A little farther forward, another man paced the technical area — the man to whom Heidel and all of Mainz owed that fateful situation in the first place: Jürgen Klopp, Mainz coach since 2001. Klopp kept pulling players to the touchline, barking instructions, gesticulating, willing it over the line. In 1997, as a player, he too had failed to take the club up in dramatic fashion against Wolfsburg. This time had to be different.
