Greatest Of All Legends-Chapter 582 - 3rd National Appearance II

Chapter 582: 3rd National Appearance II

The Benin right back chipped the ball forward, aiming a pass towards his team’s left winger, who was making a run forward.

{Interesting pass over the top}

The Benin left winger ran for the ball while his teammates also began running forward, hoping to support him as soon as he could bring the ball under control.

Troost-Ekong was already moving to cut off the pass as Aina was out of position, but it was clear that Troost-Ekong would not reach the ball in time as the Benin left winger was much closer to the ball’s landing spot.

However, Troost-Ekong had already scanned across the field and saw that his teammates were on their way to support him, so all he had to do was stall for time.

It might have been a difficult task if he was all alone at the back, but there were still two other defenders covering the center for him, so he could focus on slowing down his opponent.

The ball soon came to the ground near the Benin left winger and he skilfully caught it on his leg and brought it down before facing off against Troost-Ekong.

The Nigerian center back squared off against his opponent, positioning himself in a way that wouldn’t allow the man to be able to cut in.

{What will he do here? He’s up against a tough opponent. Will he try to break through, or does the counterattack end here?}

The Benin left winger was still high off the excitement and did not want to let go of this chance. Forgoing the smarter decision to send a pass back to the center of the pitch where his teammates were arriving, he chose to go down the open path down the flank.

Bursting forward with the ball, he tried to beat Troost-Ekong for pace, but the Nigerian defender stayed on him, doing his best to not allow him to burst past him, but the Benin winger was ultimately faster and after a while managed to finally beat him with pace, but Troost-Ekong had forced him to far down the left flank and the line was only a few meters away leaving him only able to either cross the ball or turn back.

Not wanting to face off against Troost-Ekong again, he decided to send a cross into the center where his teammates were arriving, but the two other Nigerian defenders were prepared.

Zaidu rushed forward to obstruct the Benin players rushing in while Leon went for the ball and managed to reach it first, catching it off his head and clearing it out of the penalty box.

The ball flew over the Benin players who were just arriving and landed in front of Ndidi who immediately took control of the ball and turned back.

After rushing back, he was a bit out of breath, neither did he trust his agility to start a counter attack and thus planned to send the ball forward instead of taking it forward by himself.

Jason had moved wide, freeing himself to receive a pass, and Ndidi didn’t hesitate to send the ball his way as he was the freest and nearest teammate.

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Before the ball even reached Jason, his marker was already behind him, bumping into him to throw him off balance, but Jason held strong until he received the ball.

On receiving the ball, he immediately made as if to turn towards the left with the ball while shielding the ball, and his marker followed his actions, wanting to block him off, but to his surprise, Jason hadn’t moved the ball and instead switched directions midway and turned back towards the right.

Jason’s marker tried to follow Jason’s movements and switch directions as well,l but that ended with him falling on his behind due to losing his footing while Jason who had turned, swiftly pulled away, not even giving him a glance.

The crowd shouted wildly as they watched Jason send one defender off his feet just minutes after the game kicked off.

The fact that this also started a counter also caused the Nigerian fans to shout louder while Jason, who had moved the ball forward a few yards, picked out Iwobi who was making a run down the left flank, and immediately sent a through pass forward.

{He’s sent the ball down the left and into Iwobi’s path}

{What’s it going to be? A cross or an attempt to cut in with the ball?} the commentator asked no one in particular as Iwobi caught up to the ball and raced forward with it, his marker trailing behind him.

On reaching the left side of the Benin 18-yard box, Iwobi spotted Osimen in the center and sent a high cross at the striker.

{Osimen in the center!? Header!} The commentator shouted as Osimen beat his marker to the air and got his head to the ball first sending it at the goal.

*CLANG!*

{Oh! The bar is reverberating, but the ball has bounced back into play!} the commentator shouted as the ball bounced off the bar and back into play, but before any Nigerian player could get to it, a Benin defender tried to clear it back into play, not wanting to concede a corner, but he miskicked slightly and the ball didn’t fly very far and instead fell to Jason who was just outside the penalty box.

Trapping the ball first, Jason then pushed the ball forward to kicking length as if he aimed to shoot.

A Benin defender immediately jumped into his path when he saw Jason swinging at the ball, but Jason faked a shot instead and sent a pass to the right, where Iwobi had come charging in.

Not taking a touch on the ball, Iwobi immediately hit the ball and sent it curling beautifully at the top right corner of the Benin goal, but the ball curved a little too much and allowed the Benin goalkeeper to get a hand to it and punch it over the post.

{What a save! What a save! He was flying just to reach that attempt!}

{Somehow Benin are not behind yet after two beautiful attempts from the Supa Eagles!}

{If they can keep up this kind of sharpness in attack, the Benin team might find it hard to keep this game level for much longer!}