Football System: Classic Number 10
Chapter 78: The Next Game

The 2-3 victory over Jayapura Black Diamond one day ago was enough to make the Cananga Youth Mining will compete in the next phase, which is the round of 16.

The format of the knockout phase of I-Youth, the same as the format of the UEFA Europa League aka the league which is often paralleled by Indonesian football fans into the Friday Night League because it usually plays on Friday night Indonesia time. Or there are also those who call it the Pocong League, referring to the shape of the trophy that is similar to the pocong.

But even though the format is the same, there are a few changes and adjustments to it in I-Youth. If the EUFA Europa League has a home & away system and takes up to several months, in I-Youth is the short version.

In I-Youth there is no home & away system, everything will be over if they lose in the initial game. Their dream of winning I-Youth will be gone when they lose. A slight mistake can make them bury their dreams.

After they pass the various stages in the knockout phase, all teams will be drawn back as done by the Europa League. So they will face different opponents again and it will be a challenge for the players and the coaching team who concoct strategies for their respective teams.

Just as experienced by Cananga Youth Mining, if there is no re-draw system then they will meet Sugar Crossed FC in the last 16 matches. But because there is a draw system, they will not know their opponents before the draw is done.

And the draw will start tonight, exactly after all the action today goes. So right after dinner, the Cananga Youth Mining players gathered in one of the rooms in the hotel to witness the draw that would decide the fate of them all.

The 16 teams that made it into the last 16 including Cananga Youth Development and Sugar Crossed FC started to be plastered on the screen.

The Lampung FC Metro

Halmahera Black Star U - 17

The Batavia Fort FC U - 17

The Panthera Kerinci FC

The Sugar Crossed FC

The Cananga Youth Academy

Malang Ijen U - 17 FC

Surabaya Force Warlord FC's

The Bali Tera FC

Makassar Pinisi FC's

Mataram United FC's

Madura Umisale FC's

Don Bogor 1977 FC's

Jakseel Yankees FC

Sparta Bandung FC's

As usual, there are some officials who will draw tonight. If at the beginning of the knockout phase that does the drawing is one of the legendary footballers from Indonesia, namely Ponaryo Astaman. This time, it was Muhammad Ridwan's turn to be one of the officials to draw.

Muhammad Ridwan himself is also a legend in Indonesian football, he managed to bring the Indonesian national team to be the runner-up of the AFF cup in 2010. At that time, the Indonesian national team was handled by Coach Alfred Riedl who was famous for his will to successfully bulldoze his enemies to get to the final round. But unfortunately, Firman Utina cs at that time could not do much against the arch enemy that is Malaysia which at that time filled players such as Safee Sali.

Muhammad Ridwan continues to draw and already some teams already know who the opponent they will face. This time in the pot taken by Muhammad Ridwan there is a paper that reads Sugar Crossed FC. Since their club name is still not out as well, the Cananga Youth Mining players are starting to get a little nervous and some are starting to hope that they are not opponents of Sugar Crossed FC.

Apparently the prayers of the Cananga Youth Mining players were answered, not the name of their club that appeared. The name of the club is Metro Lampung FC. That way Sugar Crossed FC will face Metro Lampung FC in the last 16 which will be held on Thursday.

Then after that the name of the Cananga Youth Mining club has not emerged from the pot, until finally the name of the club Jaksel Yankees FC appeared. This is the last club to draw and the Cananga Youth players already know the answer to who will face Jaksel Yankees FC, that is, themselves.

"Do you know what to do?" Coach Satria suddenly made a sound, but the Cananga Youth Mining players remained silent in their silence.

Coach Satria stared at the faces of his foster children who looked like soldiers on the battlefield preparing to fight for the country, faith and family. Seeing that expression Coach Satria so smiled and nodded her head. "Good!" said it. "This is how the defending champion should be mentally, do not be merciless with any of his enemies because we are the king!"

After saying that, Coach Satria then displayed some profiles and team data of Jaksel Yankees FC in the past few games. Everything is quite complete from the formation they use or which players they should be aware of in the Jaksel Yankees FC team.

The formation used by the Jaksel Yankees is a formation that is often used by mid-table teams to anticipate the game of top teams, which is a very solid defense.5-2-3 is the key, the key, if their coach can take advantage of the potential of their students, maybe Jaksel Yankees can use the total footbal formation with the formation.

Their last victory over Rafles FC was thanks to their strong defense that is difficult to be penetrated by the enemy and they managed to take advantage of the negligence of the opposing team, so they managed to steal one goal from them and ensure a place in the last 16.

"If they had used the total footbal tactics often used by the orange team, we would have difficulty against this team. But they are focused on the defense and waiting for us to have a delay and they will score from that moment" Coach Satria said trying to explain the strategy used by Jaksel Yankees' team.

Coach Satria then began to show the names of players Jaksel Yankees FC along with his face, then he stopped when explaining one of the players Jaksel Yankees FC who he thought should be wary of carefully.

"Since they used quick counterattack tactics, their target while making an attack was this figure!" obviously Coach Satria while pointing to one of the Jaksel Yankees players.

That player is the number 10 on the Jaksel Yankees team. His name is Peter Chandra. He was a targetman of the Yankees Jaksel team and indeed he was the one who always started the attack from the Yankees Jaksel team.

Although Peter is a person to watch out for, the Cananga Youth Mining players are not too worried about the statistics shown by the machine when discussing the figure of Peter Chandra.

The statistics shown by the screen are very different from the statistics of Jayapura Black Diamond players, arguably the inj team is somewhat weaker than the Jayapura Black Diamond team.

But even though they are weaker, Coach Satria or the Cananga Youth Mining retainers do not want to underestimate their opponents and instead make them fall over because of their negligence. This is the knockout phase, the phase where the negligent can go home because of their negligence in reading the enemies they will face later.