I'M Footballer
Chptr 41s.

In the dressing room of Estadio Municipal Arouca, more precisely the dressing room for the Arouca team. Sean and his partner are resting because the stamina in the match today is different from usual.

Although the game does not use high intensity, but because the brain continues to work also stamina is increasingly drained.

In the dressing room, Sean drinks water while listening to the coach's instructions for the 2nd round.

"Chapter 2 starts later, you have to be ready to defend, they have the ball kick off and will definitely control the ball and then press us."

"They wanted to level the score quickly so they wouldn't be too burdened going forward."

"Give it up to 70 minutes, then we can do another attack."

Coach Jorge Costa said the players understood what they were going to face in the second half.

Even though they had guessed it, they did not expect the coach would let players stay for so long.

Up to 70 minutes is a long time.

"Coach, doesn't it last 70 minutes?" Ask Santos.

"No, if they had the ball they would be exhausted, even if we were exhausted, but we had the advantage of goals. So you should be able to properly maintain stamina and manage so as not to get too easily exhausted."

"This 2nd Half is your stamina fight, if the first half, it's your brain fight." Reveal coach.

After a while, the rest was over. The players came back to the pitch a little bit tired.

With the kick off started by the Santa Clara team, Santa Clara immediately did the ball mastery and directly entered the Arouca team area.

As the coach said.

The players also set the space so as not to move too much.

The Santa Clara players who entered the Arouca defense continued to move in search of space.

Just the first minute of the 2nd half, the Santa Clara midfielder immediately made a breakthrough pass to the Santa Clara forward who was in the penalty box.

When the ball was about to reach the front striker Santa Clara, the Santa Clara attacker immediately picked up the ball and controlled it well.

He turned around and shot straight away without looking at the goal.

After the ball is kicked, the whistle sounds. Marks that the Santa Clara forward has been offside.

The ball that was kicked also did not save goalkeeper Arouca because the ball only hit the left goalpost.

The Santa Clara forward could only shake his hair because of the chances but was unable to score, let alone offside.

After a while, a free kick was also taken by goalkeeper Arouca.

The game on the Estadio Municipal Arouca green field continues.

With the continuous emphasis and ball possession of the Santa Clara team.

Santa Clara has had more than 5 shots in total.

Of the 5 shots there were on target and there were off targets.

Sometimes there are several passes that continue to frustrate forward Santa Clara because it is stuck offside.

The coach's instructions at the break also explained that it must be more sensitive to the breakthrough pass and do the offside trap.

Until the 65th minute in the second round, Santa Clara continued to pound without a goal created.

Although always have a chance, it can be failed by the goalkeeper or the goalposts and crossbar.

There are also kicks that are always blocked by the defending team player Arouca.

Until the 65th minute, Arouca's team really did not attack to the Santa Clara region and focus on defending.

In the 71st minute, Arouca's team made a change, where Alves came in to replace the already exhausted Valente who had to move continuously.

He plays as a defensive midfielder, which has to cover all the possible gaps that are empty.

After this change of player, Arouca really changed.

They went straight outside and didn't defend like in the early second half.

This of course surprised coach Carlos Pinto, he immediately ran to the sidelines to give instructions.

78 Minutes, the ball was controlled by Santos.

Santos walked while dribbling slowly looking for his colleague who kept moving looking for space.

With sweat already soaking down his clothes, Sean still continued to move.

His heart kept beating, but Sean felt very happy because today's match was really the first time he felt heavy pressure.

Entering the penalty box, Sean moves continuously in the gap of every Santa Clara player.

Santos who had the ball passed to the left side, where Nelsinho had gone up and filled Sean's post.

Nelsinho received a pass with good control.

Nelsinho looked at the box and saw a lot of players.

Nelsinho immediately cross into the box, he just hopes Beto get the ball.

The ball goes to the penalty box, the players in the penalty box move.

They hold each other's clothes to block and inhibit the opponent's movement.

Beto who first jumped to get the ball and made a header into the goal.

But the ball immediately turned because it was hit by the head of the opposing defender who was guarding Beto tight.

Corner kick was done by Santos.

Santos raised his hand asking his friend to be ready.

After that Santos sent a pass into the penalty box.

Jubal and Basto who are Arouca defenders also go up to maximize the chance of corner kick.

The corner pass now Santos finally reached the penalty box, but the one who headed the ball was not Arouca player but the defender of the Santa Clara team.

The wasted ball is now heading outside the penalty box, Ericson who is outside the penalty box directly controls the ball with his chest and volleyed directly.

The ball floated half in the air and towards the goal, when it will reach the goal, the ball hit the opposing player again and make it corner kick again.

Ericson can only regret his already good and accurate kick.

Santos raised his hand again and immediately made the pass to the penalty box again.

Beto immediately ran to pick up the ball because the ball Santos passed was only close to the near post.

Beto jumps and performs back headers.

The ball that was headed by Beto with the back header was pointing at the goal, but still slightly higher than the crossbar.

Opportunity for Arouca failed to be utilized to add goals.

The Santa Clara goalkeeper kicked the ball into the Santa Clara defender.

Then, Santa Clara did the ball mastery again and advanced little by little to enter the Arouca territory.