[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills":3,"chapter-the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-260":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The God of Football Starts With Passive Skills",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},483796,734,"Chapter 260 - 67: A Blessing in Disguise; 1 vs. 3, Wang Shuo Scores Again; Klopp’s Belief","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-260",260,"\u003Cp>For example, compared to last year, this season’s Bundesliga has clearly become a bit more conservative.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the first round of last season’s Bundesliga, seven of the nine matches had a clear winner, with a total of 31 goals scored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This season, however, only 26 goals were scored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A five-goal difference across nine matches is actually quite significant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, after this round of matches, Kicker Magazine analyzed that after the offensive storm of last season’s Bundesliga, the momentum this season was showing a clear reversal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, regarding the two most-watched teams this season—Klopp’s Dortmund and Van Gaal’s Bayern—Kicker Magazine believed both teams were still in an adjustment phase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Take Bayern’s away match against Hoffenheim, for example.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Van Gaal’s team was clearly different from Klinsmann’s last season. Even playing away, they dominated the match on the field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Bayern struggled to convert their dominance into goals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gomez, who had performed exceptionally well in the pre-season friendlies and cup matches, had a terrible game against Hoffenheim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also seemed particularly restless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this match, Hoffenheim employed a high-pressing tactic, and their defensive strategy was built around an offside trap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bayern was caught offside 12 times in the entire match, and Gomez alone accounted for six of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the match, Bild gave Gomez a failing grade of 4.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason given was that \"Mr. 30 Million\" did not perform at the expected level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Van Gaal’s explanation for this was that the absence of Ribery and Robben led to Bayern’s lackluster offense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so, in the first round, the thirty-million-euro man, Gomez, failed to score.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Dortmund’s twenty-million-euro man, Wang Shuo, managed to score the winning goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, after this round, Wang Shuo received praise from numerous media outlets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「One week after the first round of the Bundesliga, the second round began.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bayern played at home, but the result was a 1-1 draw against Werder Bremen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two consecutive draws, especially one at their own home stadium, was absolutely unacceptable for Bayern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At halftime, with Bayern trailing 0-1, the entire Allianz Arena erupted in a storm of boos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who would have thought that with the new season just beginning, Van Gaal was already hearing boos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ribery had returned, Robben also played, and Gomez, who had faced criticism after the first round, finally scored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Bayern still couldn’t get a win.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In contrast to Bayern, Dortmund was playing away against Hamburg this round.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Things were also going terribly for them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hamburg’s head coach was Labbadia, who had managed Bayer Leverkusen last season.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was still using a 4-4-2 formation with two strikers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Dortmund was not last season’s Mainz.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just as the Bumblebees were ambitiously looking to make their mark away from home, a terrible mistake from Hummels occurred just three minutes into the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During a defensive corner, Hummels lost his man, and Hamburg defender Demel scored with a header.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After this goal, the game completely opened up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just one minute later, Kuba sent a diagonal through ball from the right flank. Wang Shuo timed his run perfectly, breaking the offside trap between Mathijsen and Jerome Boateng. Receiving the pass, he scored on a one-on-one, equalizing for Dortmund.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>1-1!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both teams were back on level terms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the 10th minute, a long-range shot from Ze Roberto caused Weidenfeller to make a save error, and they conceded another goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two minutes later, it was Ze Roberto who orchestrated another attack, and former Bayern striker Guerrero scored again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the short span of three minutes, Dortmund’s defense conceded two goals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>1-3!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that, the match descended into a stalemate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having secured a comfortable lead, Hamburg began to focus on defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Labbadia had his two center-backs, Mathijsen and Jerome Boateng, man-mark Wang Shuo, he still kept trying to find an opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Dortmund’s biggest problem in this match was that their midfield and defense were in disarray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Dortmund tried to counter the home team’s high press with their own, the experienced Ze Roberto and Trochowski changed the course of the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was especially true for the two goals conceded in the 10th and 12th minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, Dortmund lost the away match 1-3!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the post-match press conference, a dejected Klopp said, \"We only played poorly for three minutes, and we were brutally punished for it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the rest of the match, Dortmund had actually played well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in those three minutes, they conceded two goals back-to-back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the match, both Hummels and Subotic received a rating of 5.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo, having scored in two consecutive rounds, received a rating of 2.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bild’s commentary was: \"In the first 15 minutes, he was the only Dortmund player who performed normally.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Throughout the entire match, his performance was as stable as ever, but his teammates didn’t give him enough support.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dortmund and Bayern, the two most-watched teams in the Bundesliga this season, both had a poor start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this was different from the Bayern fans booing Van Gaal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dortmund’s attitude toward Klopp was more lenient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「On the bus back to Dortmund from Hamburg, no one said a word.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone sat in their seats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made the atmosphere inside the bus, speeding down the highway, feel somber and oppressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone knew that playing Hamburg away would be difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the past four years, Dortmund had never won in Hamburg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to lose in such a manner left everyone furious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lads!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After an unknown period of silence, Klopp, sitting in the very front row, suddenly stood up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed he had had enough of the oppressive atmosphere.\u003C\u002Fp>",927,"2026-05-30T11:12:32.830Z","2026-06-01T04:31:05.348Z",1,"novelbin.me","06f8162dde0c2e59387d0e216e41201b4eb1b689ec99a2f5162f3d5fc0c947a1","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-261","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-259",400,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-cover.jpg"]