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As it turned out, Mainz really couldn’t hold their lead.
After leading 2-0 in the first half, Bayer Leverkusen launched a frantic coback starting in the second.
Starting from the 50th minute, Mainz paid the price with five yellow cards.
The two center-backs, the deep-lying Pekovic and Gunkel, and even Wang Shuo, all received yellow cards for fouls while tracking back to defend.
This was the first yellow card of Wang Shuo’s professional career.
But what was the result?
In the 67th minute, during the defense of a corner kick, Friedrich outjumped Nowitzki and scored with a header.
The forr Mainz captain, now a center-back for the Pharmacy, was intimately familiar with Mainz’s set-piece defense. He used his heading advantage to pull one back for Bayer Leverkusen.
After that, Bayer Leverkusen’s attacks grew even fiercer.
Klopp had no choice but to make a series of substitutions.
All the way until the 84th minute, Mainz still held a 2-1 lead.
But at the crucial mont, Vidal tackled Pekovic, won the ball, and passed it to Augusto on the right wing.
Augusto dribbled past Lővér and sent in a cross. Kiesling headed it on, and Hels poked it in from in front of the goal, once again breaching Mainz’s defenses.
2-2!
Even after equalizing, Bayer Leverkusen kept attacking furiously, still hungry for another goal.
The area in front of Mainz’s goal was in a state of utter panic.
But in the end, Klopp’s team managed to hold on for a 2-2 draw.
This was also Mainz’s first draw of the season.
The two sides shook hands and settled for a draw at the BayArena!
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The 2-2 draw between Bayer Leverkusen and Mainz was the first match of the 9th round of the Bundesliga.
Wang Shuo scored one and assisted one, while Hels scored again, sounding the horn for the battle for the top scorer title.
In the second match, Bayern, after falling two goals behind at ho, scored four unanswered goals to complete a 4-2 coback victory over VfL Wolfsburg.
Griffith and Dzeko each scored a goal.
For Bayern, the best perforr was Ribery, who had just returned from injury.
The team Wang Shuo was most concerned about was undoubtedly Hoffenheim.
Hoffenheim cleanly dispatched Hamburg 3-0 at ho in their match.
No one expected the contest between the 2nd and 3rd place teams on the league table to turn into such a one-sided, decisive victory.
Obasi scored a brace, and Ibisevic also netted a goal, assisted by Demba Ba.
After this round of matches, Ibisevic continued to lead the top scorers’ chart.
Wang Shuo and Hels were ranked 2nd and 3rd, respectively.
On the league table, Mainz, after a long winning streak, finally showed signs of fatigue with a draw.
With a record of 7 wins, 1 draw, and 1 loss in 9 matches, they had 22 points and remained at the top.
Hoffenheim, with 19 points, overtook Hamburg to claim 2nd place.
Hamburg was in 3rd with 17 points.
Who would have thought that two newly promoted teams would be occupying the top two spots in the Bundesliga?
The top three on the scorers’ chart were all players transferred from the 2nd Bundesliga.
This left all of Germany utterly astonished.
Last season’s 2nd Bundesliga was truly full of hidden talents!
Bayer Leverkusen’s head coach, Labbadia, said at the post-match press conference, "The Bundesliga is undergoing a major transformation, the likes of which we haven’t seen in a decade!"
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Mainz’s form was indeed not as good as it was at the start of the season.
This was especially true in their mid-week ho ga against Dortmund in the 10th round of the Bundesliga.
Facing Christopher Dom’s Bumblebees, Mainz’s performance in the first half was less than ideal.
Despite having two matches in one week, and though Klopp rotated the squad, Wang Shuo still started.
He orchestrated one key offensive play during the first half.
He assisted Amri, who had been rotated into the starting lineup, in scoring a goal for the team.
But in the 65th minute of the second half, Dortmund midfielder Klinger equalized for the Bumblebees.
Just one minute after conceding, Klopp brought on Bancé and Hainauer to strengthen the team’s attack.
Unfortunately, it had little effect.
Wang Shuo was substituted off in the 76th minute, replaced by Bobagavats.
In the end, the two sides settled for a 1-1 draw.
The results for the other matches in the 10th round of the Bundesliga also ca in.
Bayer Leverkusen defeated Werder Bren 2-0 in an away match.
Vidal and Friedrich each scored a goal.
Notably, the forr Mainz captain had now scored in two consecutive rounds.
For Wang Shuo, the good news was that Hels didn’t score.
But the bad news was that Hoffenheim ca from behind to beat Bochum 3-1 away from ho.
Ibisevic scored the go-ahead penalty kick.
’Wang Shuo was rather speechless. As a Virgo born on September 13th, he actually didn’t like taking penalty kicks. It was a kind of ntal obsession with purity. But Ibisevic didn’t care. That’s his second penalty already. Dude, is it really necessary? Before, Hels was trailing and used penalties to catch up. But you’re already in the lead!’
In this round, Bayern ca from behind to beat Frankfurt 2-1 away, thanks to goals from Klose and Ribery.
After this round of matches, Mainz had a record of 7 wins, 2 draws, and 1 loss, giving them 23 points.
Hoffenheim, on the other hand, had 7 wins, 1 draw, and 2 losses, for a total of 22 points.
Bayern only had 18 points, ranking 5th.
Additionally, there was so not-so-good news for Bayern.
Klinsmann’s locker room was starting to have problems.
First, there was Podolski.
The German international, who had been benched for a long ti, was starting to cause trouble, stating his intention to leave Bayern during the winter break.
The father of the German midfield prodigy, Tony Kroos, also criticized Bayern’s managent and Klinsmann in the dia.
The reason was that Tony Kroos wasn’t getting any playing ti, wasn’t valued by Bayern, and the club hadn’t fulfilled its previous promises to him.
With Klinsmann’s poor record as coach, various conflicts began to surface.
This matter had absolutely nothing to do with Wang Shuo; he was purely an onlooker enjoying the drama.
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