Chapter 389: Chapter 86: Super Striker! Two Great Historical Records! Punching Müller, Kicking Klinsmann! That Incredible Touch

It was a pity that when Kuba got the ball on the right sideline, he didn’t push forward in time. If he had managed a breakthrough on the right, there would have immediately been two options in the center.

Wang Shuo also made a timely forward run to the right side, just outside the penalty area, to provide an option.

But with no opening, Kuba passed it back to Kael.

Wang Shuo immediately shouted to Kael. With his back to the opponent’s goal, he stretched out his right arm and pointed toward the left flank.

Kael was thinking the exact same thing.

After receiving the ball, the captain passed it to Foyelner.

Foyelner, who started as a winger but could also play in the number 10 position, trapped the ball and took a touch forward. He then spotted Schmelzer overlapping at full speed on the left flank and immediately played a through ball.

Bayer Leverkusen’s right-back, Schwab, was pulled into the middle by Reus, causing the entire defensive line to shift left and leaving the right flank completely open.

As Kael passed to Foyelner, Wang Shuo had already turned and begun his forward run.

He glanced toward the center once more.

Reus was also making a run, heading for the near post. Götze was in the center, his run slightly deeper.

Wang Shuo made a decisive move, quickly charging into the penalty area.

Hyypia was clearly focused on Wang Shuo.

So, after entering the penalty area, Wang Shuo deliberately slowed his pace and even drifted toward the center.

But Hyypia still didn’t dare to relax his vigilance.

He glanced to his right to see the situation develop, then quickly turned back to watch Wang Shuo, terrified of losing his man.

Meanwhile, after receiving Foyelner’s through ball, Schmelzer had made a high-speed overlapping run. Near the left edge of the penalty area, he glanced toward the middle and whipped in a cross with his left foot.

It was a low, driven cross, landing right at the near post.

Reus was caught between two defenders, Schwab and Friedrich, and had no chance of reaching the ball.

Götze, in the center, was near the penalty spot but had fallen slightly behind the play.

After hitting the turf, the ball picked up speed.

Untouched, it zipped along the line of the six-yard box, flashing from the near post toward the far post.

The moment Schmelzer sent the cross in, Bayer Leverkusen’s penalty area was in disarray.

After glancing toward the near post, Hyypia quickly turned back to look for Wang Shuo...

’Huh? Where did Wang Shuo go?’

Hyypia couldn’t find him, and his face fell in shock.

Wang Shuo had seized the moment Hyypia looked away, bursting into a sudden, diagonal run behind the defender toward the right post.

Hyypia reacted quickly, but he was a step too slow.

Just as the ball arrived at the far post, Wang Shuo met it perfectly.

At almost the exact same moment, Hyypia reached out and gave Wang Shuo’s jersey a tug on the chest.

It was a quick pull and release.

It happened in a flash. The move was incredibly slick; he’d clearly done it countless times before.

Wang Shuo was pulled off balance.

But the ball was already there.

In that moment, Wang Shuo channeled all his strength into his left leg to prop himself up, slowing his fall. At the same time, he leveraged his [Coordination] advantage and quickly stuck out his right foot.

The ball was coming in too fast.

The ball connected with the inside of Wang Shuo’s right foot, and without him even needing to apply any force, it ricocheted off him as if hitting a wall and flew into the goal.

Almost at the very moment Wang Shuo hit the ground, the ball rolled over Bayer Leverkusen’s goal line.

Adler, positioned on the left, was powerless to stop the far-post finish.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!"

"It’s in!!!"

"In the 29th minute, Dortmund takes the lead against Bayer Leverkusen!"

"A far-post finish from Wang Shuo opens the scoring for Dortmund!"

"1-0!"

"Heynckes was absolutely right before the game: to beat Dortmund, you have to stop Wang Shuo from scoring!"

"On the slow-motion replay, we can see that Hyypia didn’t even hesitate to commit a foul, but Wang Shuo still managed to get the ball into the back of the net!"

"That’s what a super striker can do!"

After scoring, Wang Shuo leaped up, turned, and charged toward the stands to celebrate with the fans.

The Dortmund fans in the stands roared, showering Wang Shuo with thunderous applause and cheers!

...

With the first goal on the board, things became much easier.

Bayer Leverkusen began to launch a counter-attack.

But in the 39th minute, Dortmund won the ball in their own half. Kael hit a long, diagonal pass, once again finding the left flank.

Schmelzer once again made a full-speed run forward.

This time, however, Wang Shuo was in the center, positioned between the two center-backs, Hyypia and Friedrich.

Moreover, he was intentionally slowing down to keep himself onside.

The moment Schmelzer sent the cross in, Wang Shuo exploded with a burst of speed, instantly leaving Friedrich and Hyypia behind. He raced to the edge of the six-yard box and, beating Adler to the ball, flicked it into Bayer Leverkusen’s goal.

This time, Wang Shuo stayed on his feet.

After scoring, he quickly turned and ran straight for Schmelzer, the man who had assisted him twice.

Ecstatic, Wang Shuo leaped onto Schmelzer, waving his arms wildly.

"Two goals for Dortmund in the span of just ten minutes!"

"And the two goals were almost carbon copies of each other! Both came from crosses delivered by left-back Schmelzer after a quick run down Bayer Leverkusen’s right flank, setting up Wang Shuo to finish!"

"2-0!"

"Bayer Leverkusen seems to have been completely caught off guard by the late runs from Dortmund’s full-backs."

"Their defenders were too preoccupied with marking Reus and Götze."

"Meanwhile, the right-winger, Augusto, showed little willingness to track back on defense, which meant Schmelzer was frequently left completely unmarked on that side."