major general, albeit somewhat to the left.

Getting the ball, Alpha quickly chose to break through.

Lokomotiv right-back Artem Shvelidov didn't hesitate to block up.

However, Ben Arfa quickly got past him and then crossed with his feet.

Straight ball!

The football flew directly to Wang Zhen, and at this time, the central defender Sergij Ignashevic was about to run up to block Alfa, and it was too late to retreat.

At this time, Wang Zhen only had Oleg Pasning by his side, and in the face of him, Wang Zhen did not stop the ball at all, and directly raised his foot and knocked back with his back to the goal.

"Heel pass!"

It was a pass, but the ball went straight to the goal, with left-back Jacob Lequegerso trying to clear the ball, but Michael Zacker, as a pseudo-centre-forward, was more agile and got into position first and shot straight at goal.

"Heel pass, South Africans want to clear, Zach! Zach takes a step faster and shoots! tooooooooorr――！ Entered! Zach scored the goal, and it was only seven minutes before Mainz made it 2-0 and Lokomotiv had finished their UEFA Cup season this season! ”

Seeing that the two arrived at the position one after another, Wang Zhen was also ready to rush up to see if he could make up for the leak, although this ball, it is a hundred times more difficult to shoot than to score, but before the goal, pretending to be forced is arrogant.

Seeing that the ball had scored, he raised his hand directly to celebrate, and Zach also hugged Wang Zhen: "I never thought I could score in the sixteenth final of the League Cup, and I never thought about it again!" ”

"We still have to fight for the Champions League! What is the round of 32, we must make it to the quarterfinals, the semi-finals, and even the finals! ”

In the 63rd minute, Jurgen Klopp replaced Michael Zucker for Hank.

As a result, just two minutes later, Hank scored with his first touch of the ball after coming on the pitch.

It's an assist from Wang Zhen again.

"In the sixty-fifth minute, Wang Zhen's header ferried, Hank! toooooor――！ Although it was Hank who scored the goal, this goal was entirely thanks to Wang Zhen! ”

"After entering the second half, Wang Zhen, who scored a lot of goals, seemed to be obsessed with the feeling of assists."

In the 1/16 finals, Mainz defeated Lokomotiv Moscow 3-0.

(To be continued.) )