A/N: I know Deyna left Manchester City but in this she didn't cause it's too much work to change it
"You have to take it." I heard, though it all seems a hundred miles away, nothing quite reaching my brain.
You may ask how I got here. Well lets rewind a bit.
I guess you could stay it started this morning, I woke up to Deyna deciding to jump on me over and over to get me up. I was ready to stay in bed today and let someone else play for me to be honest.
I was very much ready to crawl up under the covers and never see the light of day again. This is my first Champions league final and I'm most likely in the starting lineups, I always am barring injury.
That means my first champions league I may play 90 minutes and that I would be starting. Don't get me wrong we've been training tirelessly for this but that doesn't make this any better.
I sat with Deyna all day, I wouldn't leave her or rather couldn't, I think she's the one person thats been keeping me calm all day.
The match is starting in around 2 hours so we've begun our half an hour journey to the stadium. Some people might think thats early or late but we know that it's the perfect amount of time to sort out our kit and everything else and then do warmups and have a final team meeting.
Durung our warmups we was serious but we all still talked obviously trying to get our minds of the tough match ahead, even If just for a minute.
Deyna was a sub for the match today and I was starting as Hemp was out with injury.
Once the whistle went Barcelona began playing with the ball. I think that might be why we're so nervous, Lucy Bronze, Keira Walsh, Alexia Putellas, Ona Battle, Astana Bonmati, and Alexia Putellas all in the starting lineup. It's a scary combination.
They got off to a rather quick start, scoring one in twenty minutes to which we had a new fire build inside of us in a way. I got the ball around the half way line, all my teammates behind me including Bunny and I was tired of playing it safe so I decided to go for it.
I somehow managed to get past most of them and to just outside the box, passing to Kelly who was on the wing the ball was crossed back in to the danger zone which I managed to get my head to causing the back of the net to move and the ball roll out of the back of it.
It was extremely back and forth the entire first half, or the rest of it and we all went in not happy with our performance but not disappointed as we're not out of it just yet. This doesn't mean Gareth was any happier with us. He spent practically the entire time going over what we done wrong and then finished telling De to warm up.
Gareth decided to let me go out with her, no matter what he does care about our team and when someone warms up at half time anyone can join if he finished his speech.
The second half began five minutes after Deyna's warmup and she made her appearance.
Alexia had the ball and decided to shoot but I managed to boot it off the line before the whole ball was behind it, keeping us tied in the stalemate and a throw in to Barça a little further up.
It was like this for about another twenty minutes, Barcelona obviously having the ball a lot more than us but thanks to Ellie, being the amazing goalkeeper she is, kept them all out of the goal.
Eventually we made our break through and I ran with the ball doing little passes to Deyna and larger ones to Chloe. Eventually the ball ended up with me and I done a small back heel for it to land at De's feet which she hit with all her power and the game was now in our favour.
We've got about five minutes left of the match now but Barca are in our danger zone as we like to call it. Lucy crossed it in and Aitana volleyed it past as Ellies fingers desperately tried to keep it out.
Ellie fell to the floor and put her head in. her hands, gut she couldn't keep it out.
"Look Ellie, you done good yeah... we'd be loosing without you right now so keep it up." I said having to pause from being out of breath.
Soon enough extra time came and went and it was said we would move onto penalties.
"Look we need people to take pens." Gareth began, "Chloe your go first, Jess your second, Deyna third, Jill can go fourth and Laura your fifth."
"We need someone to go sixth if it comes to it though." Chloe began but was cut off by Gareth.
"Who will go sixth? Actually scrap that, (Y/n) your go."
"I can't. I wont. I'm awful at penalties."
"You're saying that to get out of them." Deyna helpfully said, not backing my case whatsoever. "You have to take it." She finished.
"Fine..." I sighed.
Alexia took her penalty first which went past Ellie, Chloe then got hers past Sandra. The same happened with Jess and Deyna. Its 3-3. Then Aitana took her penalty but it was saved by Ellie and Jill scored. Caroline GH then took hers which went in but Laura scored.
Then Asisat took theirs but it went just over the crossbar.
"(Y/n/n) if you score this we win love. Just pick a place and shoot okay." Deyna said whispering in my ear before I walked up to the spot.
I took three steps back and one to the right. I chose my spot while maintaining eye contact with Sandra before I ran and shot the ball into top left corner, which barely scraped Sandras hand.
Everyone ran over to me and jumped on me, Deyna somehow managing to get to me first.
"You did it (Y/n/n), you did it." She said crying into my shoulder.
"We did it De, not me."
