My Goalkeeping System

385 Unique FC Vs West Ham United: Match Day Three

There were eight envelopes in total and after bringing them over to him on the couch, Emma began to open them.

She was cautious to open them at first until she saw that they all had the same thing written on them.

"From your biggest fan." She read out loud before opening one of the letters.

She found everything written in all the letters and even laughed out loud when she read 'marry me' in one of them.

"Who is even sending these?" She asked before crashing down on his body.

"How am I supposed to know?"

"Slipping this number of letters through someone's door is quite creepy but he seems like he's a sweet fan who just wants to meet you." She said,

<No, these types of fans are the most toxic>

'I agree.'

"That may be true I don't know, but I don't really like the way he or she is going about it," Dave said before shaking his head.

"Yeah, it's weird." She said before getting up from his body. "But meeting him is going to make him stop, right?"

"Yeah, because I'm going to ask whoever that is to stop."

"Oh, cool, then." She said before picking up one of the envelopes. "So, how was training today?"

"Nice and fun I guess." He replied.

"Nice and fun, that's great."

"What about you? How was work today?"

"Good, but I miss Amber, she makes things a whole lot easier, never knew how much I loved having her around at work until this week."

"Don't you mean you love having her around because she handles all of your workload for you?" Dave said.

"Hey, don't say that." She said before quickly turning her gaze to him. "I have a lot of things to do in a day and she doesn't get to do much besides assisting me so it makes sense for her to handle some of my work, don't you think so?"

She sounded pretty angry now as Dave was forced to move away from her a little bit.

"Hey, I was just joking, you don't have to get mad over it."

After hearing him say that, she didn't say anything before getting up from the couch.

"I'm going to take a shower." She said before she began to make her way toward the staircase.

Dave kept his gaze on her as she made her way upstairs until she was out of sight.

"I'm hoping that shower washes away that anger." He muttered before letting out a sigh.

_______ ______

The next day came by pretty quickly, the day Unique FC were going to face off against West Ham United at home.

Dave expected to find piles of later in front of his door that morning but surprisingly, there was none. And while he was moving around outside his house going about his daily activities, he expected to see someone rushing toward him from nowhere, but nobody showed up.

"Maybe he gave up." He muttered before he continued the push-up he was doing on the lawn.

The match was set to kick off by 4:00 PM and the time now being 3:07 PM, the players from both teams were all on the pitch warming up for the match.

The leaders of the group versus the ones at the bottom of the table, everything was pointing toward Unique FC coming out on top but bottom-table teams beat top-table teams in the league sometimes so something unusual happening today wasn't out of the question, and wouldn't really be surprising to those who were expecting it.

The players from both teams warmed up on the pitch for a while before they were given the signal to make their way down the tunnel and go get ready for the match.

Unique FC were going to be putting on their custom-made home kit for the Europa Conference League and this was going to be the first time they were going to be putting it on.

Unlike the main one which was just orange with black polka dots, this one way just plain orange but there was still some touches of black there.

Every outline that was made on the kit was made using black.

The neck and the sleeves were also black.

The goalkeeper's kit also had its own style, it was black with a single orange stripe running down the left side, the stripe didn't stretch that down and stopped right at the middle.

The webnovel logo on the main kit was made with a shade of white and black but the one on Dave's kit was made with a touch of gold.

After putting on what most of them described as arguably their best kit so far this season, they made their way to the hallway where they met up with their opponents.

The West Ham United players were putting on one of their away kits which was the plain black one while their goalkeeper was putting on a sky blue kit.

The players stayed there for a while before they were given the signal to start making their way to the pitch.

As expected, the fans went wild as soon as they stepped out of the tunnel.

Jim and Steve quickly said their introductions and welcome message before diving right into the commentary.

"Before we start saying anything, Steve, I have to say, that kit from Unique FC is fire, I mean their main home kit already has a nice design but they just took it to the next level with this one, I wouldn't be surprised if they keep this as their main kit next season." Jim expressed.

"Yeah, it's a very beautiful kit, the designers did a good job with this one," Steve commented.

"Now, that out of the way, we have a match that I have a feeling is going to surprise a lot of people."

"Surprise a lot of people in what way? Do you think West Ham United is going to win it?" Steve asked.

"Um…no, not really, Unique FC are clearly the favorites for this match but I don't think it's going to be as easy as people think it's going to be." Jim expressed.

After stepping on the pitch and shaking hands with each other, the captains from both teams made their way to the match officials for the coin toss.

West Ham United ended up winning the coin toss which meant that they were going to be the ones starting the match from the kick-off spot.

"West Ham United are starting with the four-four-two formation and it looks like no one important is missing from their starting line up but Unique FC on the other hand are missing their best player Mateo Smith and one of their best midfielders Ferran Phil." Jim articulated.

"Looks like Norman is underestimating West Ham United to an extent to leave those two on the bench," Steve said.

"Or maybe he's just resting them to make sure they're ready for the deciding matches next month."

Dave was making his way to his goalpost now expecting a quest to pop up at any moment, but he didn't see anything until he got to his goalpost.

[ Conjoined quest received ]

[ Keep a clean sheet ]

[ Provide an assist ]

[ Make five crucial saves ]

[ Quest rewards ]

[ +250 exp ]

[ +1 attribute point ]

[ +2 stat points ]

[ +5 skill upgrade points ]