The Champions League is over, and now everyone's eyes are on the league again.

All eyes are on Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich's respective league fixtures.

There is no winner or loser in the league, anything is possible.

In the 32nd round of the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich hosted Werder Bremen, while Borussia Dortmund challenged Bayer Leverkusen away.

Dortmund's opponent in the last round of the league was Mainz, who finished seventh in the league, and Mainz had a reason to fight Dortmund in order to qualify for European competition.

And Bayer Leverkusen also has a reason to fight with Dortmund in this round of the league.

As of the 31st round of the league, Bayer Leverkusen ranked fourth with 54 points, four points away from Schalke 04, which is third in the league, not that there is no possibility of catching up with Schalke 04.

But their most urgent thing now is not to chase Schalke 04, but to prevent being overtaken by Wolfsburg.

Wolfsburg, who are fifth in the league, have 53 points, one point behind Bayer Leverkusen.

But fourth and fifth are two different worlds altogether – the fourth in the league can qualify for next season's Champions League, and after passing the qualifying round, they can play in the main stage of the Champions League. At that time, there will be at least six group games to play, and there will be a lot of appearance bonuses and winning bonuses. This is one of the most important revenues for the financially healthy Bundesliga clubs, the Champions League revenue and broadcast fee split.

The fifth in the league can only go to the Europa League, and the Europa League is a big difference from the Champions League in terms of appearance fees and match bonuses and broadcast fee sharing. Losing Champions League qualification and playing in the Europa League means a lot less money next season.

No team wants that to happen.

So Bayer Leverkusen don't care much about Schalke 04 right now, they care more about the result of the Wolfsburg game.

In order to prevent Wolfsburg from catching up with them, Bayer Leverkusen will of course have to beat Dortmund in the next league game. And it's still on their own home turf, with home advantage.

As long as they can beat Borussia Dortmund, then no matter what Wolfsburg does, Bayer Leverkusen can breathe a sigh of relief for a while.

In this round of the league, Wolfsburg is at home to Freiburg. The latter is ranked thirteenth in the league, and theoretically there is still the pressure of relegation, but in practice there is not much need to think about relegation. So it can be said that there is almost no desire.

VfL Wolfsburg have a high chance of beating Freiburg at home.

In such a situation, Bayer Leverkusen must win Dortmund at home.

Dortmund, who had just finished the Champions League, was not easy to win when they did not face such a Bayer Leverkusen away from home.

Not to mention, they spent a lot of energy in the Champions League - that tactic worked quite well against Atletico Madrid, but it also had a huge impact on fitness, and after this game, there is a question mark over whether Dortmund will be able to play Bayer Leverkusen with a full squad.

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The last time Borussia Dortmund played Bayer Leverkusen in the league was a very tight game.

There was controversy after the game.

It was Dortmund's most difficult time, with third in the league and Bayer Leverkusen above them – second in the league.

The two sides played very closely and fiercely in the game.

Sven Bender and Shaheen were injured in the game, and it was the time when Dortmund's injury situation was at its worst, and a succession of player injuries made many people think that Dortmund was cursed.

In the game, Bayer Leverkusen's South Korean star Son Heung-min also performed very well, helping Bayer Leverkusen open the scoring.

But then Zhou Yi equalized.

In the final moments of the game, Zhou Yi was tackled by Bayer Leverkusen defender Spašić in the penalty area, winning a penalty for Dortmund, but it also caused a clash between players from both sides.

Yan Min was sent off for accumulating yellow cards in this clash, and Sparšić was also sent off for a foul on Zhou Yi.

Both sides paid a heavy price.

Zhou Yi personally took the penalty he won and helped Dortmund complete the reversal.

In the end, Dortmund paid the price of two injuries and one sent off at home, and finally beat Bayer Leverkusen with a score of 2:1.

After the game, Bayer Leverkusen were very unconvinced by the loss to Dortmund, and they believed that Zhou Yi's fall in the penalty area was a fake fall, and without this fake fall, Dortmund would not have won the penalty and would not have won the game.

Dortmund's side was naturally unhappy as they injured two players for the win, and they were sent off with a red card.

There was a strong smell of gunpowder between the two sides.

Now, after half a season, the two sides meet again, and the smell of gunpowder is still unabated.

Bayer Leverkusen will be looking to retain their fourth place in the league, while Borussia Dortmund will need to retain their top spot. Neither side can afford to lose or draw.

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Before the game began, the war of words between the media on both sides had already begun. Bayer Leverkusen's media took the lead and brought out historical results to cheer up the team: "...... The two sides have met a total of 69 times in the history of the Bundesliga, and Dortmund has only a slight advantage with 26 wins, 19 draws and 24 defeats, and the advantage is very, very narrow, almost negligible. And when we face Dortmund at home, we have a historical advantage - 17 wins, 9 draws and 8 defeats, and we have the absolute upper hand......"

Bayer Leverkusen's media talk about historical results, and Dortmund is naturally not to be outdone. Borussia Dortmund's media also brought out the historical record: "...... Moving out of the long history of the results does not explain anything, because the players in the teams of the two teams more than ten years ago are not the same group now, and the outcome of the confrontation between them is of no reference value. It's a comparison of the results of the same group of players – the Hornets have never lost to Bayer Leverkusen on the road since Jurgen Klopp took charge of Borussia Dortmund in 2008...... The last time Borussia Dortmund lost away here was on 19 May 2007, when the team's manager was still Dole, and Dortmund lost 1-2. In the seven years since, Dortmund have been unbeaten in six visits to Bayer Leverkusen, with three wins and three draws......

The Dortmund media counter-attacked more forcefully, after all, they showed the results of the current batch of Dortmund players against Bayer Leverkusen, which was more convincing.

In addition, for Borussia Dortmund striker Mark Wagner, he is now hopeful of competing for the top scorer in the Bundesliga.

He has scored 17 league goals so far this season, just one goal behind Robert Lewandowski, who currently tops the league's scorers' charts.

This is not just a showdown between Mark and Lewandowski, but also a matchup between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich.

The rivalry between these two is interesting, during the Dortmund period Lewandowski played as a substitute for Mark, and Mark also played for Lewandowski, there has always been a rivalry.

Later, Lewandowski transferred to Bayern Munich, and Mark re-became the team's main striker, and also took on the responsibility of attacking the team for the team.

Lewandowski, who moved to Bayern Munich, was also in very good form, quickly squeezing Mandzukic onto the bench.

When both were on the same team before, the competition was not very explicit and fierce. Now they can all show this sense of competition with impunity.

For Marc, he has never won the Bundesliga Bundesliga Cannon honor, and Lewandowski has already achieved this goal in Dortmund - it was last season, his last season with Dortmund, under the continuous feeding of Zhou Yi, Lewandowski beat Leverkusen's Kiessling with 26 goals and became the top scorer in the Bundesliga.

In his best season, Mark scored seventeen league goals and finished third in the league's scorers' charts.

Seventeen league goals, meanwhile, are the best of Mark's career.

After scoring seventeen goals and finishing third in the scorers' charts on that occasion, Mark was scrapped the following season with a serious injury, and then his main striker position was occupied by Lewandowski, and Mark was also caught in a repeated process of injury and injury...... There was no way to regain his position as a regular striker until Robert Lewandowski left Borussia Dortmund last summer for Bayern Munich.

This season, Marc has shaken off the injury that has plagued him for a long time, and has been in solid form to regain the excellent form he was when he won the Bundesliga rookie title, and has now equalled his career-best result with 17 goals.

With three rounds left before the end of the league and he still has a chance to refresh that result.

If he can beat Robert Lewandowski in the scorers' charts as well, it would be the best of both worlds for him and Borussia Dortmund. He himself can completely get out of the shadow of Lewandowski and prove that he is no worse than Lewandowski. And Dortmund has also found a striker who can score consistently after losing Lewandowski, which can minimize the impact on the team after Lewandowski's departure.