Analyzing The Match

The last four matches were played and ended with more challenge than the first four.

In the first four matches,

Future Star United dominated Maltese United with a 5-0 victory.

Wild Tigers secured a narrow 1-0 win against Young Starlet.

36 Lions crushed United Squad with a 9-0 scoreline.

Lux City and Law Enforce played to a goalless draw.

That's the result for the first four matches however, the last four were tougher.

Dominion FC narrowly defeated Roland FC 2-1.

Golden Griffin overcame Holy City 2-0.

Azure Waves suffered a 1-3 loss to Stark FC.

Starlight Legion and Super Bien battled to a 2-2 draw.

They were more challenging than the first four that almost look like a one-sided match.

Everyone left after the closing ceremony was done, during the closing ceremony the next fixtures was announced for everyone to know who their enemy is, so they could go through their previous match and prepare for them.

The next match will be taking place on Wednesday so they don't really have much time, after all, most of the players participating in the tournament are students and they would need to go to school.

The next fixtures is as follows;

Group A:

Future Star United vs. Dominion FC

Maltese United vs. Roland FC

Group B

Young Starlet vs. Golden Griffin

Wild Tigers vs. Holy City

Group C:

United Squad vs. Azure Waves

36 Lions vs. Stark FC

Group D:

Starlight Legion vs. Lux City

Super Bien vs. Law Enforcer

It was already evening when everything ended, the remnants of the sun dancing on the sky and they gently move to the horizon, Emmy and his teammates with coach boarded their bus and headed home, they're going back to their field.

The coach had a few things to discuss with them, first is the analysis of their own match with 36 Lions and second is the analysis of their next opponent previous match - Azure Waves. Then a plan would be implemented.

They have a very short amount of time so they had to be quick, and talking of that, the coach is already discussing with them as their bus move gently midair.

"You all did well, I wouldn't expect less from those people but at the same time, you guys didn't do your best. You didn't put more effort into that match, especially you - Emmy."

"I don't know what's wrong with you, before the match started you were confident but during the match, it's as if you are not on the field at all, you didn't play with your heart. Why?"

Emmy shrugged and rubbed the back of his head but didn't say anything.

The coach continue, not waiting for answer from him.

"You're all my players and I know your abilities, I know what you can all do, some of you have been with me for years while some of you joined recently, but still I know what you can all do. Your performance in that match is poor, you can do better than that. Didn't you all see the match stats? Ball possession was 13 - 87, your shot on target was zero, shot off target is 2 and zero goals. While they had more than 10 shot on target and off target."

"Guys, I want you all to becareful, like I said some weeks ago, this tournament means a lot to us, you've been trapped in this upcoming local team for years and we need to get the fuck out and be promoted. We don't need to win the tournament, all we needed is to be among the top three. So guys I'm begging you now, we can still fix our error, one loss cannot take us out of the tournament but two will. So guys you all need to do your best Okay?"

"Yes sir!!!"

They replied in unison.

"Alright, we'll go through the analysis of our match now to realize what we can do to make a good performance and then we analyse our next opponent previous match before we train to prepare for them."

The coach brought out a small triangular device with his smartphone, then he started playing their match with 36 Lions on his phone which was then projected midair.

As the video began, they all glance at Emmy including the coach.

"Curious, what were you thinking back then, you seems to be lost."

The coach asked.

Emmy coughed and replied in an embarrassed tone.

"Er, I was just thinking of a way to infiltrate their defense," Emmy admitted. "Their backline seemed impenetrable, but my thoughts wandered more than they should have."

The coach nodded, seemingly satisfied with Emmy's response. "Makes sense. You noticed their defenders, and you're right—they were solid. But did you also catch their change in style?"

Emmy nodded. "Yes, I did."

"Alright, we'll go through it now."

Watching the video, he finally know how the ball was gained quickly at the start of the match, it was his fault, the striker passed the ball to him but he was absent minded which made the captain to rushed out to gain the ball when he noticed Emmy's action but their opponent striker came like a bullet and got the ball, then passed it back to their midfielder, the midfielder coated the ball with flame and shot it out which then hit Emmy directly on his head.

'Bastard, he did it on purpose.'

He wasn't watching from the video the coach was playing, he was watching from his system but he made sure not to completely focus on it so others won't notice, also he is only looking at the analysis from his system while peeking at the video from the coach projection.

He had seen his team mistake, he had seen what should've been done, the best way to counter their opponent talent and ability, the best move to stop their attack and the best formation to put pressure on them so they could lose their composure and lastly, the best combination of players and ability to come with a good performance.

'Complicated, too complicated.'

Everything is just too complicated for him to put together, it even takes the system some moment to produce the analysis, it seems their opponent are just too good, they were talented and well trained.

'It seems this would be the coach work.'

If the coach can see what he is seeing, he would definitely know what to do but how would the coach see it.

'I think I'll need to explain it myself but I should listen to the coach analysis and explanation first.'

He stopped the analysis from his system and focused on the coach. After a while, the coach paused the video and stood up.

"I don't need to tell anybody with their right senses that this is where the game changes, this is where 36 Lions changed their playing style. You can all see that after the first goal, it's as if they were struggling to score another one while you guys were doing your best to protect your goalpost. They were only fooling you, they were fooling you to know your capabilities, to know where ability of your playing style ended and the best way to finish you people. Although, even without this fooling stuff, they would have won anyway but they needed to know the capability of their opponent so they won't lose composure and play recklessly like you guys did, that's why they tested you with the first goal."

"The first goal was to know if you guys can return it and the amount of time it takes you to return it and if you guys can stop them from scoring another goal. But after they noticed that you guys cannot do any of this, they unleashed their wrath on you and scored 8 more goals."

He paused giving them time to take in the information.

"It seems Emmy was the only one who noticed this act while the match was going on, and I can tell that you started paying attention to their style after you realized their acting, so I'll need you to come with your own analysis when I'm done with mine."

The coach said, then resume the video.

'Huh, what was that for? Does he read my mind? No way.'