Bro this match had me stressed from start to finish 😩 I missed a hell of chances and was just spraying shots across the bar like crazy. First half started with my team in green and white vs their red kit and in the 12th minute El-Hadji Diouf finally got me on the board. Rooney gave the assist and Diouf just slotted it past the keeper to make it 1-0. I was thinking okay cool, this will be easy. But nah, after that I started missing everything. 3 shots across the cross bar, tap-ins I skied, one-on-ones I messed up. It was so annoying because I knew I should be 3-0 up but I kept bottling it. Every time I got into the box my fingers would just panic and I’d rush the shot.
Then things got worse right before halftime. 45+1 and Joshua Kimmich got sent off for them after a bad challenge. I thought having 11 vs 10 would make it easier but I still couldn’t score. Right at 45+2 Rooney even got a penalty and the keeper saved it. I was like "what is going on today" because missing a pen when you’re already missing open chances is just pain. Went into halftime 1-0 and I was honestly pissed at myself. All that possession and only 1 goal to show for it. I even checked the stats and I had like 65% possession but nothing to show for it except wasted chances.
Second half came and they punished me for all my misses. 74th minute Batistuta scores for them with an assist from Shevchenko and it’s 1-1. My heart dropped because I knew I was throwing the game away. I kept pushing but every shot was either straight at the keeper or wide. I had 3 more shots across the bar in this half alone and I was shouting at the TV. At 82 minutes Drogba even had a shot that the keeper saved and I thought "this is it, I’m going to draw this stupid match". The commentators were probably tired of saying "what a miss" every 2 minutes.
But then 85th minute happened and Drogba saved my whole career. Conforth played him in, Drogba took one touch and smashed it into the bottom corner. "Goal Scorer 21 Didier Drogba 85’ Assist: 9 Conforth" came up and I literally jumped up. 2-1. After missing so much, after Kimmich red card, after Rooney’s missed penalty, after Batistuta equalizer... Drogba came clutch. That goal felt like heaven because I deserved to lose for how many chances I wasted. I paused the game for like 10 seconds just to calm down because I couldn’t believe it actually went in.
Final whistle and 2-1 win. I should have won 5-1 or 6-1 with all the chances I had but I’ll take it. Diouf in the 12th and Drogba in the 85th bailed me out. If Drogba didn’t score that late one I would have been so mad at myself for playing trash. eFootball will humble you real quick. All those missed shots across the bar almost cost me 3 points but at least I got the win. Never playing like that again though, need to be more clinical fr. Gonna go to training mode later because I can’t be wasting chances like this in Division 4, someone will punish me way harder next time.
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