Another 120: The zone 2

AH, BUT HYUGA IS ADAPTING HIMSELF TO THE SITUATION, AND RATHER THAN SHOOTING, HE'S PASSING THE BALL BESIDES THE WALL!!

Don't think I'm just a shooting idiot!!

THIS IS FOR SORIMACHI!! HOWEVER TSUBASA WAS IN THE AREA AND EVEN THOUGH HE'S JUST GRAZING THE BALL, THIS IS ENOUGH TO MAKE IT GO OFF COURSE!! STILL THE BALL IS LOBBED TOWARDS...


... NANKATSU'S GOAL! BUT MORISAKI IS REACTING WELL AND HE'S CATCHING THE BALL BEFORE IT CAN GO IN!!

Safe! scoring an own goal would've been really bad...

NANKATSU ISN'T WASTING TIME, RATHER THAN CIRCULATING THE BALL THEY'RE DIRECTLY SENDING IT TO THE PLAYMAKER TSUBASA!!

!! That's...!!

TOHO IS TOO EAGER TO MARK HIM, AS SOON AS HE'S LURING ENOUGH OPPONENTS, HE'S PASSING THE BALL ON THE SIDELINE...

That's it Sawada! You noticed on time...

TOHO'S DEFENSE LEFT TAKI COMPLETELY UNMARKED, HE HAS ALL THE SPACE IN THE WORLD TO ADVANCE AND SEND A CENTERING!!

Damn!! If Tsubasa is getting it that kind of ball...

TSUBASA IS JUMPING... AH! HE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS GOING FOR AN OVERHEAD BUT HE'S LETTING THE BALL GO THROUGH! WAKASHIMAZU WAS TRICKED!!

Wh... No!!

THIS WAS FOR KISUGI BESIDE HIM!! HE'S KICKING THE FALLING BALL WITH A LONG SLIDING VOLLEY SHOT!!

That skill is working on keepers too!?

WAKASHIMAZU IS DIVING... BUT AFTER BEING LURED OUT BY TSUBASA, HE'S STILL MISSING IT BY A HAIR'S BREADTH!! KISUGI THE SCOREMONGER IS GOING TO SCORE THE FIRST GOAL FOR HIS TEAM...!!


AH, NO!! SAWADA WAS IN THE AREA, AS IF TO FILL THE GAP LEFT BY THE PLAYERS LURED BY TSUBASA!! HE'S MANAGING TO PUSH THE BALL AWAY!! IT'S GOING TO CROSS THE LINE!!

What!! No way...

So when they played against Furano, he really was able to detect it... It's... useless too..

BUT ISHIZAKI OVERLAPPED ALL THE WAY HERE!! HE DOESN'T LET THE BALL CROSS THE LINE, AND HE'S CENTERING THE BALL AGAIN, CONTINUING THE OFFENSE ON THIS GOOD MOMENTUM!!

Take this!! This isn't over!!

Yes! That's it, with my overhead, for sure... We will...

AH, BUT HIS OVERHEAD IS BLOCKED IN THE AIR!!

Ko... Kojiro!?

BOTH TSUBASA AND HYUGA CAN'T FIND THEIR BALANCE BACK AFTER SUCH AN ACROBATIC CLASH!! IZAWA IS RUNNING TOWARDS THE FALLING BALL, HE'S SHOOTING IMMEDIATELY!

Come on!! Get in!!

BUT...! EVEN THOUGH WAKASHIMAZU WAS STILL ON THE GROUND! EVEN THOUGH HE COULDN'T SEE IZAWA SHOOT!! HE'S GETTING UP A BIT AND MANAGES TO REPELL THE BALL WITH HIS ELBOW!! A SAVE ON PURE INSTINCT!!


AND THIS IS GOING TO BE A CORNER FOR NANKATSU!! THEIR ATTACK WAS REALLY INTENSE, THEY REALLY DESERVED TO SCORE... THAT IS, IF IT WAS ANY OTHER TEAM, BUT TOHO'S OBSTINATE DEFENSE WAS ON PAR WITH NANKATSU'S ATTACK!!

Well, sorry Nankatsu... But everything worked in our favor somehow.

I've taught little Takeshi to feel field shaping. He observed you use it in every match, the feeling is
imprinted in him. He couldn't miss it. And this time, unlike the match against Furano, he made it on time To fill the gap made by his teammates.

I don't know why Kojiro went so far back... Maybe he was mistakenly lured towards Tsubasa
because of field shaping... Anyway that allowed us to defend against that dangerous shot...

Probably because of the half-time rest, Izawa isn't in the zone anymore... If he was in that state while
playing beyond his abilities, the results would have been much more efficient.

But more importantly, because of this dangerous attack, it's now Wakashimazu who entered "the zone"!!