Chapter 248 Tight spaces
After that goal, players of Jordan became even more aggressive towards Hiro. In a span of 25 minutes after they conceded the first goal of the match, they fouled Hiro eight times already.
However even after getting fouled that many times, as if his body was made up of steel, Hiro was still standing upright in the pitch looking totally fine.
"Those players of Jordan are playing quite dirty" grumbled one of the spectators.
"Aren't they afraid of getting sent off?"
"In just 25 minutes they've accumulated four yellow cards. If their assaults continues, soon...sigh!! one of them will get sent off..." Another spectator sighed.
Quite a lot of people were feeling sympathetic towards Hiro at this moment after watching his suffering in the field.
Even so, a lot of people were admiring his willpower as well. Even after getting fouled so many times, he was still standing tall in the pitch and he was still drawing the attention of opposing players.
Right now as the first half of the match was nearing it's end, once again Hiro was running along with the ball.
About 30 yards away from the goal-post, currently he was trying to find gaps in the formation of the opposing team.
His jersey and face smeared with dirt after suffering countless tackles looked rather dirty.
And his dishevelled half sleeve jersey could hardly cover the bruises he had suffered.
Although his breathing seemed a little hurried, his eyes were still as sharp as ever. Rolling his eyes while vigorously turning his head, Hiro was multitasking at the moment.
With the ball in his feet, he had to watch out for the enemies too.
However despite that he didn't look flustered at the slightest. Calmly analysing the field as he moved the ball forward, he was currently in the middle third of the pitch.
The opposing players after accumulating four yellow cards were being wary of Hiro at this moment. And hence, right now even though Hiro was slowly charging forward, they were intentionally trying to maintain their distance from Hiro.
However just because they were maintaining their distance from Hiro didn't mean that they were afraid of approaching Hiro.
They were only maintaining their distance in search of a perfect opportunity to strike him. And Hiro was well aware of that fact.
Thus he too wasn't acting rashly either.
'Eagle Eye' Hiro willed in his heart after failing to find any gaps.
As he activated his skill eagle eye for the first time in this entire match, his vision got alleviated as everything in the field became extremely vivid to him.
Right at this moment at 42nd minute of the match, as Hiro activated his skill "Eagle Eye", he got a bird eye view of the entire field.
At this instance, nobody could hide from him, be it the players who were trying to sneak behind him from his blind spot or the players who were gesturing something sneakily.
Literally nothing in the field could hide from his vision at this moment. However although the skill allowed him to get a bird eye view of the entire field, it still had a major flaw.
Right now this omnipotent skill could only allow him to see this view for mere five seconds. Thus, every second was of great importance to him.
He simply couldn't afford to waste any time.
And since it wasn't his first time using the skill, immediately after the activation of ths skill, he avoided unnecessary actions and unnecessary players. Instead he focused his attention around him, trying to find an open space which he could exploit.
At this moment, while observing the field from above, he noticed Nijichi trying to break in.
But his movement was being followed by Ahmed. To his left, he saw his team's left-winger who's positioning was rather bad as he was positioned right infront of opposing right-back.
To his right he saw his team's right-winger who was trying to cut towards the middle. And at a certain distance away from him, just like him Yutaka with his exceptional spatial awareness was cutting in from the blind spot of the opposing players.
Before he could even finish observing, his vision returned to normal as the duration of his skill "Eagle Eye", ended.
As his unkempt hair swayed and some beads of perspiration fell down from his face, Hiro then lofted the ball above the head of the players who were blocking his path toward Yutaka.
At the same time one of opposing player whom he had seen trying to sneak on him from behind him during the usage of the skill, slid down at a rapid pace, inturn tackling him.
Hiro tried to avoid being tackled as he tried to jump out of the way. But he was a mere second late as he ended up getting tackled from behind him despite noticing the incoming tackle.
It was also one of the major drawback of the skill. Although he could see everything, he couldn't focus everywhere at once.
Afterall he was merely a human. Our mind is programmed as such that we can only focus at one thing.
He still had to divide his focus on the most important thing, if he wanted to utilise the skill to it's utmost limit.
And because of the momentary distraction when he made that pass to Yutaka, he failed to react the incoming tackle on time.
"Ahhhhh" Hiro let out a short painful scream as he collapsed on the ground after being tackled from behind.
Thud!!
During his fall, he collided with the opposing player who had tackled on him. Although the fall of his impact was cushioned by the opposing player, he still felt a sharp pain in his feet where he had been struck by the opposing player.
The player atop whom he had fallen too suffered a minor injury. Thus after Hiro rolled to the side, he too began to let out painful growl, "Argh..."
Beep!!
The referee immediately sounded the whistle upon witnessing that harsh collision.
After stopping the game, the referee came running towards the site of the collision. As he approached the site of collision, he noticed both the players lying on the ground, groaning in pain.
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