Chapter 351: Round 4 of AFCON 22 Qualifiers II (A New Celebration)

Chapter 351: Round 4 of AFCON 22 Qualifiers II (A New Celebration)

Chapter 351: Round 4 of AFCON 22 Qualifiers II (A New Celebration)

As Jason ran forward after signaling for a pass, a Sierra Leone defender without any plans of letting Jason have the capability to receive the ball popped up in his vision charging at him with demolishing intent.

Jason didn’t stop moving despite seeing the player coming at him and instead his mind started thinking of the best way to evade the player while the player drew closer to him with every passing nanosecond.

Jason had barely made up his mind and was about to jump out of the way of the Sierra Leone player when Osimen arrived and jumped in the player’s path, setting up a screen for Jason to use to escape.

‘Thanksies,’ Jason thought as a little smile popped up at the corner of his lips and he skipped past the Osimen just after the ball came flying in.

The Sierra Leone player tried to push off Osimen, but Osimen held him off long enough to allow Jason to get away and reach the ball just before stepping into the penalty box.

The Sierra Leone goalkeeper didn’t remain idle in the face of the counter-attack and rushed out towards Jason, but Jason just tipped the underside of the ball with the tip of his boot and chipped the shot over the goalkeeper before skipping over the goalkeeper’s body that came flying in.

After jumping over the goalkeeper, he didn’t even have to look and took off down the sidelines before the ball even flew past the goal line.

{GOAL!}

{They have two!}

{Splendid counter-attack, electrifying pace, beautiful screen, and a smooth and cheeky finish!}

{As if scoring wasn’t enough, he decided to overdo it and humiliate the keeper while he was at it, yet no one but the men in Sierra Leone shirts is complaining!}

{This is what we love to see!} the commentator shouted as the ball landed into the back of the net.

Jason who had taken off to the sidelines stopped at the corner flag and looked back, making a gesture with his hands as if he was looking through binoculars at his teammates, then he shrugged with a mischievous smile on his face.

{It seems like a new celebration from the player, and what a time to show it off!} The commentator did not hesitate to mention Jason’s new celebration even as the player was now smoldering in the excitement of his teammates’ joyous reactions.

Jason barely smiled when he heard the commentator’s words because the commentator wasn’t wrong.

It was a celebration he had just thought up because he remembered what the Teni’s husband, Tayo was saying to him earlier about him being the best player on the Nigerian national team.

The looking through the binoculars gesture was him looking at his teammates and assessing the points Tayo had made, and his shrugging was him reluctantly accepting that “maybe, he was the best player on the team...”.

Although, he was never going to tell anyone about the meaning of the jubilation until he could fully accept that he was the best player on the team, no matter how long it takes till then.

Jason picked up the ball and threw it to Osimen to take the penalty.

It was his way of thanking Osimen for setting up a screen for him to use to escape the Sierra Leone defender coming his way and score the second goal for the team.

Nobody argued with Osimen taking the penalty so the ball was soon laid down on the penalty spot with Osimen standing a few steps behind it and waiting for the referee’s whistle.

*Fweeeeee*

On hearing the referee’s whistle, Osimen stepped up to the ball and coolly rifled the ball into the bottom left corner of the post.

{Well taken penalty!}

{They have three!}

{What a landslide! We expected goals for sure, but we weren’t expecting this!}

{Three for the men in green before the first-half whistle! It seems they have learned their lesson from the last game against this opponent and are putting their knowledge to good use!} The commentator’s voice wasn’t excessively loud, but it still got across the message to the watching fans while the Nigerian players calmly celebrated the goal.

After a mild amount of celebration from the Nigerian players, the match kicked off again, but it wasn’t too long before the referee blew the halftime whistle.

*Fweeeeeeeee*

On hearing the whistle, play stopped and the players of the two team began walking off the field and into the tunnel with the players in white looking a lot more up beat than their dejected opponents in blue.

{The first half whistle has been blown and what a half it was!}

{The match got off to a quick start when the Supa Eagles captain managed to get on the end of a cross from the new man, Jason}

{A while later, Jason cheekily sent the ball over the opposition goalkeeper to bring a beautiful end to an electrifying counter attack and finally... right before the second half, the team striker converted from the spot, bringing the scores of the game to three nil}

{The Nigerian side must be happy with the results while I’m sure the Sierra Leone manager must be raging at his players’ performance in that half}

{Can he straighten his players during the break and will we see a different performance from them in the second half?}

{We’ll find out soon enough!}R/ê/Ad lateSt ch/a/pters at nô(v)e(l)bin/.c/o//m Only