Emmy stare at his system screen looking at the message he had received, it felt so nice to receive a message from the system again, he didn't even receive any quest against Straitgate College which simply means the system knew they would win the match but this, he decided to check the message first before thinking of the worst.
[New Quest Received]
[Your team should score at least a goal in this match]
[Reward:???]
"...."
Emmy wanted to scream and curse the system out loud, but he couldn't, because the referee has already blew his whistle and the match has began.
'The whole team should score at least a goal, it didn't even say me nor did it say we should win, this thing is telling me that we must score one goal even if we lose the match, damn, how does that make sense.'
He glanced at the four defenders of 36 Lions, then Kai before his eyes landed on Bolu, the only black boy among them, he's among the Law Enforcer strikers and Emmy have seen him play.
The two teams got into action as the match began, Elliott tossed the ball back to Joe at the midfield, he received the ball diligently before throwing a low short to the keeper who also received the ball and move it forward.
Their mission is simple in this match, they're not meant to score as many goals as they could, Emmy have explained to them that scoring a goal might be almost an impossible feat but not completely impossible, and what they needed to do is to make the match goalless as long as they could, to make it goalless till the full time ended. But that doesn't mean they should not score a goal if they have the opportunity to do so.
It's either they score or nobody score and take the match to penalty shootout, Emmy didn't mention anything about the keeper because he knew nothing about him but he told them about the 36 Lions keeper who lack skills and only enjoy the protection of the defenders, so they thought it might also be the case to this keeper so they're planning to end the match with penalty shootout.
Nathaniel, the keeper move the ball forward, out of the penalty box and when the opponent striker is close enough, he tossed it to the side where Kelly have received it, the boy burst forward through the left back, then when he got to the midfield, he curled a low pass to John as a midfielder came to him. John didn't control the ball as he made his first touch to Karim at the left wing.
He received the ball then dribble his attacker away with a simple body move before moving forward and made an arc cross to the center of the field just outside the opponent defense lane. Elliott was running towards the oncoming ball and just as he was close enough, he did a crazy volley as he kicked the flying ball downward which made it hit the ground, bounce off above the defenders and headed for the goal with an incredible speed.
But the keeper made a save with a calculated move as he jumped and caught the ball.
(Lindsay Academy are really going for goal at the early minutes, will they really manage to score a goal against the great Keeper of Royal Maniac Academy who have not conceded the least of goals)
The keeper had the ball in his hand, bounce it a few times before throwing it at Kunle who pass it to his nearest teammate. Kunle is the boy who had meet Emmy in the great hall of the dorm town on the first day of their exploration.
Armada received the ball and toss it to Moore at the right side, Elliott was moving carefully trying to hijack the ball from them, but it moves diligently among the defenders, showing their great sense of teamwork and how they've understand each others plays.
The four defenders didn't even make a sound as the ball flow from one person to another, and before they knew it, they're moving the ball to the midfield. Even with Karim joining Elliot to attack, the Four defenders failed to lose the ball.
"Damn, they didn't play like this in the local tournament."
Emmy thought.
But he knew they can't move the ball past the midfield, if they do, nobody will defend their keeper, only if they are confident in their keeper to save any counter attack or in their own ability to score a goal as they move forward.
And just as he had thought, they didn't move the ball past the midfield because Russ has charged forward as Kunle passed the ball to Armada. Russ with his ability moves like a bullet to intercept the pass but just as he got into 5 meters distance away from the ball, his speed slow down as his ability was suddenly deactivated, but that gave Elliott the opportunity to get the loose ball as he kicked it back to his teammate, Joe.
But instead of Joe receiving the ball, someone got in front of him and head the ball forward, Kai got the ball just behind Joe and started moving forward. Emmy run after him but the boy didn't move enough before throwing a pass down to Bright who received it in front of the defense lane, he dribble Nate and Hugo out of the way before getting into the penalty area and fire a shot straight at the right middle of the post which Nathaniel had saved with a punch, sending the ball out but it landed straight right in front of Bolu, the boy moved it to his left foot before shooting at the center of the post.
The keeper haven't gotten up from the previous save and everyone was about to shout goal but just at the last moment, a head came out of nowhere and nod the ball out of the field, straight to the corner.
(What an incredible save! Who did that)
It was Emmy, he had came at the last second with his Shadow Move skill and save the ball.