After a ten minutes break, players of both the team once again re-entered the field for the continuation of the second half.
Unlike their attitude in the first half, right now players of opposing team seemed rather calm and collected. It was like as if they were no longer bothered by the fact that they were tailing behind the opposing team by two goals.
Sure enough something had taken place in their locker room to have such vivid changes.
Meanwhile players of Kawasaki were overflowing with confidence. The strategic discussion had went well and most of them could already see them winning this game, so why wouldn't they be happy?
For his blunders in the first half, Yuya had been replaced. While the opposing team hadn't made any changes in their roster. They were going to play with the same set of players who had started this match.
Obviously no matter how politely the coach had carried out this decision, Yuya who was getting subbed off wasn't happy about this decision. More so when he had finally scored a goal.
"Hurry up, the match is about to start"
One of the fan who currently was rushing towards the stand urged her colleague who currently was carrying a large quantity of food in his hands to hurry up.
"Instead of urging me to hurry up, it would be more efficient to help me carry this load, wouldn't it?" Her colleague responded while sounding annoyed by her urging instead of helping him carry all this load by himself.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt"Urgh!! Just why do you need so much food?"
Sounding extremely annoyed, she reluctantly took some load off of him and sprinted towards the stands. By the time, she walked out of the hallway, she noticed that already more than five minutes had passed which caused her expression to turn bitter.
Because of her friends cravings, she had missed five minutes.
There in the field, Shun was about to perform a goal-kick. And by the looks of it, it seemed like he was going to sent the ball flying into the opposing half.
Would it be one of those tactics he had used in the international tournament where he would sent the ball flying towards Hiro?
The audience as they witnessed the scene taking place on the field were filled with anticipation. Tightly clutching onto their seats, they kept their eyes fixated on Shun.
But soon, most of them contorted their face out of disappointment as they witnessed him playing a short pass instead. Disappointed cries left out the mouth of many onlookers as a soft cry of disappointment echoed in the stands.
"Oh....., It seems like we were expecting for nothing"
Even the commentators expressed their disappointment.
No sooner had the ball left the post, Takumi the striker of the opposing team rushed towards the ball; trying to put pressure and intimidate Ehara.
Ehara being a skilled right back kept his composure as he easily handled the pressure from Takumi as if it wasn't a big deal.
Not only did he remain cool-headed upon facing Takumi, he even made a fool out of Takumi by passing the ball to his teammate right under the nose of Takumi.
Displaying his ability to remain calm under pressure, Ehara demonstrated why he was one of the core player of Kawasaki which right now was flooding with many skilled players.
Currently Hiro was deep within his half as well. However unlike before, he wasn't getting chased by multiple players. Instead players of the opposing team were positioning themselves well and bolstering their formation.
And Hiro being quite observant of his surrounding immediately noticed this tactical changes made by the opposing team. Still, it was rather convenient for him to operate from the deep since there weren't many players bugging him.
As long as it was his own half, he was free to move. Which in turn provided him better mobility and helped him maneuver his plays even better.
Goalscoring wasn't the only thing Hiro was good at. He was also a skilled passer and a chance creator.
Provide him a small gap and he would exploit that gap with his explosive dribbles and acceleration. And allowing him a shooting space was akin to inviting doom as well.
Thus, while facing Hiro, opposing team needed to be extra careful. And right now, they were fully displaying their carefulness without any error as well.
Whenever he tried to move up-field, multiple opposing players would come rushing towards him. And even when moving in his own half, a player would tail him like his shadow never leaving his side.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmThey were also careful while following him. Since he was a player of high stamina and endurance, if same player followed him all the time, he was bound to get exhausted which then would lead to a hole being created in their formation.
Thus, to prevent such scenario from happening, they were constantly changing players who tailed him. It was like each player was allocated a zone of their own.
And whenever he entered their zone, they would come rushing towards him while the previous player would vigilantly make way for the new player.
One could even say that it was an Anti-Hiro tactic. A tactic specially designed to stop Hiro.
But just like every other tactics which has its own strength and weaknesses, this tactic was bound to falter sooner or later as well. It was only a matter of time before it collapsed.
Although Hiro struggled for a while because of this tactic; given his failure to advance forward but Hiro was slowly adapting to this tactic and in fact he had already figured out several ways to break free through this cage like tactics that was specifically designed to imprison him.
'You've prepared well manager Kin'Receiving the ball from his teammate inside his own half Hiro thought as he felt amused by the tactic used by the opposing team's manager.
'But if you put too much emphasis on one single person then you're bound to lose the sight of the bigger picture'
Exactly as mentioned by Hiro, he wasn't the only skilled player in his team. He was cut above the rest but their were equally amazing players on his team who could carry the game.
Neglecting those players and focusing solely on him would definitely create opportunities for the rest of his teammates.