Football System: Classic Number 10
Chapter 113: Blood and Tears

After the goal in the 63rd minute. The game of the Cananga Youth Mining team changed completely. They immediately hit the defense of the Batavia Fort FC team and make them overwhelmed and unable to breathe.

But ten minutes had passed, not to mention Cananga Youth Mining getting a gap to equalize. They can only make chances, but all those opportunities can still be thwarted by the defense of the Batavia Fort FC team, moreover the figure of Raffi Putra who became the nightmare figure of Cananga Youth Mining forward.

Cananga Youth mining again got a chance in the 70th minute. Axel Raihan really worked hard in the left wing of the Batavia Fort FC defense team, he gave a very good cross. Martin managed to head the ball, but the goalkeeper of the Batavia Fort FC team managed to catch it perfectly.

Coach Satria Hutama on the sidelines could not contain his nerves, the match left only 20 minutes more normal time and they still could not equalize at all. Coach Satria had to rack his brain to get out of this uncomfortable situation, he looked at the bench and decided to include a new player.

"Accad!" Coach Satria called one of his proteges Akbar.

Directly Akbar approached Coach Satria with a slightly tense face. "Yes Coach!"

"Keep warm-up, I'll include you in the match this time" Coach Satria's remark surprised Akbar.

Akbar immediately warmed up, while watching his colleagues who were struggling desperately on the field. Akbar so the thought, whether he can help the team when it has entered the field later and it bothers him a little. However, he will very rarely get an opportunity like this and Akbar feels that he must take advantage of this opportunity as well as possible.

After warming up for 3 minutes, Akbar was getting ready to enter the field. Just wait for the ball out of the field and the official team committee already know that Cananga Youth Mining will make their second player change.

The ball came out in the 74th minute. The assistant referee raised the substitution board, the number 12 player Akbar Rabani came in to replace the number 11 player, Fauzi.

Fauzi who saw it immediately moved to get off the field, he realized that today he did not show his best performance and even made a few mistakes while in the penalty box of the opposing team. Fauzi tosses with Akbar who replaces him and prays for Akbar to show his best performance on the pitch and help the team through this difficulty.

Before Akbar entered the field, Coach Satria Hutama gave a message to him. Coach Satria asks Akbar to deliver his message to Rizaldi. So, when entering the field, Akbar immediately ran towards Rizaldi and whispered Coach Satria's message to him.

Rizaldi was surprised to hear that. "You sure about that?" Akbar nodded his head, finally making Rizaldi look at Coach Satria and Coach Satria gave a face gesture that answered Rizaldi's question earlier.

"Alright then I will try to play in the Fauzi position" said Rizaldi.

The message from Coach Satria Hutama was, telling Rizaldi to play wider, replacing his position Fauzi. Coach Satria wants Rizaldi to play as a winger, but coach Satria still wants to maintain the role of Rizaldi as a Playmaker, it's just that his position was made slightly widened to avoid the figure of Raffi Putra which made him a little overwhelmed.

While Akbar Rabani entered to strengthen the team's midfield, indeed Akbar Rabani's position is a midfielder but he can also play as a winger because he has good speed.

The strategy changes thought by Coach Satria Hutama were directly applied by the Cananga Youth Mining team. Rizaldi who played a little wide made Raffi Putra who continued to mark him a little surprised. Raffi Putra could not immediately make a change of role, eventually he gave up completely to Full-back who faced Rizaldi directly.

But the problem is, the player entrusted by Raffi Putra to face Rizaldi Fatah can not hold the figure of Rizaldi. Rizaldi constantly exploits on the right side of the defense of the Batavia Fort FC team and even several times himself can do a stabbing movement into the defense of the Batavia Fort FC team.

The same thing happened in the 78th minute. Rizaldi managed to pass the full-back of the Batavia Fort FC team who guarded against him. Raffi Putra was late to do the cover and made Rizaldi managed to get the firing room. Luckily, the legs of Raffi Putra can still reach the ball kick Rizaldi Fatah and managed to make the ball change direction and make it just a corner kick for the Cananga Youth Mining team.

Therefore Raffi Putra became frustrated. "Don't be easy to pass like that! Do whatever it takes to stop him, don't let go of your eyes on him!"

When the corner, all Cananga Youth Mining players immediately swarmed the defense of the Batavia Fort FC team. Rizaldi Fatah continued to pay attention to the position of his friends, then he immediately released a pass into the penalty box.

Martin was headed, Martin immediately jumped to head the ball but unfortunately again Martin was defeated by Raffi Putra in an aerial duel. Martin is much taller than Raffi Putra. Martin with 170cm while Raffi Putra only 167cm, but the jump is very high because he knows the right technique to make the jump.

"Damn this guy!" Martin cursed in his heart, Martin immediately chased the ball that was still wild because of their duel earlier, but it turned out that the ball was successfully taken by Rizaldi who moved very fast.

Raffi Putra alone was immediately aghast in disbelief at the reaction speed displayed by Rizaldi. Rizaldi made one touch and prepared to take a kick from outside the penalty box.

Raffi Putra knows that this is very dangerous, there have been many goals created through a hard kick right foot Rizaldi from outside the penalty box. His instincts say so, if Raffi Putra fails to block Rizaldi from kicking, then there will definitely be a goal.

In a split second, Raffi saw the figure of his colleague who was about to stop Rizaldi. Raffi immediately shouted ordering his partner to stop Rizaldi in any way. "Sneak him! Don't let him kick the ball!" shouted Raffi Putra.

Hearing that Rizaldi became aware that there were players who wanted to stop him, but the player had already done a sliding tackle. Rizaldi still had time to avoid, but his right knee slightly tapped, the ball was moved to the left foot and Rizaldi tried to kick with his left foot but unfortunately because it was disturbed was hit the crossbar and only produced a goal kick for the Batavia Fort FC team.

After those intense few minutes, the Batavia Fort FC team tried to make the rhythm of the game slightly downhill and tried to master once again the course of the game. And at that moment also, Rizaldi felt something uncomfortable on his knee.

But Rizaldi did not care and he just kept running until in the end the rest of the time left only 2 minutes of extra time.

Batavia Fort FC players try to slow down time by making short passes in their defensive areas and at the time one of their players tries to put the ball back, Rizaldi managed to cut the ball and shocked the Batavia Fort FC team defender.

Rizaldi ran very fast, so fast even Raffi Putra could not reach him. Rizaldi continued to run up to the opposing team's penalty box and faced one-on-one with the opposing goalkeeper, when Rizaldi lifted his leg to do a kick, his knee immediately felt tremendous pain. Rizaldi even almost lost his balance and wanted to fall, which made him change his plan from taking a kick to giving a passing.

He did not know who was nearby to get a pass from him, and it was Martin who received the pass. Without a second thought Martin immediately wanted to take a kick, but Raffi Putra managed to first reach the ball and make a clearance that made all Cananga Youth Mining players unexpected and suspect it.

Rizaldi Fatah himself had fallen in the opponent's penalty box, he could not rise again and could only grimace in pain. He still did not know that his attempt to equalize had failed. Until in the end the referee blew a long whistle marking the end of the game and made all Cananga Youth Mining players fall limp.

Still no one realized that Rizaldi again suffered a knee injury. Until finally the captain of the opposing team, Raffi Putra approached Rizaldi Fatah and asked his condition.

Raffi Putra missed the celebration of their victory first, he tried to help Rizaldi who was in so much pain and he tried to tell this to the medical team. When the medical team arrived, Raffi Putra left Rizaldi and celebrated their team's victory tonight.

"Hey son are you okay?" Coach Satria immediately approached Rizaldi who was still covering his face with both hands.

"Are we losing coach?" rizaldi asked in a slightly sobbing and restrained voice.

Coach Satria was unable to answer him. He just kept quiet and patted his protege's head, Rizaldi understood all that and so the tears that came out of his eyes grew more and more intense as he realized all his efforts ended in defeat.