Finals Match 1
Caltharus vs Lapinumbia
The final had finally come, this world cup has gone a long way, with many upsets and surprises, many thrashings and seeing so many great powers leave early.
The kick off started,
The Match was intense, the crowds were crazy, but who would become the world champion? Both nations won the world cup before and both wanted to win it again,
Caltharus had a chance in the 15th minute but completely blew it, Lapinumbia scored from a Corner Kick in the 22nd minute to put them ahead, they played really effective defense that left attacking teams struggling for even a remote breakthrough.
Caltharus finally struck back from a free kick turned into a header in the 44th minute, just as the clock was ticking for half time, they were now level.
The second half was noticeably bad for both sides, both struggled deeply to convert chances, both kept missing easy chances or the keepers (who are both world class), blocked them.
But something happened, Lapinumbia had conceded a penalty in the 89th minute, Caltharus had the best chance in history to win it right now, they sent out their best penalty taker to shoot it, but the Lapinumbian Keeper had other plans, Caltharus fired the penalty into the Far Right Top corner, it went past the keeper.
But the keepers fingers managed to redirect the ball just enough for it to hit the corner of the goal and it bounced out, without crossing the line, the world was stunned, did caltharus really blow that chance?
But the ball rebounded straight to the same striker, who was angered but confident it would go in, he fired with such force at the middle of the goal, but something unimaginable happened, the keeper who just saved the penalty was able to jump in time and make another save, this time hitting the post on the left side after the redirection.
A Lapinumbian Defender acted quickly and cleared the ball away with a nice bicycle kick, and it went to a Lapinumbian Winger who was all alone, with no man insight to cover for him, so he ran from the final second of the pitch to the final 4th, him being a winger helped as he was noticeably faster than most wingers, although he was not a goal scorer or a very good crosser, but maybe tonight was his time to shine? The Counterattack was on for Lapinumbia.
The Caltharus Defense ran desperately to cover their spaces, but they couldn’t do so at the moment, The winger who was a young fellow hit a runners high and started running even faster than legendary Track and field runners, The Caltharus Keeper ran towards to the winger to spot him from shooting from a precise position, but the winger didn’t shoot, he chipped the ball.
And it went into the goal at the 90+1 minute.
The Lapinumbias broke the deadlock, and had a major celebration, the Commentator exploded with commentary
“SURELY NOW, SURELY NOW! LAPINUMBIA HAVE WON THE WORLD CUP FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THEIR ENTIRE HISTORY”
“WHAT A TURN, FROM CONCEDING A LAST MINUTE PENALTY TO HAVING A LAST MINUTE COUNTERATTACK AND SCORING THE WINNER, THIS TEAM WILL GO DOWN TO THE HISTORY BOOKS FOR SURE, NOT JUST FOR THEIR OWN NATION OR CONTINENT, BUT FOR THE WORLD TO REMEMBER.”