4 Manchester United

False nine was a center forward who was not in his original position, a player played as false nine will often pick up the ball in the middle.

The purpose to used false nine was to withdraw the opponent's defender onward, so that would create a gap in the opponent's defense. As a result, the player who played as a midfielder or winger could enter the penalty box using the gap.

What if the opponent's defender didn't want to go onward? Then, team possession near the opponent's penalty box will be superior because of the center forward who helped the midfielders. This role was a role regulated by Traves for Kazuki. Traves had a reason for that. He thought Kazuki was not good enough to become a traditional center forward. Although false nine was good role, but Kazuki, who had the desire to score a goal, wasn't like this role.

Even so, Kazuki still did his role as false nine well. He helped Manchester United u-18 midfielder to maintain possession in front of the opponent's penalty box. Several times, he also worked with Bennet in a one-two pass. Bennet and Kazuki's relation was a little closer after Bennet helped a lot in Kazuki's training.

The effort did not betray the results, finally, Leicester City center-back, Skrimmer came forward to try to intercept the pass which given to Kazuki. But Kazuki passed him ease. Then, He ran to bring the ball quickly. The other Leicester defenders tried to close the gap which created by Skrimmer but just make another gap opened in the wing position. Kazuki made a through pass to Ethan, he immediately received the ball well.

Skrimmer, who had made a mistake, tried to redeem it, he closed space for Ethan to shoot. However, Ethan made a smart pass to the other side of the Leicester defense, Bennet who entered the penalty box, received the pass then immediately gave a strong shot towards the goalpost. The Leicester U-18 goalkeeper could only see the ball hit the upper corner of the goalpost then bounced to the net.

Manchester United was finally able to equalize to 1-1 with Joe Bennet's goal. However, the Red Devils was not satisfied. Manchester United u-18 was also members of the giant team, a draw like this did not satisfy Manchester United players. Manchester United was attacking Leicester. Their attack was begun to be intensified. Especially Bennet and Ethan, the two players were the most threatening for Leicester. Meanwhile, Leicester was loosening their guard to Kazuki after seeing Ethan and Bennet's ferocious attack.

It was used by Kazuki. The match was entering to the end. Kazuki broke through the offside trap that managed by Leicester City. he brought the ball quickly leaving two center-back Leicester who tried to chase him. Leicester's goalkeeper also ran forward to cover Kazuki's shooting space but Kazuki outwitted Leicester's goalkeeper. Then he shot the ball toward an empty goalpost.

The match ended with a victory for Manchester United. After the match, the Red Devils young players sat on the ground, and rested their body while listening to the evaluation of Coach Traves Lennon.

"A good match boys, even though we lost goals but we managed to score two goals in the second half. The tactical capabilities of Leicester City u-18 were very good. It was normal if we lose the ball." Traves turned his attention to Perreira and then continued his words, "But Perreira I was disappointed with you, you waste many opportunities. You are still young, it doesn't matter if you want make a solo goal.but you should remember if your attack is fail, you have to work more with your team. On the other side, Kazuki, you made great progress. "

Kazuki was a quite happy with Traves's response, in just less than a week Kazuki felt that he made a pretty good progress. Even though he was still inferior to talented players such as Bennet and Ethan but with multiple training in the real world and in [dream training], Kazuki was confident to surpass Bennet and Ethan.

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The next day daily training was canceled, the Manchester United u-18 team was given a ticket to watch Manchester United's first team match in an important match against Liverpool at Old Trafford Stadium.

Manchester United and Liverpool were two England league teams with the most achievements. Liverpool's dominance in the old years, broken by Manchester United who just got up under Sir Alex Henderson. In the two decades, Manchester United dominated the Premier League and won the Champions League trophy twice. But this season Liverpool who just changed coach made great progress than the previous season.

This could be seen from the Premier League table where Liverpool was leading with 10 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, totaling 33 points. Second, Manchester United was closely chasing 10 wins, 2 draws, and 2 losses, 32 points. Meanwhile, other competitors such as Arsenal, Chelsea, and Manchester City were unable to match the performance of Liverpool and Manchester United.

Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester City, and Manchester United was played in the Champions League. Manchester United was lucky they were in an easy group along with Real Madrid, Olympiacos, and Dynamo Zegreb. However, to prepare for the match against Liverpool, Manchester United sent a substitute lineup when they hosted Real Madrid at Old Trafford last week.

Beating Liverpool seems more important than taking first place in the group from Real Madrid.

Kazuki and his teammates sat in the stadium seats half an hour early from kick-off. The fans had came to fulfil the capacity of stadium. In a match as important as this, how could they missed the opportunity to support their beloved team.

Kazuki had watched matches at Old Trafford several times but the lively and enthusiastic atmosphere of the fans always impressed him.

He wondered when he would be able to feel this kind of atmosphere straight from the field.

'I have to keep training hard," thought Kazuki who had made up his mind.

Soon, players from both teams started to enter the field. Cheers filled the stadium. Each team fielded their strongest line-up. Although at the paper, Manchester United squad was stronger than Liverpool, but undoubtedly Liverpool's teamwork and tactic was better than Manchester United. The reason was very simple because Manchester United was star-studded, it was more difficult for them to work together than Liverpool where every player was not very outstanding but able to do their job well.

The match then began. Under the gaze of tens thousands fans, Manchester United launched an attack right from the start. Manchester United striker Ron had a good shot, but unfortunately, the shot hit the post and failed to open the score for the Red Devil.