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Chtr 40.

The match between Arouca and Santa Clara has entered the 41st minute, but the position is still the same 0 0.

The two teams have also traded attacks in recent minutes.

But every attack from both teams can be failed by their goalkeeper.

43 Minutes, the ball was in the possession of the Santa Clara team.

Santa Clara pressed all areas of the Arouca team. The Santa Clara team defenders also advance to the center of the field and raise their defensive line.

Sean, who saw this, hesitated whether he should stay as the coach instructed or not.

He thinks this is an opportunity if he can make a quick counterattack.

Sean subconsciously glanced to the sidelines while jogging, he saw coach Jorge Costa nod.

Sean then slowed his jogging and slowly stopped the land and walked around the central area of the field.

Roberto is not in his position because he is staying.

44 Minutes, the player who controlled the ball from the Santa Clara team arrived to cross from the right side of the defense Arouca towards the penalty box.

The positional struggle takes place inside the penalty box.

The central attackers of Santa Clara and Jubal pulled each other's shirts, to block or slow the movement.

When the ball is parallel to the goal, the center attacker will make a header but has been preceded by Basto who cut quickly.

Basto threw the ball into the front area of the penalty box.

Where there is a dangerous zone because many players opposing midfielders or Arouca team.

The fight for the ball also occurs in an area 30 meters away from the goal.

Valente who is a defensive midfielder did his tackle to grab the ball that is still wild.

With a touch of Valente's tackle, the ball again rolled in an unpredictable direction.

The tackled ball leads to the defensive side of Arouca's team, where Nelsinho, full back Arouca, is there.

Before the other players, Nelsinho immediately did the ball forward. He didn't control the ball that Valente touched.

Seeing this, Sean who was in the middle of the field also ran quickly forward. Run quickly while paying attention to the line of opposing defenders who come down because Nelsinho is increasingly carrying the ball forward.

Lopes and Roberto are also progressing, Ericson is advancing.

Only Santos and Valente were left behind.

Nelsinho continued to comb the left side of the field, he was also stopped by a winger from the Santa Clara team but he can still pass through it by running.

Nelsinho kicked the ball forward then ran quickly away the opposing winger.

After passing through the central area of the pitch, Nelsinho still did not stop and continued to carry him forward.

Sean who was near the penalty box arrived to stop and back 2 steps, giving room for Beto and Lopes.

Not just the space for Beto and Lopes, but Sean also had to look for a different, empty space.

Nelsinho who had run with the ball fast was approaching the penalty area, he had also stabbed in.

Sean who had stopped and retreated arrived, now behind Beto.

Nelsinho who had entered the penalty area did not make a pass, when he was about to shoot the opposing defender against him, Nelsinho immediately did a trick but the trick was read by the opposing defender.

Nelsinho who already had the awkward trick movement did not want his chances lost, he then dropped his body and kicked the ball with a forced.

After Nelsinho fell, the opposing defender who had blocked him was stunned for fear that the referee would consider it a foul, but when he saw the ball was not at Nelsinho's feet anymore, he was stunned, the opposing defending player looked behind him.

Where the ball is going to the central area of the penalty box.

Beto immediately moved to pick up the ball that was passed by forced by Nelsinho because he did not want to waste the opportunity.

Beto who is close to the ball will shoot him. But when the foot was about to shoot the ball, arrived outstretched the feet of other opponents defenders to move the ball so that Beto could not shoot.

Beto also ended up only shooting the wind because the ball had been touched by a footstool earlier.

The ball that is touched is increasingly pointing towards the middle, without anyone knowing who is near the ball.

But after a while, there was only a loud explosion.

Where Sean who from earlier behind Beto is ready with all the possibilities.

He also shot the ball when the ball was close to him, Sean did not waste a lot of time for fear of happening like Beto earlier.

With the ball hard towards the goal, the ball was pointed towards the bottom right corner. Sean kicked him with his left foot, which was not his strongest.

The ball continues to go towards the goal, the goalkeeper has jumped to save the ball.

When the hand is about to touch the ball, it passes through it exactly 2 cm from the finger.

The ball then hit the post and is still not accurate, but what they do not think is the ball that hit the post did not bounce out, but bounced into the goal.

Sean who had kicked also noticed, when he saw the ball into the goal, Sean immediately ran into a corner to perform his trademark celebration.

His fellow teammates also quickly chased Sean into a corner of the field.

The coach, staff and spectators cheered as they excelled at the end of the first half. The reserve player ran towards the corner of the field to celebrate the goal with Sean.

Sean is also happy to score again when the team is struggling to score.

With the end of Sean's celebration, Sean also returned to his team's territory with his colleagues.

Before kick off, the official match staff gives an additional sign of time for 1 minute.

Looking at the extra time, the Santa Clara players had ugly faces.

They want to immediately avenge the fall of this goal in the first half, so that in the round of 2 later they can start calmly because the score is still a draw.

With the whistle, kick off is done by the Santa Clara team.

Arouca's team players were different from before, they immediately pressed aggressively so that the Santa Clara team could not control the ball calmly and could not enter their territory.

They did not want Santa Clara to equalise in the final minutes of this first half.

With pressure from the Arouca team, the ball controlled by the Santa Clara players finally could only operate in their own territory and could not advance to enter the Arouca region.