Back Of The Net

Epilogue

AN: I have something that needs to be asked at the end of this chapter, so please give me input with this. 

Imagine the USA game was played in September 2022 before the football season began! 

It was the 100th cap for me tonight, and we all knew it would be a rough game, it was against the USA, the current world champions. But we are the European champions, so who knew what would happen with all of this. 

And we were back where this summer we already had great success, and I was ready to beat the World Champions. 

But now with our first international break since the return of Women's Football after the Euro's this summer which was ever growing I had my own things happen over the summer. 

Viv wasn't here, but my dad was at pitch side ready to give me my 100th cap shirt, as he was meant to be up in the pundit's area for half time but he wanted to give me my shirt before the match had officially started. 

And we had Ellen and Jill commemorated before the match started for this summer's activities. And their retirement. 

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Standing with all of the girls, i got ready to go out against the USA, with their staring 11 adjacent to us all. It was definitely making me sweat more than I would like, but hey, that's just life, and I had to get over it with the sweltering sun beaming down on us.

 After we had almost the identical team to the one we used at the Euro's we had a good chance of beating them, we only had two swap outs with Jill Scott and Ellen White. I mean only Rachel truly knew how to play against them. 

I stood at the very back of the line, taking a couple of deep breaths before I followed the girls on our walk out in front of everyone, the young girl walking beside me, wearing the jacket I was offered to have but I was too warm to even think about putting that on. 

And I knew this game would be a big one. The World Champions against the European Champions, we hadn't faced each other since the World Cup in 2019. Which definitely made things weird as we didn't really play with any of the American Team in the WSL.

So we didn't know them as well, and we rarely played each other, already making things difficult.

But you could never tell in Football how the match would work out until the second the ball started it's movement around the pitch. 

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It had gotten to the 78th minute of the game. And I was overjoyed, I was happy as anything right now, we were two one up, and we weren't letting the losses of Jill and Ellen from the team affect us right now with their retirements.

I took control of the ball from Crystal Dunn before passing off to Bethy Mead quickly as I made my way forward, with only the final line of defenders ahead of us two. And we were carving open their defence, as we played about with the girls.

And I made my way forward even faster knowing I would be onside the second that Beth released the ball. And I raced past the final defenders so I was only faced with Cook who was a meter or two behind me.

And then there was Naeher who was left in front of me, and I just clipped the ball, knowing she would expect me to follow in Tooney's shot from the Euro's final, especially as it was a classic shot to take.

But I didn't and as the woman jumped to grab the ball which wasn't there, I kicked the ball under her feet.

And I ran around behind her picking up the ball slotting it into the top right hand corner of the net.

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I ran forward away from Dunn again, trying to make my way, away from her, moving to try and clip the ball back to Beth. 

But doing that I felt myself get clipped before I felt my knee buckle under me, but it wasn't like the last time I had an injury of some sort. 

I felt it deeper in my knee while it popped feeling funky immediately. I tried to pull myself up and weight bear on it before I buckled onto Beth Mead and Crystal Dunn. 

I sat myself onto the pitch as Beth and Crystal immediately got the medics to come towards us. 

"Stay still lie on your back." Crystal told me  as I moved myself about slightly, trying to weight bear even as the pain became unbearable.

We watched as the medics arrived over to us finally. 

"We don't fully know what she's done to it, she's just in a lot of pain, she can't weight bear." Beth told the medics as I could barely hear her over the thumping of my heart in my ears. It was like she was thinking what kind of injury it was, like I was thinking. Three letters. 

I felt Lucy's hand on my shoulder as she rubbed slow circles over the material of my shirt, and I was getting overwhelmed as the tears collected in my eyes. 

"Get her to take this....." I heard one of the medics tell Lucy as she was behind me, my back resting on her leg. 

"Love, you need to breathe with this, it's gonna help with the pain, you love watching people on these....." I heard Lucy tell me clearly for once as I started breathing with the green whistle in my mouth. 

Lucy kissed my forehead as all of the girls surrounded me, kneeling by me. All of the US players having gone over to do their own thing, buteveryone was with me, even Mary who crossed the field to come and help me out. 

"Yeah keep breathing that stuff in!" Leah told me as she smiled, knowing it would hopefully help me. It kinda did but I didn't need to laugh right now. But it helped me forget about some of the pain in my knee. 

I just sat there as I couldn't keep my thoughts straight as my mind wandered to anything and everything. 

"Where are you going?" Mary asked me as she watched me, and I wads trying to move myself away from the group of players. 

"To either get ice cream or commit a felony, I'll decide in the car." I told the girls already high on the stuff in the green whistle. 

"Bloody hell, we can't tell anyone!" Rachel started to cackle as she said this. 

"Yeah, I don't want to get a call from the po po." I told the girls as I shook my head. Hearing the girls cackle at my words. 

"Right let's get you to a hospital now." I heard one of the medics come over as I was still breathing in the green whistle, and I saw the stretcher be brought on with multiple other people by it's side as I couldn't weight bear. 

I just felt myself get lifted up as they got me off the pitch, and moved me, so I would go to the hospital. 

Just waiting for some scans to be done, ready for the announcement of what I had done. Whether it just be my knee, or my ACL or my MCL or something else. I just had to pray it wasn't any of the above. 

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AN: Would you like to see a SEQUEL for this book, I had this idea and I thought I could make a sequel for this book. 

But also...... for a new WOSO/ Love Island book I wanna write but please help me with these two questions.

Question 1: Who should be the face claim for the OC?

* Simone Ashley~ Actress

* Cora Jade/ Brianna Coda~ WWE Wrestler

* Bona (WJSN)~ Kpop Idol

Question 2: Who should be the love interest for the OC?

* Lucy Bronze

* Mapi Leon