Maxed Out Shooting from the Start: Messi Begs Me to Join Argentina
Chapter 46

Terrifying Blast, You Call This 16 Years Old?

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The match quickly resumed.

As Team A's attacks grew increasingly fluid, Team B was, unsurprisingly, pinned inside their own half by Team A.

Sahin's perfect orchestration made every one of Team A's attacks highly threatening.

On the right flank, where he excelled, Su Bai was marking Borussia Dortmund's most terrifying player.

Marco Reus.

Borussia Dortmund's soul, he possessed unparalleled speed and dribbling ability.

After receiving Sven Bender's pass, Sahin immediately sent the ball to Reus on the left.

Su Bai bent low, ready to defend.

Looking at Su Bai in front of him, Reus slowly nudged the ball forward with his right foot.

Then, in an instant, Reus cut the ball to the left.

That cut pulled Su Bai's center of gravity to the right as well.

Reus quickly tapped the ball right with his left foot, then pushed it forward with his right.

Su Bai was beaten cleanly and decisively.

Team A immediately surged forward as a whole.

Su Bai, who had been completely outclassed by Reus, was not particularly discouraged.

With his current defensive attributes, there was no way he could have stopped a Reus at the peak of his form.

Without a moment's hesitation, Su Bai turned and sprinted after Reus.

However, his speed of 85 was simply nowhere near enough against Reus's nearly 92.

After getting past him, Reus did not continue down the wing.

After a burst forward, Reus drove the ball straight into the middle.

A through pass.

Shuang Biaowan received Reus's through ball inside the penalty area.

He unleashed a thunderous right-footed strike.

The ball flew cleanly into the net.

2:0!

Seeing Reus tear through the right flank so easily, Team B's players began complaining one after another.

Although Su Bai still could not understand German, he could tell from the looks his teammates gave him that his terrible defending had made them somewhat dissatisfied.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang picked up the ball and returned to the center circle.

Perhaps because of Su Bai's poor defending just now, Team B did not send the ball to the right flank at all during their next attack.

Su Bai simply ran around foolishly with them for an entire circuit.

Team B's attack was soon snuffed out by Hummels.

Team A counterattacked.

But!

At that moment, a scene that shocked everyone unfolded.

After completing the interception, Hummels directly passed the ball to Sven Bender at the top of the penalty arc.

Sven Bender received the ball, turned, and was just about to move it on.

But Su Bai suddenly charged to his right.

Seeing that this newly arrived rookie actually wanted to win the ball back, Sven Bender immediately pulled the ball in front of himself and shielded it on his right side.

Twenty-four-year-old Sven Bender had been Borussia Dortmund's starting defensive midfielder for the past two years.

His solid defending, combined with his formidable physique, had made Sven Bender a true midfield wall for Borussia Dortmund.

Seeing that rookie actually take the initiative to challenge Sven Bender physically, all the Dortmund players wore expressions of eager spectators.

They wanted to see how Sven Bender would teach this rookie a lesson.

But then!

Something astonishing happened.

The very moment Su Bai collided with Sven Bender.

Dortmund's normally formidable midfield enforcer looked as though he had been struck by some savage beast.

He was sent flying backward from the impact.

That...

What?

That was Sven Bender!!!

That was Sven Bender, the man who could stand up to Schweinsteiger!

Why did he seem like he was made of paper in front of that sixteen-year-old?

The ball that had been at Sven Bender's feet obediently rolled to the rookie's feet.

The rookie lightly nudged it forward with his left foot, then directly swung up his left leg!

What was he doing?

Shooting?

In front of goal!

Team A's goalkeeper, Weidenfeller, stared intently at Su Bai's shooting motion.

As Dortmund's elite keeper.

Weidenfeller immediately saw where Su Bai was aiming.

The right side of the goal!

Without hesitation.

Weidenfeller pushed off and moved to his right.

"Bang!!!"

The instant Weidenfeller moved!

An unbelievable explosive sound suddenly rang out across the pitch!!!

That sound!

It was as though the rookie in front of him had kicked the football apart.

Weidenfeller watched as the ball distorted in a shocking manner.

And after that distortion.

The football shot toward the goal like a bolt of lightning.

Weidenfeller froze!

His right foot, which had already started moving, stopped.

Not just his right foot!

Even his outstretched right hand froze in midair.

There was no other reason!

He knew that with that kind of speed, there was no way he could save it.

"Si-u!"

Weidenfeller even heard a strange sound by his ear!

What was that?

What kind of absurd ball speed was that?

Was that the sound of the football tearing through the air?

In that instant!

Weidenfeller was utterly terrified by the black-haired kid before him.

And across the entire training ground!

Everyone was stunned!

Hummels, Łukasz Piszczek, Sahin, Großkreutz, Neven Subotić!

Everyone!

Everyone stared dumbfounded at the black-haired kid standing in front of the penalty area.

What terrifying strength was that?

What terrifying physicality was that?

And you called him fucking sixteen?

Everyone stared dumbfounded at the black-haired youth who looked like a monster!

At the sidelines!

Klopp clenched his right fist tightly.

His fingers were practically digging into his flesh.

He had fallen into a state of utter excitement.

He had been right!

The guy before his eyes was a gift from God to Borussia Dortmund.

He could hardly wait to send the kid onto the pitch.

And that had only been one shot.

The kid's strongest weapon was his cut-ins and changes of direction!

Cutting inside just like Robben!!!

All of a sudden!

Klopp remembered the bald man who had scored the last-minute winner against Dortmund in last season's UEFA Champions League final.

That guy was on Bayern Munich's right flank.

The Super Cup was coming up soon.

He wondered what expression that guy would have when he saw that Borussia Dortmund had someone younger and stronger than him who possessed the same unstoppable cut-in shot?

"Are you okay?"

At that moment!

Su Bai, who had scored, did not celebrate.

He bent down and extended his right hand toward Sven Bender, who lay on the turf with a shocked expression!

"Okay! Okay! I am okay!"

"Su! That was a beautiful shot!"

At that moment, Sahin walked over to Su Bai, patted him on the shoulder, and praised him!

It was not just Sahin. Even Reus, who had just steamrolled Su Bai, along with Großkreutz and the other first-team regulars, came over!

They pulled Sven Bender up from the turf.

However, the contempt in their eyes for a rookie had already vanished.

That was professional football—only strength mattered!

Everything depended on strength!

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