Kevin-Prince Boateng provided no-look assist for his teammate Choupo-Moting in their 3-2 win over Wolfsburg over the weekend.
The touch from the Ghanaian international was football at its finest and real eye-catcher for lovers of the game.
Schalke's win against Wolfsburg gives a much-needed boost to the Roberto Di Matteo project. But for a team with such humble beginnings, hard work - rather than an ex-Chelsea boss - will ensure success.
On Saturday against Wolfsburg it looked like it was going to be an easy win for Schalke. After 25 minutes the hosts were three-nil up and cruising. Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting looked marginally offside for the first goal, then he sprinted from deep to add a second. Another minute or two later, the ball then ricocheted around Wolfsburg’s box and ended up past Diego Benaglio.
But nothing is ever easy at Schalke. In the end, thrown under pressure from the minute 74 goal from Wolfsburg's Nicklas Bendtner, Schalke clung on and survived. The cheers at the end were not ones of delight, they were of sheer relief. The win means Schalke have now clawed their way back up to sixth on the table.
Even if Schalke did let their opponents back into a game that should never have been a risk the defensive instruction of coach Di Matteo will surely have helped in the closing stages, barricading against Wolfsburg's high-earning attack.
Die Knappen – an old German word for ‘the Miners’ and Schalke's other nickname – were forced to dig deep to get the right result here. And it will surely be like that all season, no matter how big a name they have coaching them.