AND THE MATCH IS RESUMING WITH SAO PAULO'S KICK-OFF! ONCE AGAIN SAO PAULO IS AVOIDING THE CENTER, WHERE SANTANA IS, LIKE THE PLAGUE... BUT OF COURSE THAT IS MAKING THEIR MEANS OF ATTACK PREDICTABLE AND IS MAKING IT ALL THE MORE EASY FOR FLAMENGO TO DEFEND, THANKS TO THE DIRECTIVES OF ALBERTO!
AND SO, AS EXPECTED, AFTER A FEW MINUTES WITHOUT FINDING ANY OPENING... SAO PAULO IS FINALLY ENTRUSTING THE BALL TO TSUBASA IN THE CENTER... AND OF COURSE, SANTANA IS GOING TO CONFRONT HIM!
AND TSUBASA IS ALSO USING HIS FAVORED FEINT, THIS IS A "DIVINE WIND" HEEL LIFT!! THE ONE THAT EVEN NASCIMIENTO COULD NOT STOP EVEN WITH A FOUL!
AH, BUT SANTANA IS REALLY A SOCCER CYBORG, WITH HIS MACHINE-LIKE REACTION, HE REACTED TO TSUBASA'S "DIVINE WIND" HEEL LIFT AND IS GOING TO INTERCEPT THE BALL IN THE AIR...!! BUT... BUT TSUBASA JUMPED TOO! HE'S GOING TO COUNTER SANTANA'S OVERHEAD DEFENSE WITH AN OVERHEAD OF HIS OWN... AND HE JUMPED HIGHER ON PURPOSE TO HAVE THE UPPER HAND!
AND DESPITE THIS... SANTANA, THANKS TO THE POWER IN HIS LEGS, PUSHED TSUBASA BACK AND BLEW HIM AWAY!
BUT RADUNGA WAS HERE AS BACKUP!! WITHOUT FEAR, AND EVEN THOUGH HIS HEAD MIGHT BE HIT BY SPIKES, HE'S LOWERING THE BALL WITH A HEADER!
SAO PAULO'S MIDFIELDER BEBETO IS GOING TO PICK UP THE BALL.... AHHH, NO, ALBERTO FORESAW THESE EVENTS, OVERLAPPED AND IS THE FIRST ONE ON THE BALL WITH A SLIDING TACKLE!!
WHILE TSUBASA IS STILL LYING ON THE GROUND, SANTANA QUIKLY RUSHED TO THE FRONT OF SAO PAULO'S GOAL! HE'S TOO FAST FOR RADUNGA, BUT WHILE THE LATTER CAN'T MARK HIM, HE'S STILL COVERING THE PASS COURSE BETWEEN HIM AND ALBERTO!
AH, BUT ALBERTO ISN'T PASSING TO SANTANA! WITH MOST OF THE DEFENSE LURED AWAY BY THE SOCCER CYBORG, ALBERTO IS PUSHING THE BALL AHEAD, THEN IS RUSHING TOWARDS IT FOR A RUNNING SHOT!
WITH ALL THE POWER OF HIS LEG AND HIS RUN, AND JUST A SLIGHT TECHNICAL CURVE AIMING FOR THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF THE GOAL, THIS IS ALBERTO'S POWER CURVE! AND...
... AND IT'S IN! SAO PAULO'S KEEPER BAMORA EXTENDED HIS ARM AS MUCH AS HE COULD, BUT EVEN HIS "BIG HAND" WASN'T ENOUGH TO REACH THE BALL!
FLAMENGO SEEMS.... SO STRONG! THEY'RE LEADING 3-1 ALREADY! ALBERTO WAS UNDOUBTEDLY THE KEY MAN HERE, HE LED THE DEFENSE WELL, FORESAW THE ACTIONS OF HIS OPPONENTS AND TEAMMATES ALIKE, ALLOWING HIM TO BOLDLY OVERLAP AND SCORE!