Free Web NovelChapter 502: Chapter 102: Winning Streak! Another Hat-trick! The Third Player in World Football! He Can Do Whatever He Wants
But after coming to Dortmund, he realized everything had changed.
Especially playing up close alongside Wang Shuo, he realized the gap between them was still immense.
But Wang Shuo had been helping him the whole time.
And now, he had finally scored!
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「The evening of September 22nd, at Dortmund’s Westfalen Stadium.」
Bundesliga Matchday 5, Dortmund hosted the newly-promoted Kaiserslautern.
In the 18th minute of the match, Dortmund won the ball near the halfway line and quickly passed it forward.
Götze drifted to the right, pushing the ball forward, preparing to link up with Kuba.
Kaiserslautern was tightly marking Dortmund’s attackers.
But at this moment, Piszczek suddenly made a high-speed overlapping run from behind, completely unmarked. Götze immediately passed the ball to the right, outside the penalty area. Piszczek surged forward, caught up to Götze’s pass, and sent a low cross with his right foot into the six-yard box.
Wang Shuo instantly burst into action, shrugging off Kaiserslautern’s two center-backs. He met the ball in front of the goal and calmly tapped it into the net.
1-0!
In that instant, the entire Westfalen Stadium erupted with fervent passion.
More than 80,000 fans cheered wildly.
But Dortmund didn’t let up. Their attack continued relentlessly.
Kaiserslautern was no pushover either.
Although they were a newly-promoted team, they had started the season well.
So far, in four matches, they had two wins, one draw, and one loss. That record included a 2-0 home victory over Bayern Munich on Matchday 2, a result that had greatly boosted their morale!
Although they were winless in their last two matches—losing 2-1 away to Mainz and drawing 2-2 at home against Hoffenheim—Kaiserslautern still put up a valiant fight against a ferocious Dortmund side.
They even tried to press forward on the attack, hoping to equalize.
In the 31st minute, after Dortmund won the ball in their own half, Shahin sent out a long pass, delivering it precisely to Wang Shuo’s feet.
At that exact moment, Wang Shuo was positioned right between Kaiserslautern’s two center-backs.
As the ball came toward him, he was bracketed by two defenders.
Faced with this long pass from the backfield, Wang Shuo didn’t even deliberately turn to receive it. Instead, he turned his body sideways, extended his right foot, and deftly guided Shahin’s long pass forward.
The difficult, high-speed pass was instantly tamed.
It rolled obediently into his path, exactly where he wanted it.
And as he controlled the ball, Wang Shuo himself, like an agile cheetah, burst between the two center-backs.
"What a beautiful first touch!"
"He’s not offside!"
"Wang Shuo beats the offside trap! It’s a one-on-one!"
Wang Shuo controlled the ball 30 meters out and charged all the way into the box.
Although Kaiserslautern’s two center-backs were desperately chasing him from behind, that first touch had been just too good.
Wang Shuo then broke into a sprint, moving so fast that the two center-backs had no chance of catching him.
After storming into the penalty area and facing a goalkeeper who was hesitant to leave his six-yard box, Wang Shuo dummied a shot with his left foot. But after planting his left, he suddenly unleashed a powerful strike with his right.
The ball rocketed into the right side of the Kaiserslautern net.
"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!"
"He scores again!!"
"A brace!"
"Wang Shuo scores again."
"2-0!"
And after scoring two consecutive goals, the game completely opened up for Dortmund.
Just seven minutes after his goal, Wang Shuo dropped deep to receive a through ball from Shahin. With his back to the attack, he didn’t even turn, simply flicking the ball out to the left wing with his left foot.
Reus surged forward, latched onto Wang Shuo’s chipped pass, controlled it near the left corner of the box, then cut inside and fired a powerful shot.
3-0!
In the first half, Dortmund’s attacks were like a relentless tide. The three-goal lead left the more than 80,000 fans in the stadium utterly mesmerized.
In the second half, Wang Shuo was substituted off in the 60th minute.
Lewandowski came on to replace him.
Just five minutes later, from a corner kick, Shahin delivered the ball and Hummels scored with a header.
4-0!
Then, in the 75th minute, Lewandowski received a diagonal pass from Kuba on the right wing. He controlled the ball at the edge of the area, broke into the box for a one-on-one, and chipped the ball over the keeper into Kaiserslautern’s goal.
5-0!
The entire Westfalen Stadium transformed into a sea of celebration!
Dortmund was having a dream start to the season.
It wasn’t just the string of victories. More importantly, their momentum was unstoppable, and the goals were flowing like a torrent.
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「The afternoon of September 25th, at Hamburg Miller Gate Stadium.」
Bundesliga Matchday 6, Dortmund played away against St. Pauli.
From the moment the starting whistle blew, Dortmund began to apply frantic pressure on St. Pauli.
Dortmund’s signature high-press was something the newly promoted Bundesliga team was completely unaccustomed to.
Just nine minutes into the game, center-back Sorante made a fatal error while passing back to his goalkeeper.
He never would have imagined that at the exact moment he made the pass, Wang Shuo would suddenly burst out from behind him, sprinting straight for the ball.
The goalkeeper, Kessler, turned pale with shock and rushed out of his goal.
But he was a step too slow. Wang Shuo charged into the penalty area and got to the ball first. He knocked it to his right, sidestepping Kessler, and then easily tapped it into the empty net to open the scoring for Dortmund.
1-0!
After conceding an early goal, St. Pauli tried to stabilize their defense, but Dortmund continued their fierce assault.
