Greatest Of All Legends

Chapter 464: Starting Line-up Debut III

Chapter 464: Starting Line-up Debut III

*Fweeeeeeee*

The referee’s shrill whistle kicked off the game and the ball immediately began moving across the field.

Quickly putting aside the matter of social suicide that he faced and returning his focus back to the football game that had just kicked off, Jason was in time to receive the ball from Bentacur.

Before he could even move, a SPAL player came rushing at him, prompting his instincts to take over in that split second.

Moving as if he would try to carry the ball in field, Jason tricked the player into jumping into a tackle in that direction, but the moment the player took to the air, Jason was already flicking the ball to the left with his left leg and escaping the tackle.

The Uventus fans cheered in appreciation of such an exciting maneuver from Jason, but Jason paid them no attention as he was focused on the ball.

With one guy out of the way, Jason immediately made to burst forward, but he soon realized that he was hoping for too much.

The game had barely started and all the SPAL players except the one that had flown at him were still in their half, making it too difficult a mission to break past them.

However, Jason didn’t want to give up too quickly and still moved forward, only turning at the last minute to send the ball infield to Morata who quickly sent the ball back to the midfielders.

The attack didn’t blossom like Jason or the Uventus fans were expecting, but with such an exciting start to the game, they expected a lot from their players going forward.

#15th minute…

The match has settled into a comfortable one for the Uventus side and they had controlled the ball for the most part, leaving the SPAL players to do most of the chasing and the possession stats for the game so far was 72% for Uventus while SPAL were struggling with just 28%.

The few SPAL fans at the Allianz Arena were looking at their team with cautious faces as they knew that if the game continued like that for much longer then things would get bad soon for their side.

Already, Uventus was already making them run all over the pitch while smoothly evading their players tackles and were already taking shots at the SPAL goalkeeper, but perhaps because the SPAL player were still very energetic, they were doing enough to keep out the cautious Uventus team.

Jason had been especially having fun on the left flank with his marker

Already, he had four successful dribbles and this was with him not bursting forward on the attack because of how cautiously his teammates were playing, but he couldn’t blame them.

The forwards comprised mostly of players who could hold their ground, but the back four were mostly youth players who didn’t have much experience on the big stage and one mistake from them was all that was needed to put them on the back foot.

It wasn’t like the forwards and the midfielders didn’t trust their defenders either, but they were not too hasty to attack as they didn’t want to risk any problems in the defense.

Jason understood that, but he had had enough of the cautious gameplay and the moment the ball reached him once again, he took the opportunity to burst forward.

First tipping the ball in-between the legs of his marker before running behind to get the ball, Jason soon found himself surrounded by the SPAL players since his teammates weren’t drawing them away by making runs forward.

First moving the ball slightly to the left and then jumping over a player that came flying in, Jason continued his run towards the SPAL penalty box.

At this point, his teammates were already making runs forward to support him, but he was no longer able to stop his movements and raced towards rhe penalty box while holding off the third defender that came rushing at him.

While holding off the defender from the right, Jason finally made it to the penalty box, but with the guy he was holding off in the way, he couldn’t get a clear chance at goal, so he tried faking a shot with his left leg before quickly pulling the ball back and trying to send it behind him and to the right, successfully cutting back, however the SPAL defender had different plans in mind.

Then Jason had faked the shot, he had jumped in the way, but when Jason pulled the ball behind him, he realized he had been tricked and his hand instinctively reached out but because he had miscalculated earlier was almost falling and grabbing Jason’s hand, he pulled him down along wirh him, putting an end to Jason’s attacking efforts.

*Fweeeeeeeee*

The referee quickly came running over while pointing towards the penalty spot.

{Penalty!} The commentator confirmed for the Uventus fans a word they wanted to hear very much.

{The SPAL defender managed to put an end to the Uventus man’s splendid run, but it didn’t come without cost}

Ramsey quickly came over to help Jason up and on rising to his feet, Jason quickly patted himself down but not before giving a stink eye to the defender who had ruined his efforts thus far.

He had ended up getting a penalty for the team, but Jason already knew that there was no way he was going to take it and that was annoying for him when he had done literally all the work.

Not that he hated helping out, but that was when his own interests were not at stake and this time they were because Jason had wanted to end that run with a goal, or at least an attempt on goal, not falling on his ass and giving the goal scoring chance to someone who was hauling ass behind but not hauling it fast enough to be of any help.

“Tch,” Jason clicked his tongue as he started walking outside the box while Morata picked up the ball and placed it on the penalty spot according to the the pre-determined arrangements.