Cote: Not this time

Chapter 10

Author's note: Sorry if you find a spelling mistake

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It was a surprise when they told us that we were going to play them an eleven-against-eleven game. As we were not enough people to complete the 22 people. The senpais had to unite. They mixed us into different teams to make it fair.

Fortunately on my team, to whom they had given us a blue shirt. There were Yōsuke, Shibata, and Ishikawa-senpai. As he was the captain of the soccer team it meant that he was the best person in this club. The captain was telling us the form in which we will be playing which was a 1-4-3-3.

It was a formation that had its advantages and disadvantages. For example, our formation was more focused on offense than defense. It also meant that our core game was much stronger. This can also be an inconvenience because if they cross our midfield. Our defense would be more vulnerable due to the spaces between the lines that are left in the field.

The opposing team, which had a red shirt on. They had a 2-4-4 formation. It was a basic soccer formation which has offensive or defensive characteristics. It was a much stronger formation on defense than our formation, but our offense was much stronger than the opposing team's formation.

The wing midfielders were quite important in this formation. Because if they did not join the attack, there is numerical inferiority in the attack. Therefore, it would facilitate our defense.

I was located as a right central forward in our formation. Shibata was positioned to my right in the right winger's position. Yōsuke was a left-back midfielder. Ishikawa-senpai was positioned to my left in the left-center forward position.

The one that would begin to serve the ball at the beginning of the game was the rival team. The referee for our match blew the whistle to mark the start of the match. In the first minutes of the game nothing interesting happened, we were carrying the ball from one place to another. Our offense was pretty good, but the opposing team's defense countered us.

At minute 14:45 one of the first plays was made. Shibata had passed the ball to me due to the strong defense they were marking him. The opposing team had noticed that Shibata was quite fast as he ran and was good at playing soccer.

When the ball was brought to my feet. I could see how a student from the rival team was about to defend and take the ball from me. I dribbled, pretending I was going to go in the left direction when I actually went to the right. I easily fooled the student and started running to the side of the court, Due to the defense of the opposing team, there were 2 central defenders and 2 central midfielders. TThe left-back midfielder and left-back tried to stop me, but I dodged them nimbly. When I was in the right side corner of the court. I could see that several of my teammates were in the goal. I had calculated the distance and the force with which I have to hit the ball to reach them, and then send the pass to the center of the penalty area of ​​the opposing team.

Ishikawa-senpai headed the ball to score a goal for our team.

The guys on my team celebrated the goal we had scored. Instead, I just nodded in satisfaction.

"Nice pitch, Ayanokōji-Kohai"

Ishikawa-senpai congratulated me when we were returning to our positions.

"Ayanokōji-Kun, you were really fast" Shibata also started to praise me "The plays you made were incredible, but I won't be left behind" Shibata pointed at me as he returned to his position.

We position ourselves waiting for the rival team to get the ball out again. When the referee gave the signal for the game to resume. In the game, we tried to put pressure on our rival team, but the defense of the senpais with some of the first years was actually quite good. I couldn't touch the ball due to the strong marking that the rival team was giving me. I can be quite good at soccer, but this sport needed team cooperation to win.