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I love how this is the underdog / surprise story. Just like my country New Zealand in the world cup atm :p WE TIED WITH ITALY! WHAT THE HECK! Very good episode though, it was exactly what I had been waiting many episodes for. Got quite into it.

nice a goal from the underdog tsubaki the wait for the next episode is killing me

FUCK YEAH TSUBAKI!!!

THIS HAS MADE MY FUCKING DAY!!!

They really just wasted the second half on reactions, flash-backs, and slow motion. Shame, because the first half was brilliant. Seeing Gino fired up was awesome. I'm tired of Tsubaki and Koshi.

Bumped down from an 8 to a 6.

Did I really...?

Yes you did Tsubaki, and it was marvelous.
Oji was great as ever.

It was perfect! You know, the manga has them actually speaking in Japanese...

GOOOOAAAALLLL !!!

Great counterattack begin from Kiyokawa to Gino, continued with a nice trough pass to Akasaki. He shoots, Sera failed to get the rebound and Tsubaki makes a great coming and score to the open goal. A really thrilling moment there, I already expected that they going to exploit Carlos's hole.

Anyways, does anyone realize that Takumi's tactic is like almost all the tactics that small teams use against big teams in the World Cup ? (Lure the opponent in with much possesion and do a defesive play with fast counterattack).

There's 15 minutes left and could ETU hang on ?
VS Nagoya gonna be the longest match in this anime, 4 episodes.



Well, I pity french national team, after barely qualified to the world cup, a draw against uruguay, a defeat against mexico, anelka getting sent home, Evra and the players boycotted the training session, FFF president steps down, it's really a big problem while they must face the host country in the next match

It was a good episode, but just too much recap at the beginning of the episode.

They were really laying it on thick about that goal, to the point that I couldn't take it seriously most of the time. And wtf, that scene from the half-time talk about Pepe and Carlos totally doesn't feel like it actually happened after Tastumi was all like 'yeah, just do the same crap you've been doing!' last episode.

Now that I'm done complaining, TSUBAKI <3 The dork pulled through.
Tatsumi totally doesn't feel like the protagonist. At least during games, it's commendable how the screentime gets spread around the characters. The counterattack was laid out well, hopefully that wasn't just the apex of what this series has to offer for plays. This game needs to end soon so we can have some slice-of-life again.

Nice counter. Interesting how they sat back all this time just to wait for that one moment when Carlos moved up for the attack. This match should not be 4 eps long.

And I am going to punch something if I have to hear more about this reporter and her thoughts about her career. The most useless part written in series.



The French team have some deep issues that they need to work out. Should have named their new coach a while ago since they knew how was getting the job next. Sure all these problems wouldn't have happened.

Nothing can be weaker and less respectful than the players of our national team. Hope that the leaders of this masquerade (Evra, Gallas, Abidal, Ribery - and Malouda, even if he's the only outstanding French player in this WC -) will be benched tomorrow. They deserve it.

That said, I must say that today's episode was interesting although kinda slow. The developments were expected but relatively well executed. On a purely graphical side though, the 3D is bothering me more and more as it's badly integrated with the drawings and can be very distracting at times. Well, the animation's not really great overall.

Robbed by De Rossi's dive, pity.

Looks like ETU might win this time.

Lmao. Well, your national team might be much better if they had Tatsumi as coach XD.

Anyone else think that this ep has a lot of recaps? 3 mins of recap b4 OP and slightly more after the first half on the ep. Little content covered... seems like this soccer match will be quite lasting.

Btw anyone noticed the preview for the next ep, where they put "Fin" below the episode number 13?

I know eh :/

Its all good and stuff that Tsubaki scored a goal, but there is just to much talking, its really slowing the pace of the game, and the anime. This game as been going on for 4 ep and Giant Killing ends in 14. Its just going to dam slow. Think I'll start reading the manga, cause I'm getting disappointed at the moment with how the anime is going. I was really excited about this game, but now I just can't get into it.

That was a pretty nice goal from Tsubaki, I loved it. Maybe next ep too....
It's indeed slowed down after the goal, still I like where this goes. One episode and we will be at halfway and probably the match will be over~

Man I enjoyed that alot, the music especially helps to bring the mood of celebration at the end. Its moments like this though that make sports anime so addictive.

Whoa! A 6? I mean, if an episode disappointed me, I would just bring it down one vote, but two? Doesn't that seem a little harsh?

It was a long time coming. The past few episodes have been very slow and underwhelming. I thought I had had it at a 7 already, but I didn't.