Chapter 510 The Last Thirty Minutes
With the match nearing the seventieth minute now, Fred had to make way for Mateo who Norman had finally decided to bring into the ga.
They had gotten a couple of chances to seal the ga so far in this half but with Giovanni being the beast he was in between the sticks, those chances didn't turn out quite well.
He had just barely over thirty minutes left so he had to do sothing or risk losing this ga.
Mateo had gone through a lot of check ups before Norman made the decision to put him on the bench today.
There wouldn't have been any problem if he had decided to start him but he didn't believe that the winger was all that well and tried to see what he could do without him.
The winger was quickly making his way to the opposition box now as the ho fans got up from their seats to applaud him.
It was a standing ovation, one that was very well expected.
"Lyon pulled in Duncan and Mateo is now on the pitch for the ho team, the match was already interesting but it's about to take a whole new turn in the interesting route and I'm here for it." Jim sounded quite ecstatic as those words left his lips.
With Mateo now on the pitch, it was ti for Ferran to take the corner kick, another chance for them to see what they could do.
Just as the clock hit the seventieth minute, the referee blew his whistle and as soon as Ferran heard it, he slowly took two steps backward before he closed up on the ball and launched it into the box from the top.
He sent it flying a little closer to the edge of the box because that was exactly where Frankie was with just one player marking him, but just before the ball could get to the midfielder, it curled a little deeper into the box.
That caused it to completely evade Frankie and rino couldn't get his head on it either as one of the opposing defenders in the box got his head on the ball and sent it flying out a little to the right.
"It's cleared!"
That was exactly where Mateo had been waiting but he wasn't alone.
Just as he brought the ball down and trapped it near the edge of the box, the left back quickly rushed to him but the winger quickly drifted off a little to the right with the ball before firing it straight toward the goalpost.
"Mateo!"
Because of how the defender closed up on him, he was only able to aim for the top right-hand corner.
Giovanni was standing right there and even raised his left hand to try and stop it but there was no point as the ball ended up flying over the bar for a goal kick.
"Oh, he just couldn't get it on target, his first shot of the ga just a few seconds after coming on but it was a wasted effort," Steve comnted.
"The fans would have jumped off the stands if he had managed to pull that off."
'With Mateo now on the pitch, we should be able to get a second goal with our teamwork and a little bit of individual brilliance from him.'
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