Dream : Legend Maker
The League's start
WARNING: Any form of name, place, background is fiction
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The Maung Raja players could not drag on in despair, they had to make the defeat against Persipura in a friendly match fuel their morale to start the course of the league.
On the same day when playing a friendly match, the governing body of the Indonesian football league has issued a match schedule both from league 1,2, and 3.
Provincial League or commonly known as league 3 has 64 participating football clubs. A number of clubs were then divided into 16 groups containing 4 clubs each. Both group winners and runners-up will qualify and enter the round of 32. The club that wins in the last 32 matches will qualify for the round of 16. Then it entered the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and then the grand final.
Briefly, the outline of the 3 league system uses a tournament system and not using a class system such as league 1 and league 2.
Maung Raja was placed in group F with Sleman United, Batavia, and Serpong City. The first match that will be played by Maung Raja is an away match against Banten's club, Serpong City.
On the day of the match against Serpong City, it is currently in the dressing room of the Maung Raja player.
Handoko was helped by her assistant busy doodling the whiteboard. He is drawing a football formation. After finishing that, he turned around and looked at his players who were talking to each other.
Handoko tapped her hand on the blackboard to get attention from them, after the atmosphere became calmer she explained the strategy that would be applied by them today.
"Good listen to me, this is our first league game and my target is to get 3 points. Give your best and take home the victory. It's your choice to go home with a laugh or you'd rather go home with the dean bowing your head."
"Well this is the important part, this time we will use a 4-1-3-2 attacking formation. The names I read after this are the names that will start first."
Handoko groped her pants pocket and took out a small book. He opened it and started reading out the names of the players.
"Cahy"
"Faiz, Sandi, Ucup, Hafiz"
"Ahmad, Anton, Raka, Andre"
"Beto, Alan"
Raka is very happy because he is trusted to be the starting line-up by Handoko. He touched the black bracelet with the words **white on his left hand. Raka always wears the bracelet every game to increase his confidence and good luck charms to avoid injury and show his best performance.
The match was about to start and his comrades started to walk out and line up in the hallway. Raka also immediately stood up and followed them. Beside them were already lined up players from Serpong City.
After all the good players from Serpong City and Maung Raja were ready, the referee with his 2 assistants led them walking into the stadium. The stadium with the same capacity of 500 people is half filled. The yellow color shows their fans from Serpong City and the blue color shows fans from Maung Raja.
A lively applause rang out as they walked into the field. Fans of Indonesian homeland football is indeed famous for its fanaticism. They are very crazy ball even 3rd league club like they also have quite a lot of supporters.
Prits
Maung Raja players immediately stormed forward to seize the ball. As per the instructions given by coach Handoko, they have to put pressure on Serpong City players. Having a points advantage before the break is a good thing because this will make players from Serpong City even more depressed.
The implementation of that strategy proved successful when Maung Raja got an inside pass after a player from Serpong City his pass led off the field away from the target. Hafiz did a throw-in. Anton who received the pass immediately kicked using his heel to the back and the ball was received by Raka.
Raka kicked back into the front corner which was immediately received by Hafiz. Pulling the guard from the opposing full-back to him, Hafiz turned around and passed back to Anton. Supporters from Maung Raja began to cheer louder when Anton with his speed broke into the penalty box making Serpong City's defense fall apart.
Stretching his hands out to get balance, he pulled his legs back making a gesture of shooting. With the outside of his feet the ball is kicked so that the direction of the ball becomes curved, the ball hits the crossbar hard.
Maung Raja supporters have sighed disappointed because the ball failed to enter the goal. But at that time the ball bounced back into the field and happened to lead right in front of Andre. With his header the ball was directed into the net, the Serpong City goalkeeper was still lying on the grass due to his efforts in chasing the ball that Anton fired.
The ball went into the goal without a fight from Serpong City. In the 15th minute the first league goal from Maung Raja was scored by Andre the player with the number 19. Andre ran to the corner of the field and did the celebration. The Maung Raja supporters shouted with enthusiasm while the Serpong City supporters threw scorn at Andre and pointed their thumbs down.
Huuuuu
At half-time to break the score while the match is 2 - 0. At that time Raka who was dribbling in tackles by Serpong City defenders who produce free kick. As a dead ball executor, Ahmad kicked the ball. A direct kick towards the goal was successfully pushed aside by the goalkeeper Serpong City.
The ball bounced onto the back of one of Serpong City's defenders who made it bounce back into the net. The goalkeeper from Serpong City felt like crying when the goal was scored.
Coach Handoko decided to replace Beto with Budi. He plans to take advantage of the aerial duels to score extra and Budi is the right option.
The game has entered the 65th minute and players from Serpong City have obtained 3 yellow cards. They had difficulty seizing the ball from Maung Raja so decided to use a rough movement.
As for Raka because her actions always threatened she had been violated 5 times after the start of the second round. Raka just sighed, too dangerous and he feared injury in his first game.
This time the ball was under Raka's guard, his position was outside the penalty box and both Alan and Budi were in tight guard. One path is in Raka's view and it leads into the air, he kicked the ball according to the guide path.
The ball soars high, the players in the penalty box chase the ball. When the ball that bounced began to give a sign to return to the ground, Budi who was running immediately jumped. His jump was very high, his forehead touching a ball that was dirty from the ground.
The ball goes into the cage and gets caught in the net. One goal was immediately given by Budi when he had just stepped on the field. Budi who fell immediately stood up and ran over to Raka and did high five. The surrounding comrades immediately joined in and hugged them.
3 - 0
Maung Raja took home 3 points in their first game. Meanwhile, the match between Batavia and Sleman United ended with a score of 1 - 2. A win for Sleman United. Group F is currently led by Maung Raja and Sleman United under him.
This is a good start.