Chapitre 188: Long Balls

The penalty kick was set to be taken with Lakoviç standing over the ball at the penalty spot and Alexander jumping up and down on his goal line.

"The moment of truth is here, can Lakoviç send it home and put his team two goals up?" Jim said as soon as the referee blew his whistle.

Lakoviç stared at the ball for a while before he slowly closed up on it and drilled low toward the left side of the goalpost with Alexander glued to the middle of his goal line.

"He's put it away and Benfica are two goals up," Jim said as two of his teammates got closer to him to give him high fives.

"Two goals behind," Dave muttered with his arms crossed, he didn't have a nice look on his face.

After that goal, the referee blew his whistle twice to bring the match to an end as the added time had been exhausted.

"That's the end of the first half, pretty much what we expected don't you think, Steve?" Jim asked.