The A very common fallacy in aerodynamics is the so-called "equal path fallacy". This states that wing lift is caused by the longer path, hence the larger air velocity, over the curved top of a wing versus the flat bottom.
However, it is simply not true that the streamlines that separated at the wing leading edge meet up at the same time at the wing trailing edge. There is a permanent shift in position between the two.
The problem is maybe in believing that a wing can leave behind such a permanent shift in position between the whole half of the infinite atmosphere above it and the whole half below it, with a sharp line separating the two. But this is due the nature of the mathematics. A true "potential" ( zero friction ) flow influences the whole universe, like it or not.
It is only by the 3D ( Newtonian, if you like ) concept of the starting vortex left far, far behind on the runway, that this position shift is reversed.