MORISAKI AND SORIMACHI AREN'T GETTING UP!! MOREOVER, THE BALL IS SLIPPING AWAY... SLOWLY, BUT TOWARDS NANKATSU'S GOAL!!
BUT NANKATSU'S CAPTAIN ISHIZAKI MANAGED TO RUN ALL THE WAY HERE AND SLIDING DESPERATELY TO BE ON TIME, HE MANAGES TO CLEAR THE BALL!! IT'S A SLIDING MONKEY CLEAR!
Come on! This isn't even funny!!
BUT HE ACE STRIKER HYUGA IS CLOSE!! HE'S DEFINITELY FASTER THAN NANKATSU'S CENTRAL DEFENDERS!! HOWEVER THEY ARE DOING ALL THE CAN TO PREVENT HIM FROM RUNNING, ON THE VERGE OF THE FOUL!!
Let me... Go!!
EVEN THOUGH HYUGA MANAGED TO BREAK FREE, IZAWA, WHO'S NOW PLAYING AS A RIGHT SIDEBACK, IS THE FIRST ON THE BALL!! HE'S CLEARING IT WITH THE HEAD...
IZAWA SENT IT ON THE SIDELINE, PROBABLY TO INTERRUPT THE MATCH, AS MORISAKI AND SORIMACHI AREN'T GETTING UP! AHH, BUT SAWADA INTERCEPTED THE BALL?!
What, aren't they worried about their teammate!?
MAYBE HE'S GOING TO... NO, SAWADA ISN'T STOPPING! HE'S SHOOTING!!
Good, Sawada! No mercy, even if one of our own is involved!!
AND IT'S IN!! THE REFEREE IS WHISTLING, TOHO S... AHH, BUT...
NO, THE SCORE IS STILL 1-0 FOR TOHO, THE REFEREE WAS WHISTLING TO STOP THE GAME, SINCE MORISAKI AND SORIMACHI ARE STILL ON THE GROUND! WE THOUGHT THEY WERE ONLY LIGHTLY INJURED, BUT IT MAY BE WORSE!
Morisaki! Are you alright!?
Yeah... I took it on the solar plexus... I was out of breath but... I feel better now...
MORISAKI IS SLOWLY GETTING UP, BUT AFTER COMING TO CHECK ON HIS PLAYER, KIRA IS ASKING FOR A STRETCHER TO BRING SORIMACHI OUT!!
I'm sorry, because of me the referee stopped the game before we scored...
Don't be, that was an excellent display of my soccer creed...
You went as far as risking an injury to score... Even though you couldn't, you still neutralized their
keeper by purposedly hitting him in the solar plexus to give your teammates a chance... Not to mention that this clash could've turned out to be a penalty in our favor...
They're marking Hyuga heavily but by bringing danger to their goal, you made them realize he isn't the only one
they should worry about... Giving them two options: split their defense to mark both you and Hyuga, making it easier for Hyuga to score...
Or they'll get someone else to mark you, meaning that particular player will have to work extra
hard to be on both offense and defense, or he'll focus on marking you, it'll weaken their offense and thus the burden for our defenders. It's a win situation for us whatever they do!
But what if... My injury is too severe... And I can't go back?
Hopefuly it's going to get better after a massage... And if it doesn't...
You'll get back in anyway! They won't know you can't play... You'll still serve your purpose as a decoy...
I see...
I trust you have no problems with that, right?
Of course not. Victory... Is all that matters!!
Coach Kira... Toho undoubtedly have the edge in terms of tactics... Nankatsu's players are like
puppets moved by his hands... His directives are giving slight advantages to Toho bit by bit... He isn't overlooking anything... Compared to him...
Oh, man.... I get the feeling that we're attacking less and less... Are we doing something wrong?
Data is absolute... But even if you have it, you must have experience to exploit it...
Even I lost some battle of tactics against him in previous matches...
They lost the battle of tactics to Coach Kira... The man who defeated Roberto Hongo before
retiring!