
A DIVING HEADER... WITH THE FACE? AFTER ISHIZAKI'S PECULIAR MONKEY DASH, IT'S NOW A DIVING FACE SHOT!!

Guh!!

MISUGI IS DIVING TOO, BUT TOO LATE!! HE'S MISSING THE BALL BY A HAIR'S BREADTH!!

AND IT'S... IT'S IN!? MUSASHI'S PLAYERS ALL REACTED A MOMENT TOO LATE, PROBABLY CONVINCED THAT THEIR CAPTAIN MISUGI WOULDN'T LOSE TO NANKATSU'S CAPTAIN ISHIZAKI... THE FATE OF THE MATCH WAS DECIDED BY A CONFRONTATION BETWEEN CAPTAINS!!

AND THE WHISTLE FOR THE END OF THE MATCH ECHOES!! THERE IS SOME TALK BETWEEN THE REFEREE AND MUSASHI'S PLAYERS... THEY'RE PROBABLY ARGUING THAT THE GOAL WAS SCORED AFTER THE TIME WAS OVER... BUT TO NO AVAIL!! THE GOAL IS VALID, AND NANKATSU IS THE TEAM GOING TO FACE TOHO IN THE FINALS IN TWO DAYS!!

AND AS YOU KNOW, THERE IS NO MATCH FOR THE 3RD PLACE! THIS TOURNAMENT IS OVER FOR MUSASHI AND THEIR CAPTAIN MISUGI, THEY WON'T APPEAR IN THE FINALS TO FACE TOHO THIS YEAR!!


Now I'm sure of it... Nankatsu sure is a strong team, but...


Their ace... Tsubasa... Is lacking something!! And that will be his downfall...


And Hyuga, for the last match... No more seal. You can go full power as soon as the match begins...

Hell yeah! I was waiting for this, coach Kira!


So far I have purposedly put seals on Kojiro's real abilities... First, in order to keep them
secret, but most of all, because like that, he was like a wild tiger in a cage that I starved for days... Once he'll come out of the cage...


He'll be a bloodthirsty, killing wild tiger!!


Man, this match was so intense...

Yeah 90 minutes... Moreover there's a price to pay for playing beyond our limits...


Tell me about it, Tsubasa and I had to carry that monkey in the locker room!

Come on, I'm the hero of this match, give me a rest!


I'll admit I was relieved you scored that last goal... It might have been my fault it was so
difficult, since I somehow convinced their manager to be back on their side...

Don't worry about that, it was close, but I'd rather play against an opponent at full power rather than a shadow of himself...


Even before that, he impressed me... Countering my field shaping in the middle of the match when he
never experienced it before...


Come on guys, get in the bus! we'll join you later. I have to talk with your captain...

......


What do you want from me? More humiliation? The "Genius", "Japan's hero"... Not even
making it to the finals this time...


This is all... A lie... A farce... You were right to get away from me... Go back to Tsubasa...

Jun, no matter how many times you're going to provoke me or push me away, I'm not going anywhere...
Tsubasa is just a friend and what I've said to him was wrong, I realize that now, but more importantly...


Tell me... What really happened... 3 years ago...

3 years ago... That's when I was confronted to "field shaping" the first time...


Our young genius... Japan's inspiration, defeated... Of course, Toho won against him many times too...


There was also...
3 years ago...


I wonder... If we made the right choice...