The God of Football Starts With Passive Skills

Chapter 291 - 72: Absolute Domain! The 11th Passive Skill! Klopp Syndrome Strikes Again! This Is the Ruhr Derby

As Shahin passed the ball, Wang Shuo immediately felt immense pressure from behind.

Haji wasn’t going to let him turn.

’What should I do?’

At first, Wang Shuo stood perfectly still, waiting for the ball and judging its distance.

Once the ball reached the spot he anticipated, he suddenly took a step forward, leaning his entire body to the right.

’Trying to shake me and break through on the left? In your dreams!’

Haji instantly stepped out as well, trying to further block Wang Shuo’s path.

But to his complete surprise, Wang Shuo’s right foot didn’t touch the ball. Instead, after planting his foot, he used the outside of his left boot to guide the incoming ball to his left.

At the same time, he pushed off with his right foot, spinning his body to the left and slipping past Haji.

’Damn it! That works too?’

Haji felt an urge to break down and cry.

He had seen it coming and wanted to block the move, but his body, its center of gravity already shifted, simply wouldn’t obey.

Luckily, he still had teammates beside and behind him.

Haji felt a little more at ease.

No sooner had Wang Shuo spun past Haji than the holding midfielder, Balic, moved up to cover.

But Wang Shuo caught up to the ball and immediately performed an elastico with his right foot, feinting as if to push the ball wide before abruptly pulling it back.

How could Balic have possibly anticipated Wang Shuo’s movements would be so quick?

He was completely faked out.

After creating a sliver of space, before the recovering Haji could lunge at him, Wang Shuo immediately pushed the ball forward with his left foot and exploded with a burst of speed, breaking through with the ball at his feet.

It takes a while to describe, but the entire sequence happened in the blink of an eye.

Even the Hannover 96 fans couldn’t believe that two of their defenders, Haji and Balic, would be beaten so quickly by Wang Shuo seizing his chance.

A collective gasp went through the entire stadium.

Wang Shuo charged forward with the ball.

In his path was the covering center-back, Schulz.

But at the exact moment of his breakthrough, Kuba, on the right wing, had already gotten the signal and was making a diagonal run behind Schulz at top speed.

The rest was simple.

Wang Shuo sent a diagonal pass, playing the ball into the space behind Schulz.

Kuba sprinted to meet it, broke into the penalty area, and from the right of the penalty spot, unleashed a thunderous shot that found the back of the Hannover 96 net.

1-1!

After the goal, Kuba was the first to rush toward Wang Shuo, lifting him straight into the air in a bear hug.

"You’re absolutely incredible!"

"That pass was absolutely perfect!"

The match clock read exactly 38 minutes.

Less than five minutes after conceding, Dortmund had successfully equalized.

But Wang Shuo still wasn’t satisfied.

"There’s still time! Let’s push hard and try to turn this around before halftime!"

"Right!"

The Dortmund players roared in unison.

And just over four minutes later, Dortmund created another opportunity.

Once again, it was Wang Shuo dropping back.

This time, however, he didn’t receive the ball. Instead, he signaled for Shahin to pass it to Grosskreutz on the left flank.

Grandcross received the ball near the left touchline, knocked it forward with one touch, and accelerated to chase it down.

Hannover 96’s right-back, Steve Cherundolo, tracked back, sticking to him relentlessly.

Wang Shuo, in the left half-space, first made a surging run forward at top speed, forcing both of Hannover 96’s center-backs to retreat quickly.

But Wang Shuo kept his eyes on the duel unfolding on the left wing.

Grosskreutz wasn’t particularly fast, and against the 1.72-meter American defender, Cherundolo, he didn’t really have the upper hand.

So he was quickly caught.

But Grandcross was clever. He came to a sudden stop, then cut inside with his right foot.

At that moment, Wang Shuo decisively slowed his run, making himself available for a pass on the left side of the Arc Top District.

"Here! To me!"

Grosskreutz immediately made the square pass.

Wang Shuo, aware of everything around him, saw that the center-back Haji, who had been sprinting back to mark him, had now slightly overcommitted.

By the time Haji slammed on the brakes to close him down, Wang Shuo had already used the inside of his right foot to control Grosskreutz’s pass, tapping it into the penalty area to his front right before immediately giving chase.

Inside the penalty area, Haji didn’t dare make a tackle. Schulz, meanwhile, had just reacted and hadn’t had time to shift his balance.

Wang Shuo caught up to the ball and immediately unleashed a powerful shot with his right foot.

The ball shot into the right side of the Hannover 96 goal at incredible speed.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!"

"It’s in!!!"

"43rd minute, and Wang Shuo scores another for Dortmund!"

"2-1!"

"In a span of less than ten minutes, the two teams have combined for three goals!"

"Dortmund have gone from trailing, to equalizing, to taking the lead! What a thrilling turnaround!"

"At the critical moment, a goal and an assist from Wang Shuo have put Dortmund in the lead!"

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The moment referee Gunter Pell blew the final whistle, the Dortmund players on the field swarmed Wang Shuo, surrounding him to celebrate the team’s hard-fought victory.

1-2!

That was the final result on the stadium scoreboard.

Thanks to Wang Shuo’s goal and assist before the end of the first half, Dortmund had come from behind to defeat Hannover 96!

This meant the team now stood at five wins and one loss, earning 15 points. They had overtaken both Bayer Leverkusen and Hamburg to claim the top spot on the league table!

After shaking hands and hugging his teammates, Wang Shuo was the first to head toward the sideline.

"Well done, Wang!" Buvac was the first to greet him.

He still remembered what Wang Shuo was like when he had first arrived at the Mainz first team just last year.

Who would have thought that just one year later, Wang Shuo would already be the offensive core of Dortmund.