My Goalkeeping System

After their victory against Villarreal in the Europa Conference League group stage match day two, the players were allowed to take a day off.

It could have been two days off if their victory had been more convincing.

Well, some of them used Friday to get ample rest and recover from the exhausting week while others decided to use it for a fun day out.

The day didn\'t last for long though just like every other day and the next day, they had to get back to training.

Their week this time around to prevent what happened last week from happening again and that meant that they were going to miss their Bilbeth Premier League match this season.

The same thing could be said for the other five teams who were currently in European competitions.

They had a match against Frono FC on Monday, their first match in the Bilbeth, it was a home match so there was no need to stress about anything and the best part was that the tournament followed a single-phase knockout method.

That meant that there were no second legs, any team that got defeated in any of the rounds was automatically eliminated from the tournament because there were no second legs for them to try and redeem themselves.

This worked quite well against them in the quarterfinals of the competition when they were knocked out by the same Frono FC they were about to face in a couple of days.

The match was down three goals to three and it looked like everything was about to go into extra time until Darwin Shaw came in clutch in the last minute and made it four goals to three with a clinical strike that broke the spirit of every Unique FC player and everyone that was supporting them that day.

This time around, they were down for revenge, they\'ve already beaten them at the start of the season to make up for part of what they did to them this last season but this situation was a bit different.

They had to strike Frono FC fast and break their morale and Norman was telling them how to do that piece by piece with each training session they had before the match.

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The match day came by pretty fast, Frono FC traveled to Unique City for the match which was going to kick off by 4:00 PM.

It didn\'t take long for the match to kick off and just three minutes after that, Unique FC showed Frono FC what they were capable of.

They were the ones that started the game from the kick-off spot and during those moments, they made sure to avoid the middle completely and play down both wings.

This worked quite well for them because with time, Mateo got the ball in a very good position and he didn\'t hesitate to use it in the best way he could.

With a snake bite, he quickly got past the player trying to stop him, and moved a little toward the middle with the ball before lobbing it into the box a little close to the edge.

Ferran got to the ball ahead of everyone else and with a neat header, he sent the ball flying toward the right side of the goalpost.

Emerson was glued to the spot as the ball flew past him and into the goalpost.

That was a beautiful goal from a beautiful header and Ferran didn\'t hold back his emotions as he ran toward the sidelines to celebrate.

That was the start of their \'eliminate Frono FC\' campaign and scoring the first goal meant that they had gotten a good start.

However, just seven minutes after scoring that opener, Frono FC won a penalty kick.

The penalty kick came as a result of Seth dribbling his way through the whole defense to get into the box but before he could do anything with the ball, he was brought down by Aima with a tackle which wasn\'t exactly dangerous but it was still a foul and now Frono FC had a massive chance to level the playing field.

"This is a massive chance for Frono FC to get back into the game, will Darwin be able to put it away?" Jim commented.

Darwin was standing over the ball now as the referee made sure that everyone else was behind him outside the box.

<Stay focused, Dave>

\'I know.\'

<I would have advised you to use Focus if you didn\'t have all these weird thoughts going through your mind>

\'Don\'t worry, I don\'t need it to save this.\'

<I hope so>

After making sure everything was ready, the referee blew his whistle, and now it was up to Darwin to give his team what they wanted and up to Dave to make sure that didn\'t happen.

\'There\'s the whistle, how\'s this going to pan out?\'

Darwin let out a sigh before he slowly took three steps backward.

After that, he paused for a while before he quickly closed up on the ball and fired it toward the goalpost, that ball was fired with massive shot power.

Dave was spot on on the side where he was going to place the ball but he was way off on the elevation as the ball was sent flying toward the top right-hand corner of the goalpost while he went low.

All he was able to do now was lay on the floor as the ball flew into the goalpost and hit the net.

"It\'s in! He did it, they\'re back on level terms!" Jim exclaimed

"That was a well-taken penalty kick to put Darwin off like that," Steve commented.

Darwin couldn\'t keep quiet after that goal as he screamed as loud as he can before taking off to the side to do a knee slide.

Minino was sitting on the bench and he couldn\'t keep his amusement in check.

"Come on man, it was just a penalty." He muttered as he slowly shook his head.

For some reason, he didn\'t feel bad after watching Darwin score that goal.

"Darwin hasn\'t scored against Dave since their last two meetings and he just did it again, he is still the player with the most goals against Dave which is understandable given the fact that Dave has not been allowing the ball to get past him easily since the start of the season." Steve expressed.

"Yeah, and it looks like he\'s really happy to finally score against Dave again, I wonder what will happen if he manages to score an open play goal in this match," Jim said. "But, that out of the way for now, both teams are back on level terms with just twelve minutes on the clock."

\'There goes my conjoined quest.\' Dave said subconsciously as he slowly got up from the floor.

[ Conjoined quest failed ]

<It\'s not the end of the world>

\'Yeah, it\'s not, if getting scored against means we win this match then so be it.\'

The match continued with Unique FC killing in terms of possession, gameplay, and attack.

They were running over Frono FC who were having a really hard time creating anything useful.

The only person who was making a bit of an impact was Seth their right winger but still, there wasn\'t much he could do without anybody actively supporting him plus, Roland was able to stop him during situations that really mattered.

Of course, things wouldn\'t be this bad for them if they had Ahmed in their midfield and not on the bench at that moment but Norman could also argue with the fact that he had arguably the key man in his midfield on the bench.

Minino was sitting on the bench so that Norman could start Henry who hadn\'t gotten much playing time so far this season.

Despite dominating the match in almost every way possible, Unique FC weren\'t finding it that easy to get through Frono FC\'s defense, and the chances they managed to get through ended up going to waste.

The match had just entered the forty-third minute now and Unique FC were lurking around Frono FC\'s goal area looking for a way through.

"The first half is almost over and the score is still leveled can Unique FC take the lead before the halftime break? Frono FC has just been lackluster so far."

Fred received the ball right at the edge of the box and just before the player there could get to him, he pushed it back to Ferran who immediately sent it rolling to Mateo.

Mateo pushed a little closer to the box as carefully as he could and just before two players could pounce on him he sent the ball rolling to Ferran who immediately sent it back to him as soon as he got inside the box.

"Oh, this looks promising."

There was a player right in front of him so he quickly stretched the ball further to get past him but the ball was now close enough for Emerson to rush out and grab it.

Emerson quickly rushed out to grab the ball as expected but before he could get his hand on it, Mateo stretched his leg to get the tip of his boot on it and that was all he needed to chip the ball over the goalkeeper before he was brought down inside the box.

He lay on the floor and watched the ball fly into the goalpost and as soon as it happened, he quickly sprang up from the floor.

"Oh, my goodness! What a goal! They have the lead back and it\'s their Wonder kid Mateo!" Jim screamed.

Mateo wasn\'t allowed to rest after that goal as his teammates got to him and pulled him down to the floor.

That celebration didn\'t last for long as the game had to resume immediately.

It didn\'t take long for the right midfielder to lose the ball to Roland after the restart, and as soon as the left back got his foot on the ball, he sent it flying over to Henry who immediately sent it rolling to Carlos.

Carlos raced down the middle with the ball before he quickly turned back and found Mateo near the middle.

He immediately sent the ball rolling to the winger and without giving much thought to it, Mateo fired the ball toward the goalpost with his first touch.

The ball flew toward the top right side of the goalpost and despite diving toward it, Emerson was only able to get the tip of his glove on it as it hit the post before falling into the goalpost.

You could tell by Mateo\'s expression that he wasn\'t really counting on that ball going in but as soon as it went in, he raised both of his hands.

"I can\'t believe it, they\'re two goals up with just three minutes of added time left."

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Happy new month guys.

With this month, I\'ve decided to set up a favorable mass-release goal.

For every set of gifts worth 3000 coins, I will do a three chapters mass release.

Every 100 GT= 4 chapters mass release.