Chapter 88 Hero
With the big day of the opening match of the European Masters Cup arriving the players were nervous, the fans were nervous, after 40 years they were again playing in a continental tournament, they had been waiting for this big one since the beginning of the season the team they were facing in their first match could be considered one of the key teams of the year who are considered the favorites to win the tournament.
As in the previous season, Roma managed to win the tournament, the teams that faced the Italian teams were even more difficult because of their fame.
But, even with the fame gained in the previous year in the tournament, Cagliari is still considered a team far below average, what they call a black horse or underdog.
Tottheham is a team with great players in this decade, they had young promises and veteran players, which made people think more when looking at the lineup of the two teams on paper, Tottheham was better in everything on and off the field, like history of the club, but it was a team that was considered flawed just like Cagliari, having failed to win titles in the last 2 decades or more.
Even with this factor, some of the Tottheham players such as Adebayor and Van de Vaart gave interviews talking about the game.
What do you think about the match against Cagliari? (News reporter)
I don't think it will be a challenge for us, we are a team that competes for the championship title for more years than they manage to remain in the first division, we have the capacity of international athletes who play for their national teams as starters, it is difficult to simply think them as a challenge to us. (Van de Vaart)
The second to be interviewed Adebayor, the best player on the team considered the best African player in 2008, competing for that title with Eto, Drogba and some others.
And you, boss Adebayor, what can you tell us about Cagliari?
All I can think about is simply the fact that this team managed to do great things this year, but they are still lacking in technical and mental capacity to face us, as they are young and have never played tournament matches outside their own team's country, so I think who became more withdrawn. (Adebayor)
Would you like to say any more facts?
Yes, I am happy that in a few years after the growth of African star players, more young Africans have come to demonstrate their ability and enthusiasm for football, as it is considered the biggest sport in the entire world. (Adebayor)
Right.
On the other hand, the Cagliari players were trying to remain as calm as possible, with no interviews or even conversations about the game, nothing to talk about.
Unbelievable, what is he talking about, don't you think? (Sofia)
Really who would have thought that the English would have such a big mouth to let an interview like that air when Cagliari is competing for the Italian championship title. (Claudia Nainggolan)
Sometimes there really are people who like to burn themselves. (Sofia)
I also think, I hope they take a big lesson to define how masochistic they are, just because there are some players who are in the national team doesn't mean that the team will be better than everyone else, otherwise Cagliari would have been champions a long time ago with Radja here . (Claudia Nainggolan)
When the game is over, don't forget to take a photo to post. (Sofia)
We're here to watch the big Cagliari vs Tottheham game. (Storyteller)
How are you? (Storyteller)
I'm doing very well, and I hope to see good sportsmanship between the two teams and whoever plays best wins. (Commentator)
Cagliari comes with.
GK Avramov 25
CB Rossettini 15 Astori 13 RB Pisano 14 LB Agostini 31
DMF Conti 5 © CMF Dessena 21 Slot 11 AMF Cossu 7
CF Sau 27 and Usman 10
The North East London team (Tottheham) came with.
GK Gomes 1
CB Dawson 20 Gallas 13 RB K. Walker 28 14 LB Assou Ekotto 32
DMF Sandro 30 CMF Modric 14 RMF Bale 11 LMF Lennon 7 AMF Van Der Vaart 10
CF Adebayor 25
The match starts with the referee's whistle and Saú passes the ball to Usman.
Usman plays the ball to Dessena, Dessena dominates the ball and leads the attack, dribbling Lennon and passing the ball to Cossu, Cossu dominates the ball and tries to dribble Van Der Vaart, but loses for putting the ball too far in front when he was leading it .
Van Der Vaart steals the ball and touches Bale on the right flank.
Bale dominates the ball and tries to continue leading the attack.
Bale tries to pass Sandro to the center, but the ball is intercepted and caught by Cossu.
Cossu, who managed to recover the ball, passes it to Saú, Saú manages to control the ball and sees the chance to launch it through the center so that Usman can catch it close to the area.
Saú makes the low throw and Usman chases the ball past all the defenders and facing goalkeeper Gomes head on.
Usman tries to hit with his right leg, but goalkeeper Gomes, who had moved forward, manages to defend by putting his arm to the side and blocking the ball's passage.
The ball is flying Usman tries to finish with a header!
The ball flies out.
Gomes decides to touch the ball on the ground and leaves the ball at Dawson's foot, Dawson dominates and touches the ball to Gallas.
Gallas receives the pass and touches the ball on the left flank to Assou Ekotto, Ekotto takes the ball forward and almost loses it to Sal who comes to mark him, but luckily he manages to stretch his leg and pass it to Lennon.
Lennon manages to dominate it and play it towards Sandro, Sandro dominates the ball and continues driving through the center.
Sandro tries to pass to Adebayor, but the ball is intercepted by Astori.
Astori plays for Conti.
Conti dominates and watches Usman far ahead on the Tottheham field.
Conti plays a long low pass to Usman and the ball goes past him and Walker.
Seeing no ways to follow Usman plays Slot behind.
Slot continues to drive slowly and meets Bale who returns to the field, helping with the defense. Slot loses the ball, but it ends up at Usman's foot.
Usman pulls the ball one way, pretends to go the other way and then tries to attract Bale by provoking him by passing over the ball.
Usman pulls the ball to the right and tries to pass Bale, but Bale manages to take the ball away from Usman by hitting it.
The ball leaves Usman's foot and ends up in Slot who was close to him behind.
Usman repositions himself closer to the crescent.
Slot sees that Usman managed to find a good spot and makes the pass to Usman.
Usman dominates the ball, pulls it to his right leg and finishes with a strong shot from the edge of the area in the half-moon, the ball goes to the right corner diagonally, the strong shot flies high into the owl's corner!
Goal!
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!
They score 1-0.
The game resumes with the ball with Tottheham.
Adebayor plays for Van der Vaart, Van der Vaart plays for Modric.
Modric sees Adebayor advancing and makes the pass to him.
The ball passes Adebayor who tries to chase it and stops at the foot of Pisano who manages to control it by lifting his leg and passing the ball to Rossettini.
Rossettini makes a first-time pass to Slot.
Slot dominates and takes the ball across the Tottheham field and passes it to Dessena.
Dessena makes the first pass to Usman, running the risk of losing the ball to Sandro by dominating it.
Usman manages to control the ball and takes it towards the Tottheham goal.
Approaching the area Usman takes a chance to shoot from the half-moon, but the shot is blocked by Kyle Walker who puts his body in front and the ball simply goes up and falls into the hands of goalkeeper Gomes.
Gomes throws the ball directly at Lennon.
Lennon dominates the ball on his chest, puts it on the ground and takes it into the attack.
Lennon continues to drive the ball and dribbles past Dessena in the midfield, Lennon continues to drive while being chased, he enters the area and finishes the ball into the goal.
The shot is saved by Avramov.
Avramov throws the ball to Rossettini, Rossettini plays the ball to Agostini, AAgostini takes the ball forward and touches it to Slot.
Slot dominates the ball, looks at Tottheham's field and makes the pass to Usman who is free.
Usman dominates the ball and drives towards the goal, he dribbles past Kyle by pedaling it and passing it to the side, he runs with the ball and meets Dawson head on near the edge of the area.
Dawson tries to lunge at Usman, but Usman passes the ball between his legs, giving Dawson a dribble, very commonly called Pen, Usman manages to enter the area carrying the ball and finds himself facing Gomes who came towards him to defend the goal blocking the shot as Usman dribbled past Dawson
Usman was calm and cool as ice and simply kicked the ball into the right corner of the goal.
The ball passed to the left side of Gomes, who was unable to reach it, rose to chest height and fell into the goal.
Goal!
Gooooooooooooooooooooool!
They score the 2nd.
Unbelievable.
What we are seeing is something historic, in Cagliari's first match in this tournament they manage to score 2 goals against one of the favorite teams to win the cup.
The game restarts for the second time with Adebayor playing to Van Der Vaart, Van Der Vaart playing to Modric, Modric playing the ball to Lennon.
Lennon dominated the ball and looked forward into the Cagliari field where he passed to Adebayor high up, the pass fell to Astori's foot who kicked the ball away without it touching the ground.
The ball is sent into Tottheham's half where Dawson positions it and heads it into Cagliari's half again.
This time the ball is dominated by Adebayor who manages to catch it and is trapped by 3 Cagliari players, Conti Astori and Usman who chased the ball that he had dominated.
Adebayor manages to protect it and dribbles past Usman in an instant, passing the ball to Van Der Vaart.
Van Der Vaart played the ball to Modric, Modric dominated and drove diagonally towards the left wing where he passed it to Ekotto.
Ekotto dominates the ball and continues to drive it down the wing.
Ekotto leads her and manages to enter the area calmly with her speed.
Ekotto tries to finish a shot at the goal, but his shot comes out badly as it goes diagonally from one side to the other and goes out along the baseline.
Avramov kicks the ball away, the ball comes down and is contested by Modric and Desena in the air.
Modric wins and heads the ball past Van Der Vaart.
Van Der Vaart dominates the ball and passes it to Adebayor with a pass over the top, but the ball comes out hard and falls into the area where Avramov positions himself and manages to catch it.
After grabbing it he kicks the ball away again, the ball is played in the center of the midfield by Saú and Sandro, Saú manages to head it to
Cossu.
Cossu manages to touch the ball and catch it.
Cossu plays the ball to Usman while taking a tackle from Van Der Vaart.
Usman dominates the ball and pulls it to the right leading and dribbling the Tottheham players, he manages to run and almost loses the ball to Modric who manages to touch it, but Usman manages to pass him while the ball runs further forward.
Usman chases the ball and manages to touch it before Ekotto by stretching his leg and at the same moment Ekotto stretches his leg to catch it as Usman touched it he manages to direct it between Ekotto's legs giving another pen in play.
Usman takes the ball and heads into the area, he tries to get as close as possible to the goalkeeper, taking it diagonally to the left, but Gallas ends up closing the passage, Usman is forced to risk the shot and finishes the ball into the goal.
Gomes closed the side of the goal and defended by sending the ball to the baseline.
The ball goes over the baseline and is a corner.
The corner is taken, but nothing happens and the referee blows the whistle for the end of the first half.
We are being fully pressured and allowing easy openings to appear, so as soon as the second half starts I want you all to attack without worrying about the defense, we will play completely for the attack, understand? (Van Der Vaart)
We understand! (Tottheham team)
Lennon, Adebayor, Bale I will bet on the speed of the three of you as soon as you touch the ball to me I will make the pass to Modric and in the meantime run as far as you can as he is the one who will choose who you will make the pass to. (Van Der Vaart)
Fine by me. (Lennon)
OK! (Ballet)
What was some problem? (Van Der Vaart)
No, none. (Adebayor)
The Tottheham players returned to the field with the expressions of warriors who were going into battle now in the 2nd half. (as they haven't entered yet, an expression that says I'll survive everything always appears)
The 2nd half started Adebayor played the ball to Van de Vaart and ran, Van Der Vaart played the ball to Modric.
Modric makes the pass to Lennon on the left wing, Lennon receives it and returns the ball.
Modric dominates again and dribbles past Saú who tries to steal from him, passing the ball between his legs.
Modric makes a high ball to the right flank.
The pass goes perfectly and Lennon manages to control the ball alone near the Cagliari area.
Lennon takes the ball and plays a pass into the box for Van Der Vaart, Van Der Vaart dominates the ball and protects it against his marker Astori.
Van Der Vaart turns the ball and takes it to the center of the area where he can see the goal more easily after dribbling past Astori and escaping Pisano.
Van Der Vaart shoots at goal!
The ball would hit Adebayor who managed to avoid the ball's path.
The ball goes to the left side of the goal!
Avramov jumps, but doesn't reach it and the ball goes into the goal.
Gooooooooooooooooooooool!
Van Der Vaart scores to reduce the lead.
Cagliari 2 x 1 Tottheham
Tottheham players return to their field carrying the ball instead of celebrating the goal at the corner flag.
Usman runs over to Conti to talk.
Captain. (Usman)
Do you think it's better for us to continue focusing on the attack or is it better for us to start focusing on maintaining the advantage? (Usman)
We still have 40 minutes to play, so I can only think that to maintain the advantage on the scoreboard we have to continue disturbing their defense, we will make more and more attacks, shots from outside and crosses will be our biggest focus if possible, because their defensive organization when they play Defending is very good when the 5 midfielders return to help with the defense. (Continued)
Right.
The game was about to restart and the Cagliari team began to awaken the aura they had when they played in the first half.
First touch salute to Usman.
Usman makes the pass to Cossu, Cossu dominates and leads the attack, passing the ball to Usman who advances.
The ball passes between Adebayor and Van Der Vaart who quickly steals it from Cossu's feet, but the pass goes well and the ball is contested by Usman and Sandro.
Usman manages to touch the ball, taking it away from Sandro.
Usman chases the ball and manages to reach it when he gets it again and passes it to Dessena.
Dessena dominates the ball and advances, driving across the Tottheham field, but the situation doesn't stay that way for long, as Modric comes with his speed, chasing Dessena, overtaking him and stealing the ball.
Modric, who managed to get the ball, makes a backheel pass to Lennon.
Lennon dominates the ball and makes the pass to Adebayor.
Adebayor dominates and pulls it to the center, passing it to Van Der Vaart, Van Der Vaart makes the pass to the right wing over the top and Sandro manages to receive the pass, Sandro dominates and finds the ball.
Bale pulls the ball to the center and makes the pass over the top to Van Der Vaart, Van Der Vaart with his mastery dominates the ball with his head and puts it on the ground, entering the area, he is unable to get rid of Dessena's marking and decides to play the ball for the side in Lennon.
Lennon prepares his leg and finishes the ball.
The ball goes straight out.
Avramov takes the goal kick by kicking the ball in the center of the midfield, the ball goes down and is contested in the air by Modric and Cossu.
Neither of them heads the ball and it hits Cossu after he jumps, the ball is caught by Usman who appears behind the two.
Usman takes the ball and takes it forward to attack.
Usman runs carrying the ball and dribbles past Sandro, pulling the ball to the left and then to the right where he manages to pass it past Sandro.
Usman continues to carry the ball, Usman finds himself facing the defender Gallas at that moment Usman pulls the ball to the left and adds his speed to pass him.
Usman manages to enter the area and pass Gallas, but his shooting range is not so good for him to score over Gomes, even so Usman finishes the shot on goal and Gomes manages to block the shot with his foot and send the ball to away from the area.
The ball falls to Sandro on the outside of the area, Sandro dominates the ball and tries to take it while the team positions itself for the counterattack.
No longer able to keep possession of the ball he passes it to Kyle Walker on the right flank before he can lose it to the Cagliari players still in the attacking field.
Walker receives the pass and tries to return it ahead.
The pass is intercepted by Usman who is close to the edge of the area with the defenders disorganized.
Usman tries to move forward to enter the area, but defender Dawson was quick to position himself to block him in front of him.
Usman pulls the ball to the right and is centered in front of the goal where he kicks the ball with his left leg after setting it up with his right leg.
The shot goes low and goes into the right corner after passing close to goalkeeper Gomes' leg and goalkeeper Gomes is unable to reach it even though he stretches his leg.
The ball enters the right corner of the goal.
Goal.
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!!!!!
He scores the 3rd goal of the match!
He scores his first Hat-trick in his entire career.
Usman simply runs to the corner flag and makes movements as if he were using a sword.
It cuts from right to left.
Cut from left to right.
Cut from top to bottom.
Huuuuuu!!!
At this moment, in order not to lose Usman to injury after scoring 3 goals in a single game, Ivo decides to remove him and replace him with Nenê.
Usman walks to the exit and hugs Nenê.
Don't worry, you've already done the complete work, I'll keep the victory. (Baby)
My Warrior, today you will receive a great reward. (Ivo)
Hahahaha. (Ivo)
On the field, Tottheham's players were no longer with the same intensity as when they started the second half.
They realized that the team they were facing could be considered a giant-killer just like the Italians said.
Tottheham would now play to avoid conceding any more goals, keeping the score as it is clear they would not stop attacking, but would focus more on defense.
Adebayor takes the first touch of the ball, Van Der Vaart makes the pass to Sandro.
Sandro dominates the ball and makes the pass to Modric.
The pass is sloppy, yet Modric manages to control the ball and drive it into midfield.
Modric plays the ball to Ekotto on the left wing.
Ekotto dominates the ball and continues driving it down the wing, as he advances he finds himself face to face with Pisano, Pisano tries to catch the ball from Ekotto, he manages to throw it forward, passing Pisano's side and running along the wing, advancing across the Cagliari field, he sees Lennon ahead.
Ekotto makes the pass to Lennon.
Lennon receives the pass and manages to control the ball close to the baseline where he crosses into the box.
The ball sent into the box is headed by Rossettini out of the box and thrown into the center of midfield.
The ball sent to the center of midfield is dominated by Cossu who tries to put it on the ground, but fails and it runs towards the right wing.
The ball that escaped Cossu's control is hit by Modric into To Tottheham's defensive field and sent with a pass to Walker.
Modric's pass is intercepted by Saú who manages to steal the ball in the center of midfield in the same way that Usman managed to intercept Walker's pass.
This move left Tottheham players and fans in fear.
Saú managed to play it for Nenê.
Nenê dominated the ball and started a play with Saú exchanging passes as he slowly advanced across the Tottheham field while being marked like a wall.
Saú saw that he was being surrounded by Tottheham players and decided to pass the ball back to Dessena.
The pass ends up going behind Dessena and he has to run back to get the ball.
Dessena manages to reach the ball and dominate it, he turns and tries to run with it, taking it to the right wing while being marked by Lennon.
Dessena makes the pass to Pisano who is in an advanced position on the right wing.
Pisano dominates the ball and takes it forward along the edge, Ekotto positions himself to prevent Pisano from passing through the edge.
Pisano pulls the ball towards the center and makes a high pass to Saú inside the area.
Saú loses the ball because of Sandro's interception as he jumps like a basketball player and heads the ball to Modric outside the box.
Modric tries to dominate the ball by quickly leading it into a counterattack, but Conti appears and manages to steal possession of the ball from Modric and manage to continue Cagliari's attack by driving the ball through the center.
Conti is marked by Dawson and Gallas as well as Sandro who closed the entrance to the Tottheham area.
Conti makes the pass to Saú who is on the left side of the penalty area.
Saú manages to control the ball and tries to play the ball to Cossu who was entering the center, as soon as he received the ball he attracted the attention of Sandro and Gallas.
The pass goes wrong, as Cossu's rhythm was not in harmony with Saú's pass.
The pass goes past Cossu and he has to go back to get the ball.
Cossu manages to catch the ball and returns the ball to Saú who, after passing the ball, was left unmarked again.
Saú dominates the ball inside the area and finishes a shot on goal!
The shot comes from the left leg, which makes the ball go low and into the left corner of the goal.
Goalkeeper Gomes was correctly positioned and prepared, as he managed to throw himself to the ground and defend the ball with his hands and catch it safely.
Gomes gets up and launches the ball with a strong kick into the midfield.
The ball goes down and is dominated by bale near the center of midfield.
Bale puts the ball on the ground and passes it to Sandro.
Sandro dominates the ball and makes a backheel pass to Modric.
Modric dominates the ball and makes a high ball to the left flank.
Lennon chases the ball competing in speed against Pisano and manages to reach it first.
Lennon drives the ball at speed close to the baseline and delivers a cross into the box.
The ball flies over Adebayor and goes down.
Conti, who was right behind Adebayor, manages to head the ball out of the box.
The headed ball is dominated by Cossu who retreats into defense to help.
Cossu makes a pass to Nenê who is in the center of midfield.
Nenê dominated the ball and passed it back to Cossu after holding them back.
Cossu dominated the ball and advanced, taking the ball through the center of the field.
Cossu, getting closer to facing Sandro head on, makes the pass to Nenê.
Nenê dominates the ball, but loses it, as Gallas makes a hard mark on him and touches the ball.
The ball stops at Lennon's foot, which passes to Bale on the other side of the field, Bale dominates and drives it backwards across the field.
Bale plays the ball to Gallas who is behind and once again Saú manages to intercept the pass, stealing the ball and having another attacking opportunity.
Saú drives the ball backwards and attracts Gallas and sees Nenê pass to his left.
Saú makes the pass to Nenê, Nenê dominates the ball and takes it towards Tottheham's goal.
Nenê advances and manages to get past Dawson and enter the area.
Nenê faces Gomes one-on-one and instead of shooting he looks to the side and makes the pass to Dessena, Dessena dominates the ball and nobody or none of the players understands why he did that he could try to shoot at the goal to score the goal , but decided to play the ball to his teammate who is outside the area on the right wing.
Dessena, who controlled the ball, crossed it into the area.
The cross is dominated by Gallas inside the area and then headed out of the area, thus ending the last attacking chance of the match.
Pi! The referee whistles the end of the game.
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Annual Salary 350.000 Valor de Mercado 414.000
Height 175 Age 19 Stronger Foot Left
Ataque 67/99 Defesa 44/99 Body Balance 73/99
Stamina 76/99 Top Speed 80/99 Acceleration 80/99 Agility 77/99
Responsiveness 71/99 Dribble accuracy 75/99 Dribble Speed 78/99 FK accuracy 67/99
Short Pass accuracy 69/99 S. Pass Speed 70/99 Long Pass accuracy 72/99 L.Pass Speed 73/99
Shot accuracy 66/99 Shot Power 74/99 Shot Techinque 68/99 Techinque 76/99
Swerve 71/99 Header 71/99 Jump 75/99 Aggression 77/99 Tenacity 67/99 Teamwork 68/99
Form 3/8 Weak Foot Accuracy 4/8 Weak Foot Use 4/8 Injury A
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