Football System: Classic Number 10
Chapter 52: Versus Buceros

Rizaldi had already prepared everything for today, the day where he would face a huge hurdle in his life. The day before, Rizaldi prepared some things for today.

After training to become a Trequarista, tomorrow Rizaldi did not relax much. For half a full day, he turned the tape recorder to classic matches. There are many classic matches that Rizaldi watched, one of which is a match between As Roma versus Lazio with the title Derby della Capitale or also called Derbi Capital.

Two clubs with a long history of rivalry that little make Rizaldi interested to peel it, so Rizaldi more focus on peeling the course of the game at that time. Especially how to play the figure of the prince of the capital, the gladiator, Francesco Totti.

The match was played in the 2001/2002 season. Roma managed to beat Lazio, their arch-rivals with a score of 1-5. One of his goals was scored by Francesco Totti in an incredible way.

It started with a quick counter-attack, the As Roma midfielder built up the attack very well. Then the ball was at the feet of Vincenzo Montella who was also one of the mainstay of As Roma at the time.

Vincenzo Montella saw Totti moving closer to him, without hesitation Montella gave a pass to Totti. Then the ball at Totti's feet, a little bit he made small movements and dribbled a little forward. At the moment before the beautiful goal was created, there was a lot of space and options that Totti could use at that time.

At that time Totti could return the ball to Montella who had run forward and prepared to receive a breakthrough pass from Totti. Or Totti chose the second option, which is to pass to the right side. On the right side was Olivier Dacourt who was without any escort at all.

But Totti's killer instinct says no to those two occasions, he prefers to make a pact with the devil. Totti had no one to suspect at all before, he made a chip shot towards the Lazio goal which at that time was escorted by Angelo Peruzzi.

Totti's chip shoot managed to dip sharply into the goal of Lazio guarded Angelo Peruzzi. Dive very beautiful like a rainbow that dives sharply into the waterfall Niagara. Maybe at that time Angelo Peruzzi was so upset with the goal, because the goal he felt like an amateur goalkeeper who had just played ball as a goalkeeper!

That beautiful goal must always be remembered by fans of Wolf Capital, i Giallorossi, i Lupi. And will also always be remembered by fans of the Prince of the Capital, Francesco Totti.

Even Rizaldi immediately fell in love with Totti's game, the more he saw Totti's classic matches, the more he fell in love with him. According to him, Totti is really a player who is full of talent, Rizaldi also likes when Totti took a harvest kick at the World Cup when defending the Italian national team.

Rizaldi wondered to himself. "Can I be a player like Totti?" A question that motivates him to do his best on match day.

Besides watching how to play Francesco Totti. Rizaldi also watched how to play the number 10 players in the past. From Alesandro Del Piero to Roberto Baggio.

Because at this moment, in the middle of this field. Rizaldi was very excited for today's game, and he can't wait to show his colleagues and enemies what he learned last night.

The kick-off ball starts from the Cananga Youth Mining. The slight nervousness of fear affected all of their heads, it was only natural that they were indeed in high pressure. They all inevitably have to win this match, although the statistics say something else for them.

During the first 10 minutes, the tempo of the game moves quite slowly. The Cananga Youth team played more area balls and played around their own penalty box and moved a bit off.

From the way the opposing team played impressed to let Mining Cananga Youth do short passing, it seems that the Buceros team underestimated them all. An annoyed face was shown by Martin who felt he did not accept being treated that way by Buceros.

"Take a look at you!" martin said then he tried to move forward alone, trying to pass some Buceros players.

"Martin! It's not time we attacked" Rizaldi tried to warn Martin, but Martin didn't listen.

Martin continued to advance forward, passing several Buceros players with ease. Martin was happy not to be out of his way, as he found it easy to get past Buceros players. However, there is one thing Martin is not aware of, which is that the Buceros player deliberately lets himself through.

Then Martin faced Steven Liando. Steven Liando, with the spiky hair he painted so dark red, it looks like a solar storm is raging on his head.

"Fucking buceros!" martin said as he looked at Steven Liando.

Liando smiled at Martin's arrival, as if waiting for Martin's arrival on him. "Give me all your abilities!" said it.

Then Martin tries to get past Steven Liando, he spins around Liando's body, but Liando can read what Martin wants to do. Liando simply shifted his body slightly, and made a clean tackle to the ball carried by Martin. Martin lost the ball and fell, the duel was clearly won by Steven Liando.

"The rest I leave to you!" said Steven Liando who kicked the ball far ahead, his face staring here Martin who fell under his feet.

Martin could only curse in his heart, he patted the pitch grass that did not know where they were and moved down to help the defense. As for Steven Liando, still standing still at his guard post, he was determined not to let anyone step past him today.

The ball was received by Alfian Rizal Sulistiawan. Alfian did a one-two passing with players around him, trying to tear apart Cananga's Mining midfield. But it is not an easy thing, there are Zaki Iskandar and Rizaldi Fatah there who are ready to block the ball that is trying to be streamed by the Buceros team.

Rizaldi continued to guard Alfian Rizal, occasionally Rizaldi tried to take the ball from him but still could not, but it was enough to trouble Alfian Rizal.

"Alfian is here!" from the unchecked side, Ananda Marska walked in. Alfian Rizal's ball was sent to Ananda Marska.

"Buck!" Rizaldi cursed, he immediately moved towards Ananda Marska because he knew how terrible it would be if he had touched the ball.

Ananda Marska relaxed, two people who confronted him including Rizaldi, he had passed with a very smooth movement. As smooth as star skin advertising bath soap. Ananda Marska looks left-right, scans the area, finds out what space she can use.

"Maxx I leave it to you!" Marska provided a breakthrough pass to the right-hand side of the Cananga Youth Mining defence.

Maxx Marko who operated in that position immediately easily got the ball, he dueled with the full-back Mining Cananga Youth but the acceleration from Maxx made it superior unreachable. Once inside the side of the penalty box, Maxx Marko gave a very measured horizontal cut back pass, passing several legs of Cananga Youth defenders.

"With this one is empty!' Ferdinand, who stood in front of goal, immediately tap-in and was too confident that the ball would come in.

Supporters of Cananga Mining have also started holding their heads, they are already prepared that it will be a goal. Including Keisha and Salma who were watching from the special stands, they had already covered their eyes so that they would not see the goal and assumed it had never happened.

But something different happened. Dery was not willing to give up letting Ferdinand score on the goal he just kept. Dery made a rescue by blocking the direction of the ball tap-in with his body, the ball went up because it hit Dery's body. Dery got ahead of Ferdinand to catch the ball hovering above, Dery jumped high and secured the ball and provided composure for his teammates and all their supporters.

"Saving 100 silver from Dery!" today's action comments screamed loudly at the rescue from Dery. Their supporters also cheered happily afterwards.

"Thurghhh!" Ferdinand held his head, slightly disappointed that he had wasted the golden opportunity earlier.

Ferdinand then retreated back with a feeling of slight disappointment and anger towards himself, seeing that Ananda Marska immediately approached him and gave Ferdinand a few words to make him calmer.

"Don't overthink Ferdinand, we still have plenty of opportunities! They are nothing and this team can be the barn for you again today" said Marska.

"really that? Then I'll be excited again!" Ferdinand came back as before, even his instinct to score was sharper than before, just from hearing a few words from Ananda Marska.

Rizaldi Fatah who heard their conversation directly, instantly shuddered in horror. Rizaldi shuddered in horror because of the ability of Ananda Marska who could make Ferdinand calm again and instead make him more excited. Rizaldi knew very well that such an ability was terrifying.

But he doesn't want to lose, he's determined to be the best, so he has to face it face-to-face.

Then the game returned as before, Buceros more often play defensively and wait for Cananga Youth to make small mistakes and then give them a lesson with a quick counter-attack scheme. Already several times they managed to do that, but still can not conquer Dery who was under the crossbar.

Noted, of the 7 shots that Buceros did, 3 of them were done by Ferdinand.3 kicks successfully on target and managed to save by Dery very nicely. Had it not been for the good performance from Dery today, there might have been 3 more goals in 30 minutes of this first half.

Coach Satria on the sidelines was no longer sitting in his seat. He stood up, shouting until his voice was almost gone to see his team playing badly. Coach Satria continued to carry out instructions from the sidelines, but because under pressure, the students were a bit difficult to follow the directions from him.

Arrive at minute 41. Through the individual movement of Ananda Marska who managed to pass several obstacles Cananga Youth players, Marska managed to enter the heart of the defense of the visitors. Marska does a beautiful tiki-taka that is often done by Barcelona FC Pep Guardiola era.

With tiki-taka they managed to dismantle the visitors' defense, leaving Ferdinand who returned to face Dery.

Ferdinand did a quick kick, then Dery stepped forward to dispel Ferdinand's kick. That is what Ferdinand is waiting for. Ferdinand had deliberately attracted Dery's attention so that he moved towards him, Dery who was late realized it could only curse. Ferdinand made a feint move and actually managed to fool Dery.

The empty goal, Dery who had fallen first, made Ferdinand easily throw a shot that made the ball flat very casually into the goal.

"Goooollllll!" Ferdinand immediately shouted and ran towards the supporters of Cananga Youth Mining, he did the celebration right in front of the Cananga Youth Mining supporters who were still silent because of the goal earlier.

Dery sat listlessly. Coach Satria scratched his head which actually did not itch because of the goal. 0-1 they were left behind. Until the long whistle of the first half was heard, the score did not change and made the atmosphere of the Cananga Youth Mining team horror, like a haunted house.

Their mission to win became even more difficult. In the second half, they had no choice but to score a goal back or not at all.

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