The God of Football Starts With Passive Skills

Realizing he’d been tricked, Yepes desperately chased back. Once Wang Shuo reached the ball, Yepes stuck to his inside.

But just as Wang Shuo charged to the right side of the area in front of the box, he suddenly came to a screeching halt. His left shoulder dipped slightly, feinting as if he were about to cut inside.

Yepes’s face paled in horror.

Everyone knew that Wang Shuo was proficient with both his left and right foot.

The Colombian center-back also stopped abruptly, trying to block him.

But how could he have expected that Wang Shuo would suddenly explode into motion again?

He didn’t cut inside. Instead, with his right foot, he pushed the ball into the right side of the penalty area. He then burst forward, leaving Yepes behind at top speed. Breaking into the right side of AC Milan’s box, he caught up to the ball and unleashed a furious shot with his right foot.

The ball shot out like a cannonball, streaking past Abbiati’s hands and into AC Milan’s goal.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!"

"Just nine minutes into the first half, Dortmund is the first to breach AC Milan’s goal!"

"It’s Wang Shuo again!"

"He forced a Breakthrough past Yepes with sheer individual skill, using his signature changes of pace and direction!"

"The unlucky Colombian center-back just can’t keep up with Wang Shuo’s speed and rhythm."

"1-0!"

"The aggregate score is now 2-0!"

"AC Milan must score at least two goals in this match!"

"Let’s take another look at that goal. A spectacular performance from Wang Shuo, a perfect combination of speed and technique."

"Yepes was completely toyed with!"

"It must be said, if the center-back defending just then had been Nesta, he probably would have had a better chance."

While the Dortmund players all ran out to celebrate the goal with Wang Shuo, Yepes stood inside the penalty area with a grim expression.

No one knew that his legs were trembling slightly.

It was a symptom of intense exertion!

He had just given it his absolute all.

"That damned Chinese guy!" Yepes cursed resentfully.

"You shouldn’t have provoked him," Thiago Silva said in a low voice, standing beside him.

One was a Brazilian, the other a Colombian. Playing soccer in Italy, they were relatively close.

"In the first leg, the three of us—me, Nesta, and Van Bommel—teamed up and still couldn’t contain him."

Yepes looked at Thiago Silva, not knowing what to say.

Before the match started, he had been completely unconvinced.

’Three people teaming up couldn’t contain him?’

’Two old men, and Thiago Silva has a clear height disadvantage.’

Yepes had thought he stood a chance!

But now that the match had started, facing Wang Shuo directly, he realized he had been dead wrong.

Thiago Silva also felt he shouldn’t say too much.

If he said more, Yepes wouldn’t listen anyway.

"It’s obvious they’re going to attack your position in this match. Be careful!"

After saying that, Thiago Silva ran off.

’Attack my position?’

Yepes felt a pang of fear.

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After their opening attack was thwarted, AC Milan immediately switched to a defensive counter-attack strategy.

Allegri had clearly realized that if they continued to trade blows, AC Milan would just lose faster.

The reason was simple: Dortmund had Wang Shuo!

As soon as AC Milan fell back to defend, the match instantly turned into a brutal grind of offense versus defense.

The Red-Black Legion once again set up the same ironclad defensive formation from the first leg.

In the subsequent phase of the match, Wang Shuo’s only reward was a Breakthrough on the ball that drew a foul from Yepes, earning the Colombian center-back a yellow card.

But in the 39th minute of the first half, Wang Shuo got another chance.

It was again on AC Milan’s left flank.

Kevin Boateng rushed up to challenge Sven Bender for the ball, forcing him to pass it back to Subotic.

Subotic, who had great chemistry with Wang Shuo, immediately sent a medium-range through ball directly to the feet of Wang Shuo, who had dropped back into an open space.

Wang Shuo received the ball on the right side of the center circle at the midline. With no defenders around, he took the ball, turned, and immediately charged forward.

Up on the front line, Reus was also pushing back Thiago Silva, and by extension, the entire AC Milan defensive line.

After entering the 30-meter zone, he was about to get into his shooting range.

Yepes stopped retreating. He chose to hold his position.

Wang Shuo, who was streaking forward at high speed with the ball, naturally saw this.

And he saw more than that.

After charging into Yepes’s defensive zone, he first stepped out with his left foot, his entire body leaning to the left as well.

Such a realistic-looking feint made Yepes react immediately.

But just then, Wang Shuo suddenly changed direction.

This time, his goal wasn’t a Breakthrough, but to execute a Pass.

After feinting to create an angle, his right foot immediately sent out a through ball.

The ball slipped past Yepes’s side, heading straight for the right side of the penalty area.

Yepes was a left-footed player, and he almost instinctively stuck out his left foot to intercept it.

But he missed by just a hair.

By the time Yepes turned to follow the ball, he saw Reus making a diagonal run behind him at incredible speed, dashing into the right side of the penalty area and perfectly catching up to Wang Shuo’s Passing.

Yepes immediately turned to chase back.

But just as he was about to step into the penalty area, he saw Reus receive the ball on the right side of the box, only to be caught in a pincer by two defenders, Thiago Silva and Jankulovsky.

’We’re safe!’

But in the next moment, a chill shot through Yepes as if he had been plunged into an ice cellar.

’Where’s Wang Shuo?’

When he turned to look for him, he discovered that Wang Shuo had, at some unknown moment, suddenly charged forward from the Arc Top District at top speed, running from the penalty spot straight toward the middle of the six-yard box.

Reus used his speed to force a Breakthrough, managing to send out a cross that landed perfectly just in front of the six-yard box, slightly to the left.