Dream : Legend Maker
Provocations
WARNING: Any form of name, place, background is fiction
The break was over and the youth round had begun. A middle-aged man who had a messy, unkempt dressing style walked into the stands and looked for an empty chair.
He is Susilo, a scout from a 1st league club. Their job is to recruit young talent buried in various directions. This time he came to see the match of Maung Raja with Persihasel. Susilo arrived late and when he saw the scoreboard were two points of victory for Maung Raja.
The current situation is still going the same as the first half. The Maung Raja players attacked the defense from Persihasel ferociously. But if the first half Persihasel did not show a meaningful resistance in this second half they can retaliate fiercely.
Waiting for the Maung King team to fail to complete its attack, they would counterattack with
the passes are quick before defensive player Maung Raja returns to the defensive line.
In the 50th minute the golden opportunity for Persihasel to catch up came. Through a long-range pass from the Persihasel defense, their striker managed to dribble closer to the Maung Raja defense.
Luckily due to the cooperation of Sandi and Ucup, striker Persihasel did not have so many shooting angles. So that the shot that was carried out was too clear and Cahyo managed to catch the shot.
Cahyo shouted in a loud voice so that they were also more careful in attacking. Unfortunately his words only entered the right ear and out the left ear. They were so focused on attacking that a similar incident occurred after seven minutes.
Learning from the events of the past, striker Persihasel made a trick shot and managed to enter the penalty box after passing Sandi. Ucup who was nearby also tried to seize the ball with a tackle. Persihasel's attack was stopped but striker Persihasel was already lying on the grass holding his leg.
The referee immediately ran up to them then pulled out a yellow card shown to Ucup and pointed his hand at the box. Ucup immediately protested against the referee if the tackle was clean only about the ball, Cahyo as captain and was in the closest position to the incident also tried to negotiate with the referee.
But the pain of striker Persihasel was too real so the referee still insisted to give a penalty for Persihasel. After it was believed that the penalty decision was not overturned striker Persihasel stood firmly as if the expression of pain just now did not really happen.
Apparently he did diving so that it increasingly made Maung Raja players in anger. Persihasel managed to catch up and was only one goal away to tie the score into a draw. The penalty failed to be stopped by Cahyo because he was wrong in guessing the direction of the ball.
Persihasel managed to prove that the word patience will pay off. After successfully enduring wave after wave of attacks from the Maung King the opportunity came once again for them.
With the cooperation between the striker and the winger from Persihasel they managed to pass two players. This time their goal was clearly directed to Ucup who had a yellow card. Utilizing the psychic condition of Ucup who was afraid of getting a yellow card again, Persihasel easily penetrated the last defense of Maung Raja.
Cahyo ran close to striker Persihasel who was getting closer to grab the ball, unfortunately this is not one versus one as in Cahyo's shadow as this is two versus one. Smiling mockingly to Cahyo he fed the ball to the right side which was greeted with a loud kick from his teammate's winger.
The score was tied in the 68th minute. The two-point advantage of the Maung King evaporated like air. Persihasel's second goal was like a wobble of water that woke them up that this was a quarter-final which of course their ability should not be underestimated.
Handoko immediately made a change of players. Ucup who was in the shadow of a yellow card can not play optimally so replaced by Kusno. Although his original position was a defensive midfielder he could also be positioned as a centre-back.
With the presence of Kusno Maung Raja's defense became more solid facing Persihasel's counterattack. But two goals in return from Persihasel made Maung Raja become more careful in attacking.
The deadlock situation was successfully maintained until the end of the match. Until the end of the game Maung Raja did not give up to attack Persihasel's defense but also eventually returned without success.
The only threat was Raka's long-range strike 22 metres from goal. The ball quickly shot towards the top right corner of the Persihasel goal. Even goalkeeper Persihasel was surprised to forget to chase the ball but the ball finally only hit the crossbar and was thrown away by defender Persihasel.
Maung Raja failed to take advantage on his own turf so they had to put in more effort in the second round against Persihasel.
Maung Raja supporters could only sigh disappointed with the result, they were quite happy with the performance of Maung Raja's attack throughout the first half but came home disappointed when they saw how weak the defense of Maung Raja was.
Susilo had also finished observing the match and immediately left the stadium. In this match no one has managed to amaze him both from the Maung Raja and Persihasel teams.
The only thing that made his heart beat was Raka's last long-range kick but he could not confirm whether it was really his ability or just luck.
To make sure it is necessary to see the next few games but the question is whether Maung Raja made it to the semi-finals or not. So Susilo just came back with nothing to report to the club.
The first round match against Persihasel became a reminder to Handoko of the weak defense of Maung Raja. He is too focused on attacking and forgets the importance of defense.
Luckily there is still two weeks before the second round is done he can train his players to
increase defense training.
South Halmahera is located in the Maluku Islands, three days before the second round begins against Persihasel players from Maung Raja immediately depart from Jakarta to Maluku.
This time they will try to get a ticket to the semi-finals.
On the day of the match against Persihasel they were greeted by cheers from Persihasel supporters. Rude and disrespectful words were addressed to the players of Maung Raja to disturb their mentality in the match. Raka felt like covering her ears but of course it was impossible.
Maung Raja got his first kick off, having set up control of the ball through back-and-forth passes in their defensive line immediately catapulting an attack to Persihasel. At a distance of 19 meters from the goal Raka got a pass from Andre who rushed to the middle of the field.
Persihasel players forget the incident of Raka's long-range kick that was done in the first round match. Raka who saw that he had a variety of good shooting angles immediately did a shuffle to shoot.
Feel my kick this time
Of course the words were only in Raka's mind. The ball is successfully kicked towards the goal. Goalkeeper Persihasel jumped trying to reach the ball but failed.
A spectacular opening goal from Raka managed to silence the cries of Persihasel supporters. Raka ran up to the stands while bringing her index finger to her lips. A gesture to tell people to be quiet. Celebrations from Raka managed to provoke Persihasel supporters but ignored by Raka.