My Goalkeeping System

"Mateo shoots! Mateo scores!"

The winger offloaded a shot toward the bottom right side of the post where the keeper couldn't deal, he dived toward the ball but he couldn't get his hand to it on time as the ball rolled into the back of the net.

"Unbelievable!" Jim exclaimed as the winger took off to the sidelines and was pulled down by Merino on the way before his teammates began to fall on his body.

"Unique FC's magic man has done it again, that's magisterial!"

The fans were screaming and clapping in joy even some of the opposing fans were clapping after witnessing that goal from Mateo Smith.

"Mateo! Mateo! Mateo!"

That was what the fans were chanting.

"They've finally gotten that equalizer and still have enough time to push for a winner all thanks to their boy wonder," Steve said.

"Yes!" Mateo yelled after getting up from the floor, then he turned and waved to the fans before making his way back to their side of the pitch so that the match could continue.

"It's been less than three minutes since he entered the pitch and he put up a nice effort to get the equalizer, that's how big of an impact Mateo Smith can be for Unique FC whenever he is on the pitch," Jim said. "That's his twenty-fourth goal of the season."

The clock was showing seventy-eight minutes now as Darwin stood over the kick-off spot waiting for the referee's whistle.

"Yes," Dave muttered under his breath. "We just need to go for the winner now."

<I told you it was going to happen soon>

'Yeah, that's karma for unjustifiably denying us that penalty kick.'

[ Quest 2 ]

[ Progress ]

[ One touch saves: ¼ ]

<You still have to make three more one-touch saves to complete the quest and I don't see that happening>

'As long as we get the win, I don't care.'

The referee blew his whistle as Darwin quickly passed the ball to the player closest to him.

"The game has resumed, this battle of a game both sides are on leveled terms now, let's see which side can get the win before the final whistle.

Frono FC didn't try to attempt one of their instantaneous attacks and decided to take a different approach to attack one that Unique FC always used, passing the ball around and drawing out the players to create spaces for them to initiate their attacks.

Seth received the ball on the right side of midfield and quickly got past Edward with a neat body feint before passing it to their attacking midfielder who didn't have exactly any idea of what to do with it and quickly passed it back to Seth before Ferran could get to him.

"Gives it back to Seth."

Seth found Darwin making a run into the box and attempted to cross the ball to him but he seemed to have overhit it as the ball flew straight toward Dave's goalpost and the goalkeeper didn't have any problem jumping up and catching it.

"Oh, he overhit it," Jim said.

"Over here, Dave!" Norman screamed from the right side of the defense area as Dave quickly rolled the ball to him and he didn't waste time in crossing it over to Mateo who was running down the left wing.

The right-back was quickly rushing toward Mateo at the same time the ball was heading toward him but the young winger wasn't afraid as he waited for the ball to get within the range of his right foot before he lobbed it over the defender and quickly ran past him to trap it under his feet at the other end.

"Waoooh! That is exquisite from Mateo Smith!" Jim exclaimed.

Of course, the crowd would go wild after witnessing something like that especially when it was coming from Mateo Smith.

"He's through here," Steve said.

Yeah, he was through but there were still two defenders who were going to get in his way very soon so he needed to do something to offload them.

Fredinho was running into the box at the same time so he passed the ball to him.

Fredinho understood what he was trying to do and quickly passed the ball into the box in the exact spot he wanted it.

The winger raced toward the ball as the goalkeeper raced toward him, there was no doubt who was going to get to the ball first as he got to the ball and sent it flying into the goalpost right through the goalkeeper's legs.

"Goal!!!!!!" Jim exclaimed as a smile appeared on the winger's face before the winger pointed upward with both of his index fingers before his teammates began to gather around him.

"Frono FC players cannot believe it, they are behind again!"

"Yes! Yes! Yes!" Dave exclaimed before jumping up to hit the top crossbar with both of his palms.

"It's unbelievable, Mateo Smith with a brace in less than five minutes," Steve said.

You could tell by the tone of his voice that he was quite stunned.

Emerson, Frono FC's goalkeeper was really frustrated as he picked up the ball and kicked it into the pitch.

"The tides have turned once again, it is Frono FC two, Unique FC three."

The clock was showing eighty-five minutes now as Frono FC were yet to get any good chance to get an equalizer.

"Just five minutes left of normal time and the hosts are still behind, if Unique FC manages to keep them at bay for the rest of the match it will mean that they have broken their unbeaten run against them," Jim said.

The left winger who had the name Axiel written on the back of his jersey with the number eleven written below it received the ball from Ahmed and feinghed shooting at Aima before passing the ball to Darwin who tried to find a way through the middle before passing the ball to Seth on the right wing.

"Seth," Jim said. "And he's got Roland on him.

Seth tried to confuse Roland with his very fast leg overs but Roland seemed to be keeping up so he stretched the ball toward the sideline area and controlled it to stop it from rolling past the line but before he could do anything else, he was brought down by the left back.

The referee didn't hesitate to blow his whistle for a foul but no card was shown to Roland because the challenge wasn't worth a card.

"That's a foul."

Unique FC's four-man wall was quickly set up as Seth stood over the ball.

"Can Frono FC conjure up something from this one?" Jim said before the referee blew his whistle.

Seth let out a deep sigh before he closed up on the ball before he quickly closed up on the ball and quickly floated it over the wall and into the eighteen-yard box.

Darwin rose high above every other player to meet the ball with a header.

"Darwin!"

The ball was sent toward the top left-hand corner and luckily for Dave, he managed to be a little closer to the area.

[ Ball magnet activated ]

He quickly dived toward the ball and with both of his hands, he was able to catch the ball before it fell into the goalpost.

"Ball magnet Dave comes to the rescue!" Jim exclaimed as the goalkeeper crashed to the floor with the ball in his gloves.

Darwin had a shocked expression on his face as he stared at the angle he had sent the ball for a while before turning his gaze to Dave who was still on the floor.

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