Tanaka chips the ball over Nomura, the ball hits the back of the net. Tanaka does a celebration to the mostly empty stands.
'Shit! There's only 15 minutes left and I need to score 2!'
Ren looks at Fujimura, analysing him. Ren thinks of how all the goals happened, then it clicked.
As he realises this Fujimura comes walking to Ren.
"Bad."
Ren stays quiet for a second, before saying;
"Fujimura, we're gonna be winning by half time!"
Fujimura chuckles "No."
Kickoff happens and Morita passes it around the front line. Itoshi passes it to Endo, who plays with the ball for a bit, before passing it again.
'I've got to wait for the next attack to start...'
After a minute Itoshi makes a run and Endo crosses it up.
Ren jogs to keep up with the attack.
'I gotta wait...'
Morita gets the ball on the edge of the box. "MORITA SHOT!!!"
Morita shoots, the ball curves to the top right corner, but it hits the crossbar and rebounds to Hayashi.
'Not now...'
Kubo jockeys Hayashi, Hayashi roulette's, but stops midway, he flicks it over his head. Hayashi overhead kicks it to Itoshi, who goes for a header.
But Matsumoto punches it down the middle.
It flies and lands... at Ren's feet.
'NOW!'
Ren slams his foot into the ball, almost like an explosion, it rockets towards the net.
"Power shot!"
Matsumoto manages to graze the ball, redirecting it to the post. But it hits off the post and in.
'YES!!!'
Ren makes it 3-2 in the 32nd minute.
Matsumoto looks terrified. Fujimura stands over him ominously.
'The key... Is patience... I wait for the chance to create itself! That's what fujimura does, he waits for the chance to come to him, but difference is he passes... But I score!'
Fujimura looks sweaty as kickoff happens.
Fujimura keeps the ball to himself, slowly progressing up the pitch.
Itoshi comes, Fujimura gets past him, Hayashi comes, Fujimura flicks him.
Morita comes, "mine!" He screams out, slide tackling.
'No! Morita you idiot!'
Fujimura jumps, flicking the ball up with him. Fujimura slams the ball forward, another perfectly timed Tanaka run.
Tanaka thinks he's receiving the ball.
'Fuck! We're gonna get scored on!'
...
Endo intercepts the ball!
Endo instantly takes off, sprinting. He runs forward, and manages to get past Fujimura.
Endo passes the ball to Ren, who collects it.
Ren is 30 yards out.
'I can't see any options!
Fuck... What should I-'
With no options in sight, Ren let instinct take over.
He slams the ball forward, it whizzes into the air.
"Wow!" Morita exclaims.
It flies towards the top right corner.
Matsumoto leaps... But it's too fast.
'Bang.'
In the 38th minute Ren scores a screamer to make the scoreline 3-3.
Ren does a kneeslide celebration into the corner flag.