VFB (2 - 1) SGE – 81'
One on one with the keeper 12 yards away from the goal, the striker on the half volley shoots the ball. With power it's blasted on target to the goal, the keeper doesn't need to dive for it and just needs to stretch out both of his arms to spit the ball out.
He saves it by palming the ball out of play for a corner, Stuttgart players react cheer and hive up the keeper while the Frankfurt react in despair. The captain approaches Che and pulls his shirt by the collar.
''Don't go for the ball. We're trying to defend the goal. You almost fuckin cost us a goal.''
After whispering to him he pushes him away. The play carries on and a Frankfurt player header the ball over the goal. The keeper goes to the ground while holding his palm and calls for the medics, trying to time waste.
After being attended to, he kicks the goal kick out in the middle of the pitch. Yigit goes on an aerial duel with one of their midfielders, and he loses. But the ball is headed towards one of Stuttgart's defenders.
After getting the ball to his foot he immediately passes it to Petrovskyi who back heels it to Che and on his first touch he scoops it over the midfielder who tries to slide tackle him.
He starts a new attack starts accelerating towards their goal, he skips past one with his explosive pace, and another after they try to pull on his shirt. Kenmoe who has moved towards the middle from the right wing asks for the ball, and Che lays it off to him while running in the open space behind the center back.
Kenmoe plays the one two and makes the through ball for Che, but the defender is already on Che before he even got the ball. As soon as Che touches the ball, he feels the center backs heavy presence behind him.
He doesn't escape him but forces a shot with his right foot with the defender trying to block his shot, the ball scrapes past his block attempt. With not much power the ball rolls through the ground towards the goal.
It's more curl than power so the ball curls towards the outside of the goal and ball hits the outside post and goes out for a goal kick.
The keeper plays the ball to his center back and Frankfurt plan to build up from the back. They ping the ball around through the midfield and Stuttgart are pressured to have everyone behind the ball.
While on defense Che sees an opportunity to intercept the ball, but he is hesitant, he might put his team in danger again. His instincts are telling him to go but common sense is that he should stay put.
''Stay put! They're trying to lure you out!''
After Che hears that he stays put, regaining his consciousness somehow and looks around the pitch to get the sense of his team's defensive mindset. After realizing that their strategy won't work on Che, the start moving the ball towards the wings, trying to get crosses in.
Many crosses are sent in, high, low and even floated crosses and all of them are cleared out of the box.
Frankfurt persisting and Stuttgart resisting.
After many attempts one of the Frankfurt's center backs grab the ball and start pushing towards the box, when he gets to the right position he goes for a shot. Out of nowhere Che comes in sliding and steals the ball from the player.
He quickly gets up and starts running with the ball, the Frankfurt players weren't expecting the sudden attack and most of them are out of position.
He runs with the ball and has the space in front of him, while running with the ball on the corner of his eye, he sees Speidel with no defense on him down the left wing.
And the Frankfurt defender who stayed behind tries to catch up to Che, he knows that he'll get fouled, so he pulls a trivela of a through ball to Speidel. Just after he made the pass the defender purposefully fouls him by pull down his shoulder.
Che fall immediately on the grass, but it doesn't matter, Speidel is already through and has another player trying to catch up to him.
Speidel is through one on one, but he has both the defender closing in on him and the keeper coming out of his line. They both are closing in fast and Speidel might score the match decider.
When he gets into a reasonable range, he shoots the ball towards the bottom right corner and the keeper opens up his body in attempt to save the ball. The hits against his feet but continues to bounce towards the goal.
Speidel stops thinking the ball will go in but the Frankfurt play dashes past him chasing the ball.
The ball arrives on the goal line and the player reaches the ball, and he stops it before the ball crosses the line. And due to his moment goes in against the net, and realizing this Speidel starts running again towards the ball.
And the player attempts to return to the ball but slips, and Speidel gets closer, while the ball is on the line and not moving. When he finally regains his balance, he runs to the ball, but Speidel is already by the ball.
All he has to do is pass the ball in, but the player throws his body towards the ball and Speidel kicks the ball while trying to avoid him and jumps over him.
The ball hits the player's chest and goes to and the keeper takes and immediately passes it to his teammate.