The next day, March 20, the Europa League top 8 draw results were announced.
Sevilla VS Zenit St. Petersburg
Dnipro vs Bruges
Dinamo Kip vs Fiorentina
Wolfsburg vs Napoli
Dieter Heijing felt very unhappy when he drew the lottery for only two of the eight teams.
Although the Naples club has a history of more than 100 years, in fact, except for Maradona's glorious era, they have not won many other honors and do not have much heritage to speak of.
But in recent years, Naples seems to have declined to the extreme and has begun to bottom out and has achieved very good results.
In the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons, they even won the second and third place in Serie A consecutively, and the trend of overpowering the giants is very obvious.
So far this season, Napoli has achieved a good record of 13 wins, 7 draws and 7 losses in 27 games. They are ranked fourth in the Serie A standings, only three or four points behind Lazio and Roma in third and second place.
If given a choice, Dieter Heijing would rather choose Sevilla, because the Serie A team's defense is really a headache.
In particular, Wolfsburg still has the old problem of not scoring when they are in a strong position, and they are likely to be bruised and bruised by Naples' defense.
But Wolfsburg's attention soon turned back to the Bundesliga.
On March 22, the last two games of the 26th round of the Bundesliga were Wolfsburg VS Mainz and Bayern VS Monchengladbach.
The match between Wolfsburg and Mainz starts two hours earlier.
In this game, Naldo returned from suspension and started as a central defender with Chu Zheng.
In other positions, since they had just fought a war of attrition with Inter Milan, Dieter Heijing directly rotated five players.
Bendtner, Schürrle, Schaeffer, Arnold, Sebastian Jung and others all started.
Because Mainz won 2-0 away from Augsburg in the last round, they jumped two places in the standings to 11th place.
But in fact, this team is far inferior to Wolfsburg both on paper and in real terms.
This game has attracted much attention from the media in China, Japan and South Korea.
Because for Mainz, Shinji Okazaki, Koo Ja-cheol, and Park Joo-ho started at the same time.
As for Zhang Xizhe still not being included in Dieter Heijing's game squad, now domestic fans and media rarely mention it, and they are used to it.
However, after the game started, the direction of the situation surprised everyone.
After the game started, Mainz took advantage of the atmosphere and advantages at home to launch a very aggressive and crazy full-court press against Wolfsburg.
Wolfsburg was not to be outdone, so the two sides fought fiercely in the midfield.
Soon, under Mainz's fierce and tacit pressure, Wolfsburg made an outrageous mistake in the backcourt that left people speechless.
In the 2nd minute of the game, Benaglio took the goal kick.
Chu Zheng took the ball outside the left rib and was pressed by Shinji Okazaki. He quickly passed forward and retreated to meet Gustavo who broke Mainz's high pressure.
As a result, after Gustavo received the ball, the Mainz players had a tacit understanding.
Ku Zizhe stuck tightly from behind to prevent Gustavo from turning around, while Okazaki Shinji retreated along the side road and rushed towards Gustavo.
Gustavo took the ball back along the wing and took the opportunity to kick the ball back to Benaglio.
However, Benaglio was confused at this critical moment. He quickly rushed out and grabbed the ball before Shinji Okazaki.
Seeing this scene, Chu Zheng immediately covered his face!
Sure enough, the next second, referee Stark directly ruled that Benaglio violated the rules and awarded Mainz an indirect free kick in the upper right corner of the penalty area.
This scene made Dieter Heijing dumbfounded on the sidelines.
He felt that Benaglio must have forgotten his thoughts in the locker room today, and he could make such a low-level and outrageous mistake.
Not long after, Mainz took an indirect free kick. Gass faced the ball that Schurrle pushed in front of him and shot it directly with his leg.
The ball flew over the right side of the wall and went straight to the left side of the goal.
Chu Zheng happened to be in Gase's shooting path. He pushed the ball directly over the baseline with his head. Then his head was buzzing and he couldn't even hear the fans' enthusiastic applause clearly.
Soon, Mainz took a corner kick on the right.
In the penalty area, Wolfsburg defended 9 against 5, occupying an absolute numerical advantage.
The landing point is on the right side of the small penalty area, in front.
Suddenly, a total of 7 people squeezed in, and it instantly turned into a melee.
In the crowd, Mainz right center back Bongert successfully took off and shook his head to attack the goal.
The ball changed direction instantly and went straight to the far post.
When Benaglio saw this scene, he felt desperate.
With this distance and strength, he knew 100% that it would go in without even thinking about it.
Then the moment he threw himself to the right, he saw a blue figure on the goal line on his right.
Seeing that Chu Zheng had taken off, Benaglio was ecstatic and once again tasted the joy of surviving the disaster.
Under Benaglio's watchful eye, Chu Zheng took off and accurately headed the flying ball toward the top of the arc for a clearance.
"fool!!!!!!!!!!"
Suddenly, more than 30,000 fans at the Europa Arena collectively let out a short sound of annoyance!
No one knows why Chu Zheng happened to appear on Bangert’s shooting path!
But this is Chu Zheng's defensive style, which is unexpected every time and can bring endless surprises to his own fans while making the opponent feel desperate and shocked.
"pretty!!!"
"This is Chu Zheng, he will always appear in the most dangerous position!" Seeing Chu Zheng save the ball again, He Wei said with a grin.
"Chu Zheng's sense of crisis is the best among the players I have ever seen. He seems to be born with the ability to foresee danger!" Zhang Lu said with a smile.
The next direction of the game once again made Wolfsburg fans break their defense.
Maybe it's because of the big rotation of Dieter alloys.
Wolfsburg players made a lot of mistakes today.
Except for Chu Zheng, including De Bruyne, everyone else is not in good condition.
So in the next ten minutes, it was difficult for Wolfsburg to reach the Mainz half.
It wasn't until the 19th minute of the game that Wolfsburg got its first shot, but Schürrle fired an anti-aircraft gun.
As time goes by, more and more problems are exposed in Wolfsburg.
For example, if the midfield is not running smoothly, lacks breakthroughs, lacks running, slow ball speed, extremely poor quality, etc., it will be impossible to counterattack.
This scene made Wolfsburg fans very worried. They were worried that the team would lose.
We are now at a critical juncture in the title race. If we lose or draw, Bayern will immediately take the lead.
When the time comes, all that will greet Wolfsburg is despair and Bayern's fading back.
But Wolfsburg fans' hearts soon fell back into their stomachs.
Because Chu Zheng's performance was as good as ever, and he seemed to be particularly excited and active today.
On the Mainz side, whether it was crosses from the wing, rib attacks combined with wing and center, or offensive methods such as set pieces and long shots, Chu Zheng, Nardo and Benaglio all worked together in a tacit understanding.
Dissolved.
Relying on Chu Zheng's superb defensive performance, Wolfsburg tenaciously defended the goal.
At halftime, Dieter Heijing, who was extremely dissatisfied with the midfielder, directly replaced Guilavoji and Sebastian Jong with Perisic and Vierinha.
In the second half, this substitution took effect quickly. After Arnold moved to the defensive midfielder position, the midfielder's control was strengthened.
But it is a pity that Wolfsburg is in a sluggish overall state.
In addition, Mainz played some tricks in sprinkling water on the court, so Wolfsburg made a lot of mistakes, including six or seven inexplicable slides.
It was not until the 73rd minute of the game that Wolfsburg ushered in the dawn of victory.
And the maker of the dawn is Chu Zheng.
De Bruyne took a corner kick from the right and found Chu Zheng directly.
Chu Zheng took off at the penalty spot, crushed the two Mainz players around him and then the Lion shook his head and directly passed the ball to the back point, allowing Gustavo, who was unmarked, to lift his foot and directly score the ball into the United States.
Intz goal.
This was also the only goal in the game.
In the end, Wolfsburg relied on Chu Zheng's excellent performance and a little luck to win Mainz in a thrilling manner.
Two hours later, Bayern's home game against Monchengladbach began.
Not only Bayern and Borussia fans are paying attention to this game, Wolfsburg and Chinese fans are also very concerned.
So tonight some Wolfsburg fans wearing green jerseys showed up in the neutral stands at the Allianz Arena in Munich.
As a result, Bayern was competing with Wolfsburg in this game. Not only was it also in a sluggish state, it was also very unlucky.
In the first half, shortly after Robben was replaced due to injury, Borussia scored the first shot.
Faced with Rafael's push shot from more than ten meters in front of the goal, Neuer made a careless save and leaked the ball into his own goal.
After conceding the ball, Bayern accelerated the pace of their attack.
But Borussia is not easy to deal with. Their defense is very good, making it difficult for Bayern to break through their compact defense.
Guardiola saw time passing by and made continuous substitutions, but the goal never came.
In the 77th minute of the game, Borussia Monchengladbach relied on the tacit attack of Hermann, Kramer and Raphael to score another goal that killed the suspense of the game.
When the full-time whistle sounded, the German Internet and media went wild.
Especially in the city of Wolfsburg, cheers rang out at the same time in countless homes, bars and various public places where you can watch the game.
"Sports Bild" and "Kicker" even reported that this may be a game that determines the Bundesliga championship this season.
The next day, when Chu Zheng got up, he found that today's news feed was all about Borussia's 2-0 victory over Bayern.
Suddenly Chu Zheng was so happy that he added an extra egg to his breakfast.
But when Chu Zheng opened his Weibo, he saw a flood of comments from fans in the comment area saying "eat, sleep and play Bayern", which made him laugh.
Now Wolfsburg leads by 3 points, and the pressure is instantly relieved a lot.
Chu Zheng also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
During this period of time, he felt like a huge burden was weighing on him in every round of the competition, because he was afraid that he would make a mistake in the competition and cause irreparable consequences.
