VS MARBLES: Group Stage

The kickoff was swift. Nico had ordered them to do a one-touch game for a short time as they had always done in trainings.

Krystal Fc players made sure to stay together and they moved in sync. Eric passed the ball to Neo and Neo quickly released the pass.

All marbles players had pushed backwards. It was a surprising sight to see how marbles had already come up with a counter for Krystal Fc's sudden fast break.

But it wasn't neccessary though, as that was rarely going to happen in this match. Krystal Fc had grown a lot from their last match, they had a new player now, and he had changed the team so much.

Neo was a very big boon to the team, it just wasn't clear if he was boon enough to help Krystal Fc win the tournament.

It was odd that Neo was actually a midfielder, but he was mostly in the attacking area when he usually switched wings with Mark and played left forward instead. Neo's main job in the match was to charge up goals and balance the game.

A high flying pass was released by Adrienne and it was undoubtedly sent towards Aesop. Krystal Fc was in a deadlock, their opponent's marking was very tight and their defene seemed unbreachable from a distance. But that didn't mean that Aesop would be beaten in the air.

Aesop took to the skies and he gently obtained the high pass and brought it down for Eric. Seeing this, Cai made a quick and instant run towards his opponent's goal post.

Eric saw him very clearly and he released a looping pass that went over all the defeners that sought to stop the small winger from breaching their defense lines.

Cai contolled the ball and a defender, two defenders, actually, had already closed in on him.

Cai managed to stick a foot to the ball and that was enough to set him loose, Cai instantly zoomed off, leaving the defenders behind.

Cai managed to wriggle himself out of the many opponents that surrounded him and he immediately raised his leg to cross the ball.

Many legs swam to his front to block the cross but they were all shoved aside as Cai cancelled the cross, probing all of them tomove even further away from him, some even procceeded to go out of bounds.

Seeing even more space, Cai decided to drive into the penalty box. But was one half of the twin tower going to allow him do that?

Zoe immediately blocked Cai's route, giving him a mock smirk and daring him to go on.

Cai wasn't deterred in any way, this was only one half of the twin tower and he dared to act so smug? Cai was determined to make him pay for being so cocky.

Cai moved the ball to his left, still not loosing his hold on the ball, he cut straight into the right immediately. It was a well performed elastico, to make it even more good looking, he performed it wih his weaker foot (his left leg).

The skill erupted a loud bout of cheers and excited claps from the fans that were watching so keenly.

Zoe was quick to recover, in a second, he was already sticking his foot at the ball. But Cai was already annoyed, Cai cut inside again, forcing Zoe to turn around( for the second time). On turning around, Zoe saw Cai moving back to the position he just turned from and he quickly tried to follow up, but he wasn't a robot, he easily got dizzy and came crashing o the floor.

Cai crossed the ball over to the edge of the box where Mark was already making a venomus run.

Mark jumped as he steadily approached the ball, it looked like he was going to deliver a very powerful header.

In the next momen, Harry had rushed out of his goal post and punched the ball right out of the head of Mark.

The rebound fel towards Adrienne who powered a shot towards the left corner of the post.

Harry was as fast as lightning, in a breath he was already back in position and he was already diving forward.

Harry made a smooth save as the ball stayed firmly in his hands. The crowd sighed sharply as they wondered whether his hand attracted balls, when Adrienne shot the ball, Harry was not yet fully in postition, and it was a great wonder how Harry was able to catch such a powerful ball very easily and let it even stay in his hands without being forced to knock it away.

No matter how they wondered, it couldn't change the fact that Harry had saved the ball and soon, Krystal Fc would be under attack.