Soccer System: Legendary Goalkeeper

Chapter 76 - Spartak Trnava (1)

Back to doing the day as usual, Reza also occasionally train his knuckle shoot amid busy school and also training with his teammates.

Reza has started to score a few goals from dozens of experiments. Unfortunately the goals have not formed the identity of the knuckle shoot itself. The effects of drifting left and right have not been clearly seen and are still easily guessed by Kukucka and Vozinha.

While the swooping arch kick that he usually did was even harder to reach by them. However, some kicks of this type are also not uncommon to be successfully pushed aside.

Reza is currently with his teammates doing physical strengthening exercises. They do it so hard, the sweat grains do not make them tremble, fatigue is also their drink.

“Come! Do!” coach Marian Zimen exclaimed, he directed the players.

The twenty-first will begin soon. That's exactly two days from now, this game will start Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 21:00.

Obviously Coach Marian Zimen doesn't want his foster kids to lose. Spartak Trnava is one of the strongest teams in the league. Therefore Coach Marian wants his foster children to practice as facet as possible and understand all kinds of tactics that he gives.

Reza also continues to train his kicks. He already felt that soon his knuckle shoot style would appear. Coach Marian Zimen also just let it go, she wants to see Reza bring surprises again and again.

After training together until the evening, all the players were gathered together and given direction by the coaches so that they keep the body from unhealthy food and make performance decrease.

Another direction is about the tactics they have assembled should be understood as best as possible.

All of them went home one by one, some other players were also still on the training field and trained with their skills that were felt to be lacking. Reza is still training his knuckle shoot free-kick assisted by goalkeeper Kukucka.

“Come, Reza!” kukucka with Slovak.

Reza also did a position that he had increasingly understood. Moving from time to time is getting better. Reza tried to throw the ball towards Kukucka.

Approaching the wicket, suddenly a strange movement occurred. The direction of the ball is to go to the left side of Kukucka, the, but suddenly the ball was similar to wobbling left and right which then dropped to the right side of Kukucka who had died step and instead wanted to catch the ball to his left.

The ball is almost without a spin, resembling a drift, moving to the right and left which makes Kukucka a dead step.

“Wah! The kick!”

Coach Marian Zimen came to Reza.he began to be more curious about the kick that was being trained Reza.

“Yes, Coach. knuckle shoot!”

Kukucka who died this step approached Reza about to ask what kind of kick it was that made him misresponsive.

Reza could only smile happily. This is his best shot knuckle kick for now. He's actually still not satisfied, the ball's movement is still not as it seems on many recordings.

***

The twenty-first week of the league is currently going on fiercely. US Trencin continues to be suppressed by Spartak Trnava, but US Trencin is still so solid to keep the defense. Despite several leaks, there is still a tough Reza under the crossbar.

This game has been going on for 20 minutes. Total Spartak Trnava has shot on target as many as 6 times and none of them make the score because Reza is quite tough.

US Trencin also tried to play open. They started slowly but surely devising an attack scheme relying on the flank for now. The Witan who played from the start was also taken down and is currently struggling with the ball at his feet, trying to break through the heavily guarded flank.

Every now and then he ran and stopped and then made a trick move. However, because it was still more solid defense, Witan finally gave the ball back to back.

When they attacked, Kozlovsky immediately approached who was controlling the ball. He tried to reach for the ball with a physical confrontation, it worked.

Kozlovsky then tried to lower the intensity, he held the ball in the back line, playing the ball with Reza and three other defenders; Pires, Stojsavljevic and Micuda.

They hold the ball to string together the attack scheme, do not want to rush and experience fatal errors later.

Reza got the ball from Pires, he started slowly advancing to the front of the box. Seeing the good movement of the Witan on the right flank, Reza accurately floated the ball far away.

Excellent vision from Reza. The ball immediately pierced the heart of the right side defense. There Witan get the ball area, trying to control it was quite successful, although somewhat had lost balance.

Witan succeeded, he punched into the penalty box while escorted by Spartak Trnava player, Bolaji.

The defense is quite solid, Bolaji tried to have a physical confrontation relying on his good body to fight the Witan which is a bit slim.

“It's hard!” witan's Mumm.

While trying to stab into the penalty box, he painstakingly had a physical confrontation against Bolaji. Until Witan got past Bolaji and did a brilliant pull-off.

The ball was about to be tap-in by Emeka. However, this pull bait was still too fast and passed it to the other side. On the left side of the attack, there was already Soares who got a chance to kick.

Soares kicked hard, but Spartak goalkeeper Trnava, Takac still managed to pull him off well. The ball is successfully driven and a corner is done.

However, the corner attack did not make a chance for US Trencin.

After the attack, Spartak Trnava tried to attack again, but did not produce a big opportunity as well. It is clear, both teams have a defense that is equally solid.

Although the two teams continue to attack each other, the defense is also still well-strung and properly form the cooperation of the defenders.

Occasionally Spartak Trnava tried to kick from outside the penalty box, the kicker among others Taiwo and some other players. The kick was quite accurate, but Reza was still at his best.

When in the minute 45+1, the foul occurred right in front of the Spartak Trnava penalty box. It happened when Emeka tried to break through, the defenders looked quite negligent to make Emeka move freely. Until centre-back Spartak Trnava, Stetina committed a foul.

It is about 24 meters from the goal line. Reza tried to kick him, doing the moves he had trained. Reza hopes her knuckle shoot this time can bring her luck.

Reza took the kick. The ball was seen hovering over the player's fence, but unfortunately the ball even bounced about two meters above the crossbar which made the opportunity quite wasted.

“Wah ... I will try again, it looks like the movement was a bit wrong earlier,” Reza told his teammate in English.

His teammates just agree. They did want to see that kind of fictional kick, so had to go through a long process as well.

“Reza .. I hope in the second half when there is a foul, you can score using the kick that you keep training. I know you'll keep trying,” muttered Coach Marian Zimen.

The first half ended when Reza threw the ball over the crossbar.

Reza walked while thinking hard. His face looked solemn, his hands twitching trying to make a follow-up move from the knuckle shoot.

Both teams entered their dressing rooms. AS Trencin himself entered the visitors' dressing room and rested there while awaiting direction from Coach Marian Zimen.