The match quickly resumed, with their team almost getting a goal, team B got bolder and constantly looked for attacking options, but team A was pressing them fast and hard, suddenly Bryan was able to steal the ball from Sabak in the midfield before setting off on a lighting fast counterattack.
Team B defense had been too slow to react to the swift counter, as their play style was a high defensive line. Bryan swiftly passed into the path of Pozuelo, who swiftly controlled the ball and sent a sweeping pass to Thomas who was free from his markers.
Thomas chased after the ball and with a quick Step over he got past Uronen and with some leg movement he nutmegged Wouters before he could react.
Ryan quickly ran out of goal hoping to reach the ball before Thomas but unfortunately, he wasn't fast enough to match Thomas pace and ended up having the ball chipped over him and into the net.
GOAL!!!
2:0 AT '43'
*PHWEEEE**
The acting referee blew the whistle for half time.
******
The second half resumed with Vincent entering for Jose and Bogani for Wouters.
As Vincent entered the pitch clothes in the blue bib of the reserves he could the attention he was receiving from everyone more especially from the head coach Albert Stuivenberg on the side lines.
As Vincent ran towards the right side of the field having been instructed by the coach, waiting for the match to resume, he could feel his blood boiling. Although this wasn't a real match, for him this was his future on the line so he was both excited and nervous.
Jean stood over the ball and passed to Trossard who quickly passed the ball to Ruslan as the opposing teams forwards were charging at them ferociously.
Ruslan passed the ball to Pierre who was open, with a first touch he got past Sander who was marking him and with pace he approached deep into their half. Seeing no chance to penetrate, he passed back to Ruslan who was marked by Pozuelo. He tried to shake off Pozuelo with a body feint but he wasn't buying it, so he made a back pass to Bojan.
Bojan looked for viable options but was marked by Thomas, so he passed to Bogani who trapped the ball well as Samatta was on him. He guarded the ball well till he saw the open Sabak whom he quickly sent times cross to.
Sabak immediately passed to Ruslan who approaching and did a quick one-two combo with him getting past Bryan approaching infield Omar trusting Jere to mark Vincent left his position for Sabak blocking his route, so he made low pass to Vincent.
Vincent trapped the ball and with pace he slowly approached Jere who was marking him, with his LV 2 stepovers he dribbled past him but Jere with his pace caught up with him.
Vincent knowing that he would lose the ball in a body contest waited for him, then did a side chop getting behind him and into the box leaving him shocked.
Sweat poured down his face as his heart pounded in his chest. His lungs screamed for air as he got past Jere and into the box of team A.
Once in the box, Sebastien charged at him cautiously staying in between him, Jean and the goalie, a strategic position. Vincent seizing his indecision burst further down right and fired a powerful shot with all his strength towards the bottom left corner of the post.
Bizot being at the other side of the post made a fine dive and got his hand to it leading to a corner.
Vincent was shocked at his inability to score while the rest of the players and coaches were surprised by his skills and technique.
*******
At the side lines.
"He is good, a quality player for his age. He just seems to lack training and specialised training for his skills and position. This seems to be just his natural talent, truly wonderful with our training and grooming in a year he will be a deadly winger." Albert Stuivenberg thought to himself.
"Wonderful, I like him. So Witsel you can begin drafting the contract according to the previous arrangements, just add a compulsory one year play for us before he can move to another club, with a release clause which will be set on a later date." Albert stated to Witsel by his side.
"Also, for that Bogani kid draft a contract for him to the reserve team with a chance of him starting or being a substitute in future, depending on his ability. Also all terms can be renegotiated with both of them in future." He said to the grinning Witsel causing him to start chuckling.
"Alright boss. I told you my eyes and instinct are always on point." Witsel said smiling.
"Yeah, yeah. Go and prepare the contract." Albert said going back to his serious expression.
******
Meanwhile.
Trossard stood over the ball at the corner kick flag at the sound of the whistle, he sent a powerful cross into the box once his teammate arranged themselves.
Jean rose high above the rest and he headed the curling ball in the air towards the net. The ball spun heavily, spurned by Jean's header at the goal and into the net as Bizot who had dived a little late, couldn't manage to reach it in time.
GOAL!!! AT '67'
Eventually, the game continued with Trossard and Vincent creating danger but with the poor finishing from Team B's forwards the game was a stalemate. Trossard managed to score but it was an offside ball.
Team A managed to score another goal from the edge of the box by Pozuelo. Bogani shut down some goal scoring opportunities with Rubin and Joseph earning the recognition of his teammates but team A's offense was on point.
*PHWEEEE**
The match ended at 3:1 with team A the victor.
As everyone walked out the pitch to grab a bottle of water and rest, Trossard approached Vincent.
"Hey, Vincent am I right? Nice game, your quite skilled. You just have limited skills in your arsenal and you need to work on your physique and shot power. I believe coach will guide you better on more areas. You can come to me or some of my teammates, we could teach you one or two moves or techniques I guess. Haha." Trossard said to the Vincent smiling.
"Uhh.... thanks." Vincent said in English feeling awkward.
"Dude, chill everything's calm," he said while gulping down some water.
"Everyone huddle up!" Coach Cossey announced.
"Nice game everyone. I can see some of you are slacking off, well enjoy it while it last cause January 4th you are all starting training officially for the matches ahead. Vincent and Bogani see me in my office in 30 minutes." Head coach Albert announced before walking off.
Vincent and Bogani started getting nervous again rather than exhausted, they knew this was
what determined their future and career.