The God of Football Starts With Passive Skills

Wang Shuo altered his run and charged forward, unleashing a volley with his left foot before the ball could even touch the ground.

No matter how quickly Thiago Silva reacted, turning instantly to chase back, he was simply too late to stop it.

The ball rocketed off Wang Shuo’s foot and into the left side of AC Milan’s goal.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!"

"It’s in again!"

"In the 39th minute of the first half, Dortmund adds another to their tally!"

"It’s a goal from Wang Shuo again!"

"He’s scored a brace!"

"A brilliant bit of two-man play up front! Reus cuts in from the right flank and delivers a cross, and Wang Shuo meets it in front of goal to score!"

"2-0!"

"3-0 on aggregate!"

"AC Milan concedes another goal right before the end of the first half!"

"They are in a terrible position now."

...

The first half ended 2-0.

Unlike the Dortmund players, who walked off the pitch in high spirits, the AC Milan players looked somewhat dejected.

This was especially true for Yepes.

Throughout the entire first half, Wang Shuo had been relentlessly attacking his side of the field, putting him under immense pressure.

He had not only received a yellow card, but the head referee had also given him two stern verbal warnings.

"He’s about to break!"

Wang Shuo said with a smile to Klopp in the home team’s locker room.

Klopp knew Wang Shuo all too well. He said nothing, simply smiling as he asked in return,

"What do you have in mind?"

"He’s slow on the turn. Try to play the ball in behind him as much as possible. I’m going to run him ragged... help him grow!"

Grow?

Klopp and everyone else in the locker room couldn’t help but laugh.

Yepes was already 35 years old. What growth was there left for him?

Teaching him a lesson was more like it!

"Done!"

Klopp didn’t hesitate for a moment. He looked at the rest of the players and pointed to Wang Shuo.

"Do as he says!"

But just as Wang Shuo was ambitiously planning to "help" Yepes grow, he never would have expected what happened in the 53rd minute. Götze drifted out to the right, made a breakthrough after combining with Kuba, and sent in a cross.

Wang Shuo made a quick run from outside the area and charged into the box.

Yepes did the same as before, grabbing onto Wang Shuo’s jersey and chasing for dear life.

But how could he possibly keep up?

But this time he didn’t let go in time. Hoping to get away with it, he held the jersey tight, pulling it back while trying to speed up and catch him.

As Wang Shuo was sprinting at full tilt, he was suddenly pulled back. No matter how good the jersey’s quality was, it ripped.

He lost his balance and tumbled to the ground inside the AC Milan penalty area.

Just as Yepes raised his hands innocently to show he hadn’t committed a foul, the Belgian referee, Brickley, blew his whistle.

The Milan center-back was completely dumbfounded!

’I already put my hands up, so why did he blow the whistle?’

’This is the penalty box!’

The entire Westfalen Stadium erupted, roaring for a penalty.

And just as they hoped, Brickley pointed unhesitatingly to the spot, then beckoned Yepes over.

The Colombian center-back hesitated.

But Brickley walked over to him, pulling a yellow card from his chest pocket.

After showing the yellow, he immediately produced a red card.

The stadium instantly erupted in thunderous cheers.

Yepes looked frustrated, wanting to argue his case, but he was speechless.

Especially when Wang Shuo got up from the pitch, the torn jersey was glaringly obvious.

No matter how shameless he was, he couldn’t possibly claim it tore by itself, could he?

Wang Shuo and Yepes walked toward the sideline at the same time.

It was a particularly interesting sight.

Wang Shuo, however, noticed that Yepes was walking a little strangely.

"Are you injured?"

Inwardly, he was ecstatic. ’Serves you right,’ he thought. ’This is the price for looking down on me.’ But on the outside, his expression remained calm.

Yepes gave Wang Shuo a complex look, but in the end, he said nothing and walked off the pitch.

As Wang Shuo went over to get a new jersey, he saw the AC Milan team doctor approaching Yepes.

’Looks like he’s really injured.’

’This isn’t how the script was supposed to go,’ Wang Shuo mused. ’Don’t tell me he knew I was going to run him ragged and got a red card on purpose just to get off the field?’

Wang Shuo couldn’t help but wonder. ’If that’s true, there must be a mole in the Dortmund locker room.’

...

Wang Shuo wasn’t in the habit of taking penalty kicks.

Shahin calmly converted the penalty, putting Dortmund up 3-0.

Now a man down, Allegri immediately made a substitution.

Lillorotale was brought on.

At this point, down to ten men, AC Milan began to defend with everyone back, essentially parking the bus.

For Allegri’s team, the biggest issue was no longer staging a comeback, but rather how to salvage some final shred of dignity.

That meant conceding as few goals as possible and avoiding a blowout loss.

Dortmund also eased off the pressure a bit, and the match ultimately ended 3-0.

With a 4-0 aggregate score, Dortmund smoothly advanced to the Champions League quarterfinals!

This sent the entire Westfalen Stadium into a wild celebration.

Wang Shuo, in particular, was met with cheers from the entire crowd.

However, the other two Bundesliga teams were not faring so well.

The day before Dortmund’s 3-0 victory over AC Milan, Schalke 04 had been crushed 6-1 on aggregate by Manchester United over their two legs.

After being knocked out of the Champions League Round of 16, Magat was immediately fired.

Schalke 04 was currently being managed by an assistant coach, and it was rumored that they were trying to hire Hoffenheim’s head coach, Rangnick.

Meanwhile, in another match happening at the same time, Bayern Munich, despite winning the first leg 1-0 away against Inter Milan, was stunningly defeated 3-2 at home, losing the tie on a comeback by Inter Milan.