Chapter 112: First Start V


    The ball flew past the Santa ra goalkeeper’s outstretched hand and flew across the front of the goal, seemingly going out of y when Moussa Marega appeared in everyone’s view and lunged for the ball with an outstretched foot.


    Moussa Marega’s outstretched foot flew at the ball as everyone held their breath and awaited what seemed inevitable but to everyone’s surprise, Moussa Marega’s outstretched foot missed the ball by what seemed like mere inches and the ball continued across the front of the goal.


    Seeing Moussa Marega miss the ball, everyone thought the ball would safely roll away from the front of Santa ra’s goal and the Porto fans were already groaning in exasperation when they suddenly saw Jason appear from behind one of Santa ra’s yers in their 18-yard box and lunge for the ball in the same manner as Moussa Marega earlier.


    But unlike Marega, Jason’s outstretched foot managed to touch the ball this time and changed the direction of the ball rolling across the front of the goal to rolling towards the goal, yet just before the Porto yers and fans could throw up their hands in jubtion, a Santa ra yer appeared behind the ball at thest moment, chasing it down for all he was worth as it rolled toward his team’s goal.


    To the Porto yers and fans’ dismay, the Santa ra yer’s efforts paid off and he managed to swing his leg at the ball just before it rolled onto the goal line and cleared the ball away for a corner.


    The stadium erupted with cheers and apuse for the Santa ra yer who had managed to just barely save his team from falling into a deeper ditch than the one they were already in.


    Jason who had sat upid back down with a hand across his forehead as he rued the missed chance at doubling the team’s lead and doubling up his goal tally in the match.


    To say he was disappointed would be an understatement, but the next moment a big grin appeared on his face, ‘I wouldn’t love this sport if things like this didn’t happen,’ he thought with an excited yet wry smile on his face as he sat up.


    Romario Baro who had just arrived in the Santa ra 18yard box walked up to Jason and held out his hand to Jason.


    Jason grabbed Baro’s hand and was pulled up by him as Romario said to him,


    “Nice one bro,”


    Jason simply nodded and moved between some defenders of the Santa ra team, looking for a good location to await the cross from the corner kick.


    Alex Telles ran over to the left corner and ced the ball on the line before stepping back and awaiting the whistle while intently watching the struggle between the Porto yers and the Santa ra yers in the Santa ra penalty area.


    *Fweeeeeeee*


    Alex Telles ran for the ball and swung it into the penalty box in an out-swinging cross.


    Jason was immediately surprised to see the ball heading for him especially when he was standing as far away from the Santa ra goal and was almost outside the Santa ra 18-yard box.


    Jason had always known that his heading wasn’t his strongest point, thus he had stayed farther away from the goal to allow for other members of the team who were stronger in the air than he was to fight for the ball, so seeing the balling at him was quite surprising and a bit unnerving, especially since he was so far away from the goal.


    But he didn’t lose hisposure and leaped off the ground, intending to direct the ball towards another yer as he did not trust himself to generate enough power on the ball to score a header from how far out he was.


    While mid-air, Jason directed the ball toward the nearest yellow Porto ‘Away’ jersey that he could see which happened to be the team captain.


    Pepe trapped the ball that came at him on his chest without skipping a beat at the unexpected pass before he suddenly turned and shot the ball at the Santa ra goal before it could touch the floor.


    The Santa ra goalkeeper was lucky to be close to where Pepe had shot the ball at and quickly put out his hand to block the ball that rushed at him, just barely managing to keep it out of his team’s goal, but the ball bounced back into y just in front of the Santa ra goal.


    Before the Santa ra yers could make an effort to try and clear the ball, Ze Luis whom the ballnded just in front of sent the ball flying back from where it came, but this time the ball mmed past the goalkeeper who was rooted to the spot and sent the bulging.


    Ze Luis didn’t need anyone to tell him before he took off towards the sidelines, his teammates following after him.


    {They’ve done it!}


    {On the cusp of half-time, they’ve doubled their lead!}


    {With that shot, Porto has changed the points of discussion at half-time for both teams and further solidified their lead!}


    {Santa ra now have a mountain to climb and it’s a dangerous one too!} As usual, thementator just wouldn’t stay quiet and did his job ofmenting on the game and stirring up the emotions of the fans, but no one cared at that moment.


    The Porto fans were too busy rejoicing and the Santa ra fans were groaning in annoyance at having gone behind just after pulling off an almost magical on-line clearance, just a minute earlier.


    Was this team trying to give them a heart attack?


    The team had gotten their hopes up after keeping out an almost surefire goal only to concede a totally unexpected goal the very next minute.


    ‘What was the fu**ing point?’ The fans thought and had the sudden intrusive thought to grab their team’s yers and give them a few good ps, but they stayed glued to their seats and did not act on their thoughts.


    Some of them even still held hope that their team could pull off aeback in the second half.


    Of course, it wasn’t a usible idea, but a person could at least hope, right?