The ball was moving from left to right. From one half of the field to the other.
Mikel Soren was sharp on the defence. Always on his toes, reading every player that goes on, in the game.
Kazuma Raiden wasn't an issue for him, he was more concerned on stopping the person who was making the chances possible which was Sonny.
Sonny was passed the ball from Yagami at the edge of the box, he faked a pass to Yagami and instead dinked the ball into the 6 yard box for Raiden.
But Mikel Soren read the play completely.
"How does he keep doing this!" Sonny muttered to himself.
"He keeps reading my plays, I've gotta find another way around him before they score on us" he said, as he rushed back to help out in the defence.
Elias Vierra now with possession. Cool and calm, nutmegs Ren Alistair, and continues to push forward.
Mikel Soren, orders the defenders to push forward for the offside trap and watching Elias as he does his thing up the field.
"Elias, what a funny name" he muttered.
"We should be striving high in the U18 leagues by now. You helped me get through a lot when we were younger.
Both in all those math tests and when I got in trouble while we were on trial.... how much times have changed" he said before being passed the ball by the left back.
"Ay Soren, pass it here!" Elias exclaimed, with a grin on his face. He was starting to enjoy the game.
"You bet" Mikel Soren blurted, and passed the ball to Elias.
"A goal is coming, before this half ends... I just wonder which team would score" Mikel Soren thought as they continued to play.
The assistant coach who was tasked to manage the time for each half came forth to the touchline and informed the players that there was only 5 minutes left.
On the bench.
Coach Joe and his assistant, Maryanne were watching on closely.
"How do you think they are doing so far sir?" Maryanne asked.
Coach Joe glanced at Elias Vierra and then at Sonny. "The game hasn't started yet. Their true abilities are yet to show themselves.
The winner of this half will not influence the second half in any way" he said, as they continued to watch the game.
Team A were hit on the attack, shot after shot, after shot, all were being blocked or saved by the defenders and the keeper.
Damien wasn't getting involved nearly as much as anyone would've hoped.
The ball was crossed into the box, Damien leaped up but it was headed clear by the defender.
The ball landed into Alistair's feet. He didn't think twice, he drove forward instantly.
He looked to his right and saw Luis making a run. He played in a trivela pass with the outside of his right foot.
Luis controlled it and was 1 on 1 with the left back.
"I got you locked in now Luis, you're not getting past me this time" the left back chuckled ready for the challenge.
Luis tried a body feint, and then a step over, another step over, and another feint.
None of the gimmicky stuff worked so he decided to use his ability.
But the defender had the edge on him this time around and dispossessed him from the ball.
He passed it for Elias Vierra. Elias looked up. He saw Damien wide open. He decided not to pass to him.
He instead passed for Liam Williams, the right winger. A technical type player, who is known for his unmatched speed and one touch career ending technique.
Liam controlled the ball with his chest, and brought it down.
He took a few touches and saw the Team B right back, Riku Obsidian. One of the strongest and most physical players in the school.
He used to compete in wrestling tournaments when he was younger before getting into football.
"Oh nah! This guy will kill me if I try any trickery with him" Liam muttered, as he tried to read Viktor's pattern of movement.
"Ay buddy, just hand over the ball, so this won't be ugly" Viktor said, with a grin on his face.
Liam got annoyed, he did 1 step over, which made Viktor lunge in for a tackle.
But Liam shifted the ball with the outside of his right foot and into the space ahead of them, and was now with an abundance of space to run into.
Liam paced up the field. Almost leaving Viktor in the dust, but Viktor managed to recover.
As they approached the edge of the 18 yard box, everything began to slow down in Liam's head.
"If I try to cut in front of him right now... he'll win the ball from me. I can't shoot from here cause I'll probably miss and if I try to cross,
I'm very sure he'll just slide tackle me and leave me permanently impaled" he thought to himself as everyone on the field moved in slow motion in his head.
He was processing all possible outcomes because of how fast he was.
Only a handful of players could do this, and this method needed a big margin of concentration to master and execute.
But then he got an idea. "Ohh, I know what could work. But he may get injured from this" he said, as Viktor approached him aggressively.
Liam dragged the ball from his left foot to his right foot and used his special ability. "One touch"
Which allowed him to use any skill of his choosing which required only one touch to execute.
There were 3 variations of this, one touch, two touch and 3 touch.
The names speak for themselves, the user can use a skill which required either 1, 2 or 3 touches to execute when used.
Liam used one touch and used a "chop" to change his direction back to his left at the cost of very little loss in his momentum while maintaining possession of the ball.
the ball moved behind Viktor and into his left foot. Riku tried to stop so he could turn and face Liam but his momentum was too much, which caused him to fall on his back, hard into the ground.
"Oh sh*t" he muttered as he fell.
The chop got Liam into a perfect position for a shot.
He put his laces through the ball, and out of the reach of Team B's goal keeper and into the top left corner of the net.
"Gooooaaaalll!!" Team A players exclaimed as they rushed to celebrate with Liam.
Viktor, still on the floor with agony as they celebrated.
"How could I let him do something so obvious! F**k" he muttered, as he stood up.
"This is insane. Both our wing backs are dog sh*t" Ren Alistair said, as they returned to their positions.
"Come on, we've worked so hard in this first half, and we're still losing" Sonny thought to himself.
"Its alright guys, we managed to score then once, we sure can do it again, just calm down" Riku said, trying to calm the nerves of his teammates.
"No, Riku, just stop ok. We're all just probably gonna get subbed off in the second half, I mean just look at the bench, it's stacked.
and if we're lucky maybe 1 or 2 of us may get selected, which is highly unlikely-" Riku said but was cut off mid speech by the other centre back Arata Lune.
"That's enough Riku, just play the game" he said.
At the stands.
Kelly and Michelle were still watching, but Michelle was on her phone almost all through the game.
"Well this is pretty interesting, at this rate, I'm not sure any of them will get selected with this performance. Maybe that left winger.... what's his name.
Michelle, Michelle what's that left winger's name?" Kelly asked but Michelle was on her phone going through posts on Instagram.
"Michelle?!" Kelly exclaimed.
"Huh, oh, the who?" Michelle asked.
"The left winger"
"Ohhh, I think that's um... Yagami Noah. At least from what I've heard" she said.
"Hmm, Yagami Noah huh. He seems... pretty calm about the situation.
He's scored a goal today already... What else does he have up his sleeve today" Kelly muttered, while watching on.
The first half was already practically over. The bench big enough to form another team, eagerly waiting for their opportunity.
The game was turning hot. The players had started to show themselves.
To win a match like this, would take more than partial effort. And Sonny was beginning to see that