football cruelty

i think chipped goals are the best way to score in football. it's just cruel, really, the way the ball travels so slowly through the air, allowing everyone to watch it go in.

the keeper thinks he has a chance but grasps at thin air as it sails agonisingly out of reach. the defenders hold their breaths, hoping that their keeper will get it or hoping that it'll go over. some determined ones even sprint back for a last-ditch save.

but all these don't matter to the striker. the moment he felt the sweet contact as the ball left his foot, he knew that there was only one outcome: the ball in the back of the net.