[{"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-289":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},483825,734,"Chapter 289 - 71: Absolute Dead Angle! Bayern’s Bane! Peerless Hero! Dortmund’s Great Opportunity! Make Bayern Regret It","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-289",289,"\u003Cp>After the goal, Shahin excitedly rushed toward Wang Shuo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I knew you’d get that pass to me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Reus looked pitifully at their leader.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Bro, we agreed I’d make a diagonal run into the six-yard box for your pass...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While celebrating the goal with Shahin, Wang Shuo listened carefully to the stands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Still booing?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the restart, Dortmund continued to press the attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the 35th minute, Wang Shuo suddenly dropped back to receive a pass from Foyelner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vienna Rapid’s midfielder, Boskovic, didn’t close him down immediately, giving Wang Shuo the chance to receive the ball and turn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Receive, turn...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Insight] and [Eagle Eye] allowed Wang Shuo to instantly see through the gaps in Vienna Rapid’s defense, and he sent a precise through ball with his right foot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How clever was this pass?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kuba made a late run, and as he charged into the right side of the penalty area, he caught up to the ball just ahead of the center-back. Without needing to adjust, he smashed a shot, sending the ball into Vienna Rapid’s goal once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2-0!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What do you call a silver-platter assist?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kuba was absolutely ecstatic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In that moment, I felt like Ronaldo!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wang, you’re really our Beckham!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo smiled and celebrated the goal with Kuba.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Beckham’s long balls and crosses are amazing, but are his through balls really that good?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reus was frustrated again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Kuba and I both made forward runs at the same time...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Wang, why did you pass to Kuba and not me?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I’m your most loyal brother!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo, however, was focused on the boos from the stands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although quite a few people were still booing, the sound was clearly much weaker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turning his head, Wang Shuo noticed the sulking expression of a slighted wife on Reus’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Marco, just you wait. I’ll set one up for you later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to wait until the second half.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the 53rd minute, Wang Shuo suddenly appeared between the left center-back, Lanewald Soma, and the left-back, Marcus Kaczor, to receive a diagonal pass from Kuba.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Receiving the ball side-on, he performed a one-touch move to get past Soma and broke into the right side of Vienna Rapid’s penalty area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing the retreating center-back Marcus Hiekinen, Wang Shuo first came to a sudden stop, then abruptly accelerated again, dribbling straight for the goal and drawing out the goalkeeper, Paye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately after, Wang Shuo sent a square pass with his right foot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ball traveled precisely between Hiekinen and the goalkeeper Paye, rolling along the six-yard line to the left side of the small box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reus galloped up to meet it and slotted the ball into the net with a simple push.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3-0!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo had practically fed the goal to Reus on a silver platter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the young Dortmund star was finally satisfied and relieved!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo listened carefully again. The boos at Ernst Happel Stadium had finally stopped!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Keep booing!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Why’d you stop?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the 60th minute, Dortmund began making substitutions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first player Klopp subbed off was none other than Wang Shuo, who had just completed a hat-trick of assists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, Dortmund secured a resounding 3-0 away victory against Vienna Rapid, getting their UEFA Europa League group stage campaign off to a flying start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the match, during the post-game summary, Wang Shuo received two messages from the system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Received 7 Passive Value points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because this was his first official match in a European competition, the system awarded him a choice between one Passive Skill Card or 50 Passive Value points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two rewards were essentially the same, so Wang Shuo chose the 50 Passive Value points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Dortmund was defeating Vienna Rapid 3-0 in Vienna, Bayern was in Haifa, Israel, for an away match against Hapoel Haifa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the first round of the Champions League group stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that wasn’t the main point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In last weekend’s *Der Klassiker*, didn’t Van Gaal substitute Gomez off at halftime?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the match, many media outlets speculated about what exactly had happened in Bayern’s locker room during halftime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But surprisingly, everyone at Bayern remained tight-lipped, not leaking a single word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But come the midweek Champions League match, everyone noticed that Gomez was on the bench.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Olic was in the starting lineup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And unexpectedly, against the Israeli team, Bayern Munich couldn’t get the job done in the first 65 minutes, failing to break through their opponent’s goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trio of Ribery, Olic, and Robben, favored by Van Gaal, also failed to produce results.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, it was after Gomez came on as a substitute in the 65th minute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Less than a minute later, Bayern scored from a corner kick, with Van Bitten getting the goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the 85th minute, Thomas Müller scored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the 88th minute, Gomez assisted Thomas Müller for another goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young Bayern star completed his brace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sent the German media into an absolute frenzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why was Gomez benched?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On what grounds was he benched?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The German media collectively launched an assault on Van Gaal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But who was Van Gaal?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was he the type to give in so easily?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come the weekend, for the 6th round of the Bundesliga, Bayern hosted Nuremberg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Van Gaal simply started both Gomez and Olic, deploying a 4-2-3-1 formation with Thomas Müller on the left wing and Ribery rotated out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That sounds pretty good, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for the entire first half, Bayern’s performance was a complete mess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget scoring, they were almost caught on the counter by Nuremberg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then came Van Gaal’s baffling move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At halftime, he substituted Gomez off for Ribery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he had truly poked the hornet’s nest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gomez was so furious he kicked a water bottle on the spot and stormed into the locker room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Substituted at halftime for two league matches in a row.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was an absolute, utter humiliation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bayern fans at Allianz Arena were also very displeased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is this how you treat Germany’s number one center-forward?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to their dismay, just ten minutes into the second half, Olic scored off an assist from Thomas Müller.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterwards, Nuremberg midfielder Gundogan assisted Choupo Moting for a goal, leveling the score.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the 82nd minute, Van Bitten scored again from a corner kick opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2-1!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bayern won!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This left the fans across Germany, and especially the Bayern supporters, with very mixed feelings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Süddeutsche Zeitung went even further, publicly questioning Van Gaal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He is continuously eroding Gomez’s confidence. He is making Germany’s top center-forward start to doubt his own abilities!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, ever since the season began, Van Gaal has failed to find a mature and stable tactical system, constantly changing things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This has left the players confused and unable to adapt!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Bayern was having problems, Dortmund was facing a major opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the Champions League, UEFA Europa League matches are held on Thursday nights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, Dortmund’s 6th round Bundesliga match on the weekend was scheduled for the 20th, a Sunday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the league matches on Friday and Saturday, Hamburg drew 1-1 away at Frankfurt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bayer Leverkusen drew 0-0 at home against Werder Bremen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two teams ranked ahead of Dortmund had both drawn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, they both had 14 points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dortmund had 12 points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as they could beat Hannover 96 away and get 3 points, Dortmund would make a historic climb to the top of the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When was the last time Dortmund was at the top of the table?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final round of the 2002 Bundesliga season.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, under the leadership of Sommer, Dortmund pulled off a last-minute comeback to top the Bundesliga table and claim the championship title!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was also Dortmund’s last moment of glory!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A full seven years!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Dortmund’s fans, these seven years were undoubtedly a period of torment and pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the team was departing for Hanover, Klopp even declared their slogan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We will go there and fight for all three points!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone at Dortmund was filled with ambition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chairman of the Board Watzke and Sporting Director Zorc even traveled with the team to Hanover to oversee this crucial match.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless Dortmund fans were also waiting with bated breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in Hanover, Dortmund got off to a bad start, suffering heavy blows in the first half.\u003C\u002Fp>",1375,"2026-05-30T11:12:32.830Z","2026-06-01T04:31:05.348Z",1,"novelbin.me","3d0b1c948a3ed095e14da5307e69abe80c47d43b5256c38f961158a353e1139e","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-290","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-288",400,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-cover.jpg"]