On The Verge

Mateo was standing over the ball in the penalty spot with his gaze on the goalkeeper and everyone else behind him.

"This is their chance to pull one back, a step toward not losing this match, can Mateo pull it off?"

The referee made sure that none of the players were encroaching into the box before blowing his whistle and now it was time to see how this was going to turn out.

Mateo closed his eyes and let out a deep breath before slowly taking two steps backward.

"Hey, you know no one's going to do anything to you if you just blast it over the bar, so just do it, I know where you're going to put it anyway."

Victor was trying to get into his head as he jumped up and down on his goal line, but the winger wasn't even paying attention to what he was saying.

His only focus was the goalpost and that was where he had his gaze as he quickly closed up on the ball.