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| With the first goal conceded to Musashino, the Esperion team is experiencing a massive breakdown in both teamwork and leadership. The match resumes, and just like their night training sessions, the Esperion team is putting their practice into play. But Musashino is just as quick to counterattack, and Tachibana getting the ball's possession against his former teammates' high press, he's able to push himself. As for Aoi, he's the person already to look out for making the impossible possible, and this results in their hopeful goal to etch a tie. The match restarts, and Tachibana's feels like he's on Cloud Nine to face his old team with confidence, and that fear is alleviated no more. Unfortunately for Aoi, he was offside to make the goal shoot, but his obsession to score is back, and other than Tachibana, he's now on their radar as well as the team's MVP. And this initates a causal effect for Musashino to change their tactics, with their high press formation inched up even further with all 10 players on the field, always creating offsides and giving them an even lesser chance to score. An easy feat to say, but this tactic allows Kaneda to get Musashino's 2nd goal from Esperion's constant weakness of teamwork exploited to no end. A high line net with a counter, Musashino's teamwork is as best as it could be to confuse Esperion more, and Kaneda's request to counter with Togashi and Takeshima leads to a missed goal thanks to Kuroda, but he struck with the goal post too hard to be left unconscious. So, how would this fierce match end? |
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| Broooo, this ep gaved chills every moment. Tbh kuroda got hurt uff reminded me of 11th ep of ryman's club lol. It's 2/1 now, lets wait how they are gonna catchup!!! |
JayPatel1304Sep 10, 2022 9:08 AM
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| Nice assist from Aoi, other than that Eseperion got their ass handled again. |
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| This episode was just so intense, truly gripping... time flew faster and before I know it, Kuroda was injured. This is why I love football, and Ao Ashi gives justice to The Beautiful Game! |
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| Hana really should've been join the girl gang, watching and supporting them all to the fullest mode already. Still, considering the previously case, and also obviously the perfect timing that need to be save, for another hyped up episode, next week. So, understandable, let's just wait and see next! |
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| Tachibana's incredible move there was pretty well-animated and what an amazing goal he scored. It's pretty amazing how the tension was present throughout the episode. |
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| Kaneda's asspulls, man, come the fudge on... And the way they're forcing Hana in is just really painful. Please stop. |
Rukodaime91 said: Ya sorry my mistake uffJayPatel1304 said: Broooo, this ep gaved chills every moment. Tbh kuroda got hurt uff reminded me of 11th ep of ryman's club lol. It's 3/1 now, lets wait how they are gonna catchup!!! It's 2-1 because Kuroda managed to stop the ball. |
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| That was one hell of a goal by Tachibana and I was waiting for someone to score a goal like that. However, Kaneda's obsession for scoring is something else as he scores another goal making it 2-1 Musashino and it would have been 3-1 if Kuroda hadn't made that save. Now that Kuroda is out, Esperion heads into the half down two goals so they need a new game plan. |
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| Whan an intense episode! I loved seeing Tachibana go all out and Aoi pushing forward. Props to Kuroda for not letting the ball into the goal, it was a reckless play but surely meant something to Togashi. I'm eager to see how the match will develop with only two episodes left. |
| Interesting. So I think Esperion's big weakness is of course how they all fucking hate each other and can barely work together, but another thing that was really pointed with how the other coach said "they have a weakness we can exploit" right after Aoi lost procession of the ball in front of the net. Aoi went and doubled down on the being a forward thing followed by him fumbling the ball twice (I think one was offside but w/e). Fukuda said you were a shit forward for a reason my guy. I think they are going to have Aoi realize he's much better suited as play maker than always being the one to shoot. Also idk the rules of soccer for shit but Tachibana making a crazy kick like that about 1 foot in front of the net feels like something that should not be allowed given how massive a soccer net is lol. I'm sure it's legal tho. |
Tahmim97 said: I understand that in some game's, you're just going to have to dig deep to find a way to win, but Esperion being the more skilled and experienced team, I don't understand why they're playing like they're so inferior to Musashino 🤔 I get that's the whole point of the plot, but it really bugs me to see them so flustered out there. They're part of Esperion for a reason dammit! Playing direct football =/= being inferior. In fact they push their FB and DM higher leaving the two CB behind to have numerical advantage in midfield. Musashino kinda reminds me of Brentford. They are both low level team playing high press and very dangerous with their counter because of their forward Toney (Kaneda). If Esperion insist of playing possession football it'll hard to break the high press and they would get humiliated like United. If this is team A of course they'd play their style, but we are talking about team B who is mentally low and disoriented with several players having dispute with each other (Togashi and Takeshima still can't link up with each other).. |
| “You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want.” |
| Tachibana casually doing a front flip. They're still behind but I can see some kind of change mentality wise in the 15-minute break. Let's see how they'll adapt to the current situation. It's obvious that they'd win. If not, then it'll be interesting to see how this will develop. |
   “You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you!” ' |
| Next episode Fukuda's team talk |
| “You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want.” |
| One of the best eps in awhile tbh I was starting to lose faith in this show lol but that ep was amazing |
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| Anyone who's ever been in an athletic slump knows just how amazing it feels when you finally break free of it. Glad to see Tachibana is back and, and back in style at that. Did not expect that bicycle kick. Not too much to say tactically. Esperion is countering Musashinos high press with a high press of their own. The allegedly more skilled Esperion should really be wiping the floor with them if that's the case, especially with Aoi's Fifa vision Cheat mode, but whatever, plot gotta plot I suppose. Great save by Kuroda at the end. Maximum effort full send. Guess this is gonna redeem him in the eyes of Togashi leading the team to finally put their differences behind them and work together but we'll just have to see.  Also WTF is this ref? My boi was 100000% onside here! Terrible call, simple as that. Aoi's right to be mad and I've seen people throw hands for less. In fact if it were me I'd get the bois together and wait for him in the parking lot....to uh..."talk" it out. |
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| 1 point advantage again! now the harder became more extreme! i wonder what's the plan of esperion B!?!? this is so hype! 5/5. |
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| Tachibana’s goal was insane , first time I see something like this in a football anime lol |
| Kudos to Tachibana for redeeming himself but Ashito is starting to get into my nerves. He kept pushing himself to score because he gets hyped when Tachibana but it's having an opposite on their overall gameplay as a team. He's so stubborn and just do what he wants when he is on field. He's just basically 'Asta' playing soccer. |
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| My boy finally scored! That sure was a goal with tons of attitude from both Tachibana and Ashito. Such a shame Esperion's goalkeeper can't catch shit tho. |
| better than the last ep, Tachibana's goal was pretty predicable as soon as we found out it was his old team. |
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| Let's gooo!!! Tachibana's finally in the right head space now! Aoi's assist and Tachibana's insane movement fetched Esperion their first goal. Musashino's coach has also recognized Aoi as a playmaker for Esperion. So Aoi wants to play as a forward while still being a full-back? His obsession with landing at least one goal in this match seems to strongly indicate that he seriously wants to play at least a few roles as a forward. Damn, Hana's also here. Looks like she still cares about Aoi and this match even though she seems to still be mad at him. Fukuda is also here now. Kaneda is really going hard in this match. As much as I hate his cockiness, I can't deny that he's playing really well and pretty much carrying Musashino alongside Muto. Togashi was still trying to tackle him but idk what Takeshima is doing. If both Togashi and Takeshima tackle him he wouldn't have been able to land goals this easily imo. Kuroda came in clutch and saved the goal but looks like he'll be out for the second half of the match. Musashino again got the lead on Esperion. Aoi needs to take charge of his team now. Didn't really understand the offside rule. Can someone please care to explain lol? |
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lehuy0210 said: DeonX said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offside_(association_football)Let's gooo!!! Tachibana's finally in the right head space now! Aoi's assist and Tachibana's insane movement fetched Esperion their first goal. Musashino's coach has also recognized Aoi as a playmaker for Esperion. So Aoi wants to play as a forward while still being a full-back? His obsession with landing at least one goal in this match seems to strongly indicate that he seriously wants to play at least a few roles as a forward. Damn, Hana's also here. Looks like she still cares about Aoi and this match even though she seems to still be mad at him. Fukuda is also here now. Kaneda is really going hard in this match. As much as I hate his cockiness, I can't deny that he's playing really well and pretty much carrying Musashino alongside Muto. Togashi was still trying to tackle him but idk what Takeshima is doing. If both Togashi and Takeshima tackle him he wouldn't have been able to land goals this easily imo. Kuroda came in clutch and saved the goal but looks like he'll be out for the second half of the match. Musashino again got the lead on Esperion. Aoi needs to take charge of his team now. Didn't really understand the offside rule. Can someone please care to explain lol? tldr: The law states that a player is in an offside position if any of their body parts, except the hands and arms, are in the opponents' half of the pitch, and closer to the opponents' goal line than both the ball and the second-last opponent (the last opponent is usually, but not necessarily, the goalkeeper). No sure if I got all of that but thanks for the info! |
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| Tachibana and that goal.. for sure those acrobatics are anime-exclusive lol. Though didn't make much difference, as Kaneda indeed scored and now they're in lead. Moreover it would've been 3 to 1 if it wasn't for Kuroda's brave save at the last moment. |
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| That Tachibana goal sakuga was amazing. One of my fav episodes |
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