Another 157: The eye of an artist

AFTER MAKING THIS MISTAKE, MISAKI IS CHASING FERRILLI, WHO'S DRIBBLING ON THEIR RIGHT SIDE... WHICH IS PROBABLY PSG'S WEAKEST SIDE!

Damn! Even though I saw him, I didn't think he'd make it so fast!

Nihihi! You fell for it!

AH, FERRILLI IS SLOWING DOWN AND MISAKI IS CATCHING UP! FERRILLI IS SURROUNDED! WAIT...


No way! Don't tell me that, at that moment...

He... Lured me towards him!

PSG YOUTH IS TRYING TO GET THE BALL FROM FERRILLI, BUT WITH HIS SKILLFULL BALL HANDLING, HE MANAGES TO DO A TRICK SIDE PASS, KICKING THE BALL WITH THE INSIDE OF THE FOOT, BEHIND HIS PIVOT LEG!


IT'S A MAGNIFICENT PASS TOWARDS THE UNMARKED LEFT FORWARD OF OL YOUTH! HE'S PICKING UP THE BALL, AND... AH, BUT...!


BUT HERE IS N'DIAYE! GOING AWAY FROM HIS POSITION, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS FAR, HIS BEAST LIKE SPEED ALLOWED HIM TO BE ON TIME TO TACKLE OL YOUTH'S FORWARD! HE'S BLOWN AWAY!


AHH, BUT WHISTLE! THE REFEREE JUDGED THAT N'DIAYE USED EXCESSIVE FORCE... HE ISN'T RECEIVING ANY CARD THOUGH, BUT IT'S A WELL PLACED FREE KICK FOR OL YOUTH!

If that forward had shot directly with a volley instead of trapping the ball...

PSG YOUTH IS PLACING THEIR WALL FOR THIS UPCOMING FREE KICK...

The pinch isn't over though... Let's get to our positions.

OL YOUTH ISN'T USING ANY KIND OF TRICK FOR THIS FREE KICK, FERRILLI IS TAKING THE SHOT DIRECTLY!


AND THIS IS... AH, AN INCREDIBLY TECHNICAL CURVE SHOT! MISAKI MADE THE WALL JUMP AT THE RIGHT MOMENT BUT... THE BALL IS STILL GOING OVER! FLYING, LIKE A PONYTAIL IN THE WIND!


PSG YOUTH'S KEEPER IS DEFEATED! AH, BUT HERE IS GERINI! WITH AN ACROBATIC MOVE, HE MANAGES TO BLOCK THIS SHOT!

That guy is so accurate it's easy to predict where he's shooting!

WITH MISAKI IN THE WALL, GERINI NEAR THE LEFT GOAL POST AND N'DIAYE ON THE RIGHT, PSG YOUTH MADE SURE IT'D BE EXTRA HARD FOR FERRILLI TO SCORE WITH HIS FREE KICK!


STILL, THE CLEARED BALL IS RECOVERED BY THE OL YOUTH! PSG YOUTH'S PLAYERS WERE GATHERED IN FRONT OF THEIR GOAL AFTER ALL...


BUT NO GOOD! IF N'DIAYE AND GERINI MANAGED TO PROTECT THE GOAL, THE MIDFIELD IS WHERE MISAKI IS PREVAILING! CUTTING ONE OF OL YOUTH'S PASS, PSG YOUTH IS BACK IN POSESSION!


Before, I wondered why Misaki was so good in the midfield... When I saw him play... I first thought...

"This guy is in the zone" because he's got that "out of body" field of vision... Which is why he can see
teammates and opponents even if they're not in front of him... "That won't last", I said... You can't always be in the zone.

But match after match... I had to admit he had it even though he wasn't in the zone... This guy got the
"artist" eye... The soccer field is his canvas, and he can see it whole, his passes like strokes of a brush, his passcuts like a painting knife!

As an "Artist of the field"... He was right to come to Paris, "City of Art", including soccer!

PSG YOUTH IS CIRCULATING THE BALL WITH MISAKI AT THEIR CORE, OL YOUTH CAN'T SEEM TO STOP THEIR ATTACK! MISAKI IS PASSING THE BALL ONCE AGAIN...


No... No way! I... I didn't see him!

AH, BUT ONCE AGAIN, PASSCUT FROM FERRILLI! MISAKI DID A MISTAKE THIS TIME!


FERRILLI IS THEN TURNING BACK TO LAUNCH THE COUNTERATTACK!!

Nihihi... You're out of luck... I'm your worst kind of opponent!!