Soccer System: Legendary Goalkeeper

Chapter 122 - The Surprise Giver

Evan gave a direct pass to the right side which at that time Witan was moving without the ball very freely.

Even so, having just received it, Witan was immediately confronted by Nagatomo and Morita who increasingly neutralized the movement of Witan.

Fortunately, Witan could immediately feed to the left side where there is already Marselino there.

After that, Marselino began to accelerate, a little to make a powerful and dangerous hoax movement.

Endo who tried to keep the depth of the central field immediately shifted to Marselino.

“Left side, there empty!” peekik Reza's.

Despite being vague, Marselino is still able to hear it and do what the team captain is directing at the moment.

Feeding the hull, Saddil deftly accepted it using a chest that directly shifted the ball forward leaving Ito a dead step.

“Good, I'll come forward!” said Reza.

Position shifted, Jordi who will be the last player for a while, his life in this game is on the occasion of attack.

Jordi will not regret if Indonesia fails to attack and instead attacked back, he will sacrifice himself, which is rewarded with a red card later.

“Do not worry, safe-safe,” said Reza who immediately went running.

Up to the edge of the midfield line, Reza circulates the view to scan areas that have a chance at stringing up attacks and creating dangerous opportunities.

Saddil himself is still trying to control the ball, he continues to be escorted by one to two Japanese players.

Feeling difficulty, Saddil rewinds the ball which was immediately well received by Reza.

The minutes of the game had touched the 23 mark, still long enough for the first half time to come.

Reza was slowly advancing, he was approached by two Japanese players, Kamada and Doan.

Maybe it will look familiar to many people, most likely, Reza will again show his qualified skills.

Kamada is not so hooked, he still faithfully waits behind Doan to provide protection.

Reza wanted to move to the right, not fooled, Doan then ambushed for the sake of touching a little bit of the ball.

To his surprise, Reza clamped the ball using both feet and jumped to avoid Doan's sweep.

The next movement, when Reza landed, he then turned the ball following the movement of his body, Doan passed by surprisingly.

Kamada who gave protection behind Doan then moved, but because of the lack of approach, he had a deadlock on the movement so Reza returned immediately to do the dummy movement.

Kamada was not so deceived, but the movement was so smooth without obstacles that Reza could pass through with the help of the continued movement of his legs.

“Yosh, indeed my legs are too flexible, this movement should be a bit difficult even though it already has Messi skills,” muttered Reza.

He continued the movement, feeding the forward-leaning Kambuaya.

Kambuaya somewhat misunderstood, he actually jumped for the sake of passing the ball to Witan who did make the movement.

“Heh! Jeez, why dodge!”

Reza almost cursed, he immediately ran back to his goal because Morita cut the bait line.

“Ah! Why am I baiting him too? Wrong decision-making, even though it has been seen in the Eyes of Wise, suddenly changed too.”

Reza accelerated very quickly, in the midst of the attacking transition from Japan which also relied on the speed of their powerful legs.

Morita did see Reza still trying to run, he immediately catapulted the ball to score from the middle of the field.

The ball bounced, Reza was still on the edge of the penalty box.

The ball was getting closer and was about to enter, Reza himself had passed Jordi who was also running.

His speed was truly terrifying, like a cheetah chasing its prey.

In a split second later, Reza threw his hand forward following the body's spinning motion as the ball came.

Successfully dispelled with great difficulty!

“Huh, almost anjir!”

I know it's his decision mistake, but I think again, Reza previously intended to give to Kambuaya, but misunderstandings happened.”

Commentators gave a response in the middle of Indonesia that re-assembled the attack from below, yes, from zero because the designed attack was a mess.

“Indeed, yes, it must be difficult too despite having trained together. The relationship between the players is sometimes interrupted,” muttered Reza.

Putting aside what had happened for a while, Reza began to string together attacks assisted by Jordi, Irianto and Asnawi.

Despite the previous mistakes, Indonesia did not think much about it.

Coach Shin could only shake his head resignedly, after all it had happened and could not do much more, the point was that he could only give directions to help Reza as well.

From Reza's agile legs, it shows again how he passed three players in a distance that is not so far apart.

First, Maeda was tricked into humiliating him.

Second, Kamada, Reza-style rainbow flick movement is re-formed and deceives Kamada who actually fell for trying to reach Reza who is three steps further from him.

Third, Doan, he was passed surprisingly using a technique that has actually been widely used by professional players.

The technique of dancing to control the ball, the next movement is a trick movement and Doan was fooled.

Minutes kept going, in the current five minutes, Indonesia dominates trying to attack.

Time was getting closer to the first half break, but Indonesia still wrestled with their attacking tactics.

Reza does not want a solo run, he wants to work with his partner, creating brilliant passes for goal-hungry attackers who are excluded due to his ability to score goals that exceed reliable attackers in the team.

Until exactly a minute before the first half ended, from the feet of Reza who is currently standing in the middle of the field, immediately catapulted the ball right into the heart of the Japanese defense.

In a split second, the Japanese defense was caught off guard, Sananta could move freely which immediately got the ball behind the defensive line.

Sananta only have to gouge the ball above the Japanese goalkeeper, Gonda, whose term is out of actual position.

Gonda was unable to reach the hanging ball, Sananta also produced a goal from Reza's best pass.

“Goooll!”

Sananta pointed at Reza, the players celebrated, Reza himself just exclaimed as he jumped around cheerfully.

He returned to the position, waiting for the match to resume.

However, after Japan kicked the kick-off ball, the referee then blew the whistle sign of the end of the first half.

***

“You almost made a disaster,” said Coach Shin who was directly translated from Korean to Indonesian by his reliable translator.

“Ya, sorry, deh. My decision was also a misunderstanding Bang Kambuaya almost made a blunder,” explained Reza who was responded to a nod by Kambuaya.

“Other times understand the movement of your colleague first,” replied Coach Shin.

‘Yaa .. Originally while using Wise Eyes, Bang Kambuaya did not let the ball, but suddenly the future of those few seconds changed. Maybe because the decision could have changed a fraction of a second later,’ thought Reza.

***

The second half began, three players were immediately replaced by Coach Shin, including Saddil replaced Egy, then Evan replaced Abhimanyu and Kambuaya replaced Rafli.

Tactics also changed, Indonesia surprisingly seemed to be the team that defended in order to maintain the score so far.

Unusually, Coach Shin seemed cautious for now.

Apart from all that, Indonesia also proved able to achieve victory despite continued to be battered all-out.

Fortunately, Reza is still in top shape, even beyond this prime time, more so than the golden age and glory at this early age.

Indoesia, advanced to the quarter-finals of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup after beating Japan 1-0 for the first time and continued the historical record that initially Indonesia qualified for the last sixteen for the first time.

Indonesia recorded a new history, after 13 years of not qualifying for the Asian Cup, when they entered again, they immediately made a surprise to become a black horse team.

Indonesia has been a surprise-making team at the Asian Cup in the last two decades, since several other teams have also given a surprise.

However, Indonesia is the most trending today.