Chapter 60 Little Grudge *O*

After struggling in the last game going to penalties for the 1st in the cup and in two years in a row, the team was focusing on regularizing their bodies and resting for the next game where they would face Chievo Verona.

Usman are you ok? (Conti)

Yes I am, I'm just tired it's the first time I've played in a game where I'm on the pitch for more than 90 minutes when normally I don't even last the full 90 minutes in a league game. (Usman)

I understand well observed it's your first time spending more than 90 minutes on the field last year you had entered the 2nd half and lasted until the penalties not only you never took penalties in play but you were responsible for taking the first one, really good that you weren't shaken by it. (Cossu)

Well, that simply couldn't happen or I thought about it when Touluose simply blamed me for not being able to score for the team when I was the team's only striker, even though I managed to dribble, position myself to receive passes, I felt that I didn't have adapted to their style of play, because I simply always managed to stay in front of the goal with his passes or even driving the ball and dribbling the players of the opposing team and using my speed and agility, but in return my finishing was terrible and had no no person next to me in case I wanted to play I was stuck alone in the attack instead of being the front of the team.

I understand very well that you decided to come here if I don't doubt that I could score as many goals as you did here. (Desena)

Yeah I realized that too , but you can not think that way when I simply have a partner to share the weight in attack and I have a maestro in the team who gives me wonderful opportunities with my training I improved my technique and accuracy in kicking and now I have , more coldness in front of the goalkeeper so I can position myself better in front of him.

Well, let's go, the game will start, as far as I know, today our team has a defined line-up;

GK Avmarov 25

CB Ariaudo 3 Astori 13 RB Agostini 31 LB Pisano 14

DMF Conti 5 © CMF Dessena 21 Nainggolan 4 AMF Cepellini 32

CF Nenê 18 Usman 10

and the banks

GK Ruzittu 12 CB Rossettini 15 SB Camilleri 2 CMF e Eriksson 16 AMF Cossu 7 CF Sau 27

CF Nenê 18

The Chievo team came with

GK Sorrentino

CB Cesar and Dainelli RB S.Morero LB Jokic

DMF L.Rigoni CMF Bentivoglio e Cruzado 16 AMF M.Rigoni

CF Di Michele and Pellissie

The game started with Di Michele and Pelissier touching to Rigoni, Rigoni dominates the ball and drives it dribbling Usman who comes towards him to steal it, after dribbling him he touches the ball to Di Michele who retreats to L Rigoni, L Rigoni she pulls back on Dainelli who touches the left side on Jokic.

Jokic receives the pass and continues driving the ball down the left side until close to the bottom line where he crosses into the area , the ball is taken from inside the area with a header by Conti , the ball goes towards L.Rigoni who chases it to dominate it, he manages to dominate the ball and ends up almost losing it, because in the meantime that he dominates it Dessena appeared to mark him, at this moment he touches to the left side in Jokic who receives the pass dominates the ball and pulls again close to the bottom line waiting for L.Rigoni to pass he makes a low pass inside in a position that if L.Rigoni was faster he would dominate the ball.

But as L.Rigoni takes time to understand the move, Agostini manages to reach the ball first and kicks it to the side.

The lateral is kicked by Jokic to Pellissier who dominates the ball crosses into the area, but his cross comes out so badly that it goes straight into the goalkeeper's hand, Avmarov kicks the ball forward and Nenê disputes it in the air with L.Rigoni, the ball hits Nenê goes to the ground, but on the ground L.Rigoni is faster to move and catch the ball, Rigoni touches the ball to M.Rigoni , M.Rigoni dominates the ball and tries to dribble Conti, but Conti wins in the runs and touches the ball sending it to the side of Dessena, but the ball that Conti hit to steal it comes out very strong Dessena can't dominate it so she hits him and goes towards Cepellini who dominates the ball observes Nenê who is alone behind of the guy who is guarding him and makes the pass to him.

Nenê dominates the ball turns and sees that there was only Usman and a defender who was returning to the goalkeeper's area pulling the offside line, he makes the pass to Usman who is alone with 1 defender and the goalkeeper, Usman leads the ball past the defender and enters the area where the goalkeeper leaves the goal to reduce the space he has where he kicks, Usman finishes the ball in the goal, but the goalkeeper reacts faster and manages to hit the ball with his leg sending the ball to the corner .

The corner kick is taken with a cross into the area where the ball passes close to Usman with him unable to head it for not having jumped high enough and stops at Cesar's head who heads it outside the area where Bentiglovio chases it and succeeds dominates it, touching it to Jokic who touches the ball back to Moreno, Moreno touches the ball to Cesar, Cesar who received the pass, takes it forward and touches Bentiglovio who tries to pass it to L.Rigoni.

Rigoni even manages to dominate the ball what he didn't expect is that Cepellini would come behind him scaring him and making him lose possession of the ball luckily for him the ball that was touched by Cepellini stops at the foot of Bentiglovio touches the ball in M.Rigoni , M.Rigoni manages to dominate the ball but he doesn't lose caution because the one who was marking him was Conti who simply marks him hard to the point that M.Rigoni has to pretend to go to the side and to the other to feint him, until he manages to dribble Conti and keep driving the ball, but after he passes Conti, Dessena appears who had changed position with Conti being further back from his original position and easily manages to take the ball from his foot.

Dessena takes the ball and drives it towards his own court and touches it to Astori, Astori receives the pass and passes the ball to Agostini, Agostini also dominates the ball looks forward while slowly driving it and touches Dessena who is approximately to the On his side, Dessena receives the ball and doesn't hold it for a long time, passing it to Usman, Usman receives the pass, dribbles L.Rigoni and continues driving towards the Chievo goal where he is marked by Bentivoglio and realizes that it is better to touch the ball then he touches Nainggolan who is next to him on his left side and runs along with him.

Nainggolan receives the ball and continues driving until Bentiglovio who was marking Usman reaches him and hits himself with when Nainggolan manages to pass him he loses the ball, but luckily for the team or Nainggolan and Usman the ball goes towards Usman who continues running on the right side of Nainggolan, Usman dominates the ball pulls it to the right as he enters the area he manages to destabilize the defenders and open the barrier that was made against him and infiltrates inside the area where he manages to kick the ball with his right leg in the left corner of the goal, the ball slowly goes to the corner of the goal, passing the goalkeeper who jumps to catch it and enters the goal.

Goool!!!!! It's his Usman in the 29th minute of the 1st half he scores for Cagliari increasing the game's score to Chievo Verona 0 x 1 Cagliari the whole team follows him and hugs him to celebrate the goal after hugging they don't take long to return to their field to follow the game.

The game restarts with Di Michele touching the ball to Pellissier who back-heels the ball to M. Rigoni, M. Rigoni drives the ball close to the center and passes it to L. Rigoni, L. Rigoni receives the pass and does not hold the ball touching it on the right-back Morero who simply drives the ball from his field to close to Cagliari's bottom line and crosses into the area.

The crossed ball is headed by Agostini outside the area and the one who receives the ball outside the area is Dessena who is well positioned he kills the ball in the chest dominated and simply passes it to Pisano who runs after the ball for failing to control it there and touches it in front of Cepellini, Cepellini touches the ball back and Pisano sends the ball over towards Usman, but the ball on the way down is dominated by Dainelli who holds it in his defense field and retreats to Jokic, Jokic leads she approaches Dainelli and touches Morero who receives the pass, takes the ball and passes it to L.igoni in the center.

L.Rigoni drives the ball a little but feels pressured by Conti's marking and touches it for a cross, Cruzado dominates the safe ball and watches the entire field to know who he touches and ends up touching Jokic on the left side of the field, Jokic dominates the ball leads her a little and throws her over to M.Rigoni who at the moment was being guarded by Astori, Astori manages to win the tackle for possession of the ball and touches the ball to Conti, Conti dominates and pulls it to the right touching it to Agostini, Agostini dominates looks forward and passes the ball over Cruzado to Usman who dominates the ball and quickly touches it to Cepellini , Cepellini did not expect this move and the ball passes by his leg stopping at the foot of L.Rigoni who was behind him, L.Rigoni dominates the ball and drives it but he doesn't have time to do anything else and the referee blows the whistle to end the first half of the game the Cagliari team raises their arms for leaving the field in the first time being gained they proceed to the locker room while clapping for the fans who came to see them today.

Why that face? (Desena)

I'm not happy to have scored this time against the team that took our chance to go to champions. (Usman)

I understand that's why in the last few days in training you got a frown and made a little excuse that it was because of more than 90 minutes on the field really thinking that you hold a grudge is unexpected. (D)

Well, for me this is also unexpected, but sometimes it happens unconsciously, we have some goals that we can't complete, it ends up being memorable.

You never had one?

If I had? Of course I have, but not as hard as you they were the team we faced in the last game of last season and you only faced them once and that's it now if you had faced them both I imagine what face you would have had.

Well it depends on how the previous game against him was like.

Get ready boys it's time to get back to the game, let's go.

Let's end this game being victorious, keep calm and focus in these last 45 minutes. (Ivo)

The players return to the field and take their positions again.

The referee whistles the beginning of the 2nd half

The ball starts rolling with Nenê touching Usman, Usman touches the ball to Cepellini, Cepellini dominates the ball and makes the pass to Usman who has already advanced over Verona's field, Usman touches the ball to Nenê who holds the ball waiting for the team to advance and returns the ball to Usman, usman dominates it and drives towards the goal trying to dribble Morero, Morero who was attentive manages to steal the ball from Usman when he tries to dribble him, Morero continues driving the ball and touches Di Michele.

Di Michele receives the pass dominates and returns it to Morero, Morero touches Bentivoglio who plays it to L.Rigoni and they keep exchanging passes holding the game in defense until he touches it to Cesar and Cesar touches Morero who is already positioned more forward, Bentivoglio gets he repositions himself to receive the pass and throws the ball over to M.Rigoni, but the pass is intercepted with a header by Ariaudo who heads the ball forward. L.Rigoni manages to reach the headed ball and this time tries a low pass, Ariaudo intercepts the passes again and touches the ball to Cepellini, Cepellini dominates the ball and drives it trying to dribble Cruzado who came to mark him after receiving the pass, Cepellini manages to pull it to the side, gaining space to see the team that was advancing and touches the ball in Usman.

Usman receives the pass and passes it to Nenê who is further ahead, Nenê dominates the ball and jokic run towards him, Nenê pretends to go towards the right wing and returns to the center touching Dessena who came from behind, Dessena receives and touches for Usman who is closer to the area, Usman dominates the ball and enters the area leading it where he finishes in the goal with his left leg kicking the ball diagonally to the right and at waist height the ball goes towards the goal and passes through the right side of the bar, scraping the beam from the outside.

Usman saw that the ball did not go in, he lowered his head and placed his hands on his knee, Nainggolan who was a little closer behind Usman looked up at the sky, Dessena and Astori who were far from Usman shouted to get rid of the feeling of their teammate's failure to add to the scoreboard.

Sorrentino restarts the game kicking the ball away from his area, the ball falls towards Nenê and Cruzado who fight for the ball in the air, where the ball is headed by Nenê, but it goes towards M. Rigoni who is close to dominates it, what he didn't expect is that Dessenna would run towards him and manage to head the ball before it reached him towards the Northwest in a position between Morero and Cepellini the two run against the ball,, Morero manages to win in the race and dominates it, but Cepellini arrives a little later and steals it.

Cepellini after stealing it touches Usman, Usman dominates and drives the ball towards the Verona goal where he is brought down by Cesar after he manages to dribble him.

The free kick that Cagliari wins is beaten by Astori where he tries to make a cross with a dead ball, who manages to jump and head that ball is Nainggolan who even having managed to head the ball sends it towards the bottom line without any danger to the goalkeeper .

With the ball out Usman is replaced on the field for Sauu to enter.

He is applauded by the fans for his great performance while he is congratulated by his teammates on the bench for having played a great game.

Sorrentino puts the ball on the field with a shot towards the center and who dominates the ball is Bentivoglio after disputing it against Nainggolan, he dominates it and passes it to L. Rigoni who receives the pass and controls the ball in the chest. a on the ground and makes a pass to Morero.

Morero receives the pass and touches L. Rigoni back after he has passed, L.Rigoni drives the ball and is marked by Nainggolan, Nainggolan manages to remove possession of the ball from L. Rigoni and at this moment the ball hits Cepellini who dominates the ball that Nainggolan stole and touched it in Sau, Sal dominated the ball and continued driving the ball from the center of the midfield into the area where he faces Sorrentino, he makes a strong shot on the left side goalkeeper the ball went pass by the right side of the goalkeeper in the corner that he was protecting next to the crossbar so, Sorrentino who was protecting that side manages to block the ball and spread it to the other side where Jokic manages to reach the ball and kicks it quickly to the side.

Dessena charges the sideline throwing the ball to Cepellini, Cepellini goes on the right end and crosses the ball into the area, the ball is taken from the head by Danielli and heads towards M.Rigoni who was preparing to dominate the ball until that Conti passes him running towards the ball and heads the ball to Nainggolan, Nainggolan dominates the ball and tries to create a play with Conti, but both he and Conti were not in harmony as he sends the ball in one direction while Conti was backing to Cagliari's field, the ball is left alone and Cruzado chases it and dominates it, Cruzado continues leading it towards the attack and makes a pass over it when he sees Ariaudo coming to score it with everything.

The ball is sent to the left side of the field where Pellissier dominates the ball and continues driving it towards the Cagliari goal, Astori who is marking him is approaching him little by little, Pellissier seeing it retreat instead of advancing and tries to hold the ball until someone arrives, when he sees a person heading into the area he crosses the ball to them.

The pass doesn't work because Ariaudo had managed to get back into position and intercept the ball and head it to Dessena who manages to dominate the ball and try to follow for a counterattack, but he ends up being marked hard by the presence of L. Rigoni who chases him as he drives the ball to the right wing and tries to make a forward shot, but he is unbalanced by L. Rigoni and sends the ball to the touchline.

With the ball out, Verona made a substitution in the 80th minute of the game, taking out L. Rigoni and putting on Paloshi.

The full-back is taken by Pellissier to M. Rigoni, M. Rigoni dominates the ball and pulls it towards the center touching Bentivoglio, Bentivoglio continues driving the ball and loses it to Nainggolan, Nainggolan follows with the ball and moves it back to Pisano who touches it it back on Nainggolan, Nainggolan pulls back to Astori, Astori passes to Pisano who is advancing to attack, Pisano dominates the ball and keeps driving until Bentivoglio stops him for a foul.

With the foul made by Bentivoglio, the two teams have a chance to put new blood on the field in the 84th minute of the game, close to the end of the game, one team had to hold the other from scoring, one would draw if they conceded and the other would have no more chances to draw after conceding .

Ivo takes out Sau and puts on Slot, in order to maintain possession of the ball at the end of the game and holds the game 1-0.

Pisano takes the free-kick and Nainggolan heads it towards Cepellini, but the ball stops at Cesar's foot, Cesar dominates the ball and passes it to Cruzado.

Cruzado receives the pass and looks at his teammates before passing the ball to Danielli who was in front of him going down the left side, Danielli dominates the ball and passes it back to Cruzado, slowly advancing the whole team while exchanging passes Cruzado touches the ball on Cesar, Cesar passes the ball to Sardo on the right and they advance against the Cagliari team in a last chance attack, the last shot of the game.

Sardo pulls the ball to the center and throws it to Di Michele who dominates it and tries to go to the right side and manages to dribble two Cagliari players who were making a defensive line inside the area he manages to enter the area on the right side and follows towards the goal, when approaching the goal he tries a low pass to Paoloshi who was in the center of the penalty area, but Conti manages to intercept this pass and removes the ball with a kick to the side.

The wing-back is charged and Di Michele dominates the ball and tries this time to make a pass over the top to M. Rigoni inside the area, but this time it is Dessena's turn to take the ball out of the area, intercepting the pass with a header that goes out. of the area.

With the ball being removed from within the area of ​​a danger zone, the referee whistles the end of the game, the Cagliari players come together again to celebrate the victory.

They started the championship with 3 consecutive wins and were ecstatic jumping on the field.

SB Agostini 31 Other Positions (WB)

Nationality Italy

Annual Salary 522,000 Market Value 595,000

Height 174 Age 34 Stronger Foot Left

Attack 67/99 Defense 64/99 Body Balance 70/99

Stamina 77/99 Top Speed 81/99 Acceleration 79/99 Agility 80/99

Responsiveness 67/99 Dribble accuracy 73/99 Dribble Speed 77/99 FK accuracy 63/99

Short Pass accuracy 69/99 S.Pass Speed 70/99 Long Pass accuracy 75/99 L.Pass Speed 71/99

Shot accuracy 57/99 Shot Power 74/99 Shot Techinque 60/99 Techinque 71/99

Swerve 71/99 Header 67/99 Jump 69/99 Aggression 72/99 Tenacity 66/99 Teamwork 75/99

Form 5/8 Weak Foot Accuracy 4/8 Weak Foot Use 4/8 Injury A

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