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The Close Game
Its Monday ,and its time for Barcelona to practice. At the beginning to get warmed up they ran and lap,stretched,and took shots on goal Messi didn't miss a single goal, neither did Neymar. Messi was their star player he had been playing since 1995, He is a forward. Neymar jr was there next best player he has played since about 2008, he plays left forward. They were both really good and have played together for a while. Their team was probably the best but they had a game Wednesday and it was the final game of the season if they lost, but if they won they moved on to the finals. They played Real Madrid Wednesday, there record was (11-0). Barcelona's record was (13-0), who ever won would move up so it was a pretty big game.
This is there second practice of the week and its Tuesday. The team stretched and did their normal warm ups. When they finished warming up, they practiced skill moves and dribbling. towards the end of practice they drilled corner kicks.They practiced for about 3 hours then they went home, they had a second practice that later that day. The second practice they did conditioning for about an hour, before they scrimmaged defense vs offense. Right before the end of practice they talked about the game they had tomorrow.
It was game day and they walked on the field and started stretching on the field. After the stretches they did some drills and warmed. Then they lined up on the field and took shots on the goalie. It wasn't a long time before they started the game, Barcelona got ball first and they played hard but neither team could score. Then Barcelona scored about half way through the first half. They played hard and Real Madrid got a PK because of a foul in the box, Then Real Madrid scored from the PK now its 1-1 and the half time whistle blows not too long after the PK.
It was halftime and the score was Barcelona 1, Real Madrid 1. The second half started and Messi from Barcelona shot and hit the cross bar it bounced out and the goalie got the ball and punted it out to Real Madrid, They took it up the line and crossed the ball it was over and the defense got the ball. The rest of the half was intense. The final whistle blew, it meant we would have to go into overtime. In overtime Real Madrid scored in the beginning and they played the first half of overtime.
The second half of overtime had 1 minute left and messi shot and scored now its 2-2 when the final whistle blew. They began PK’s and near the end its 5-6 Neymar shoots and makes it. Its now 6-6, Real Madrid shoots and missed its 6-6. Now its Messi's Shot if he scores than Barcelona wins. Hes sets up the crowd cheers and he lines up on the ball, he takes time to look at the goal,then he kicks it in the upper left hand corner and scores. The score is now 7-6 to end the game. The crowd goes wild and the whole team crowds Messi cheering. Now they move on to the finals with a record of (14-0).

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