We have less than ten minutes,
Chances are the next point will be the game winner,
Tsubasa has the ball,
- Crap, - Crush him!
France tackles!
All right,
But Tsubasa evades and passes mid-air,
The ball goes to Misaki,
But Misaki has Pierre on him,
Like Tsubasa, will Misaki challenge him to a one-on-one?
No, he passes,
Here, Misaki,
It\'s a superb one-two return with Tsubasa,
Just as I thought, I\'ll intercept the return pass,
But Pierre has read the return pass?
What!
Pierre slips on the muddy pitch!
I\'ll stop him,
All right,
Kojiro,
Misaki sends Hyuga a final pass,
- Darn, - O-Oh no,
A superb pass that goes between the French defense,
All right, got it,
I, Kojiro Hyuga, will score the winning point,
What?
Oh, it\'s stopped!
Hyuga can\'t shoot like this!
Phew,
For France, that is truly one lucky puddle,
Now the stopped ball
has been picked up by the forward Napoleon, who has returned,
The goddess of victory seems to have smiled down on us, after all,
Let\'s go, Pierre,
Napoleon,
Let\'s go! Eiffel Attack!
Eiffel Attack?
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EPISODE 23 MISAKI VS, PIERRE,
Now it\'s time for a French counter attack,
It\'s anyone\'s guess what Pierre and Napoleon\'s Eiffel Attack could be,
All right, go France!
There\'s only a little time left,
If you can score now, it\'ll be a win for sure,
Could it be an aerial move like ours?
No, that\'s not it,
It\'s a pass attack!
Pierre!
The ball goes from Napoleon to Pierre,
And again to Napoleon,
What?
Unbelievable!
Pierre and Napoleon pass back and forth, managing to get past two players,
Like an elevator shooting up from both sides,
The top floor, the target, being,,,
Team Japan\'s goal!
A pass attack in the shape of the Eiffel Tower itself,
It\'s the Eiffel Attack!
Shoot, get in there, Intercept!
I\'ll stop them!
What skill!
Pierre with a brilliant loop pass that goes over Sano\'s head,
Nice, Pierre,
He goes from a long pass to a mid-range pass,
He leaves Ishizaki behind with some skilled pass work,
C-Crap,
Oh, no, I know these two well,
Napoleon\'s strength isn\'t just his shooting skills,
When the two of us went up against Team France,
his passing brought us to the goal,
His passing game is practically perfect,
And Pierre,,, He\'s not just talented on his own,
His ability to get the goal and his precise passes
make him an expert at placing the ball where he wants it,
He\'s perfect in all areas, and he\'s truly an all-rounder,
The Eiffel Attack by these two is the ultimate pass attack,
I-I have to stop this one,
Pierre!
Here!
Oh, Misaki with a sliding tackle
the very moment the pass from Napoleon would be with Pierre!
But Pierre takes the pass he was planning to kick with his right foot,
and suddenly changes it to an outside front kick with his left foot!
Misaki doesn\'t make it!
Their passing is coming down to that ultimate turning point,
From mid-range pass to short pass!
It\'s now quick passing in a tight space,
Oh no!
Misugi is the lone defender,
I told Tsubasa to leave the back to me,
I won\'t let these two get to the goal! I\'ll stop them,
A determined Misugi runs towards Pierre,
Jun,
They both kick the ball! Pierre and Misugi collide,
Oh! The ball flies straight into the air,
All right!
Pierre heads the ball and loops back,
All right! Nice one, Pierre,
Crap,
Napoleon times his run to get Pierre\'s ball,
Now it\'s a one-on-one between Napoleon and Wakashimazu out in the field,
Never mind Napoleon, shoot!
A defensive slice!
Cannon Shot!
Fearless Wakashimazu jumps at the shot,
Napoleon\'s Cannon Shot hits Wakashimazu\'s right hand
and the ball flies toward Japan\'s goal,
Oh, Wakashimazu manages to make the ball smack the cross bar,
No goal for Napoleon\'s Cannon Shot,
No goal!
Phew,
It isn\'t over yet, Our Eiffel Attack has no blind spot,
I-Incredible! The deflected ball,,,
It\'s Pierre\'s Jumping Volley!
It\'s in, goal! France gets the go ahead goal,
Pierre and Napoleon\'s Eiffel Attack pierces Japan\'s goal!
It\'s 4-3 and they have the lead!
All right!
All right, we got the lead,
Only Pierre! Good job, Napoleon!
We got this,
This point is huge,
And with only five minutes before the end of the match,
The stands are in an uproar and the support for France is deafening,
Vive la France!
I never thought we would need it against Japan,
They were supposed to remain our secret weapons until the end of the tournament,
Pierre\'s Slider Shot,
And the Eiffel Attack,
I wanted to keep this under wraps until the next match,
in the final against Germany,
But we need to win this one, or everything would be lost,
We had no choice,
But we\'ve won this one,
It\'s certainly a painful goal for Japan in this Junior Youth Tournament in France,
Will this be it for Team Japan?
Tsubasa will be okay,
Guys, don\'t let your guard down,
Yeah,
They still haven\'t given up,
Watch us, France Junior Youth,
The match isn\'t\' over yet, I swear we\'ll catch up,
The match has less than five minutes remaining,
The fans have been quiet, but they\'ve woken up now with France\'s goal,
Keep it up, France,
Let\'s tie it up before the final whistle, Japan,
We can\'t lose, guys!
Let\'s give it our all, Come on, let\'s cheer!
Y-Yeah,
Go, Japan!
Fight on!
- Go, Japan! - Go, Japan! That\'s right,
They\'re wearing the Japanese flags with pride, They\'ll fight until the end,
As long as we keep on cheering, they\'ll keep fighting toward the goal,
Go, Japan! You can still tie this,
And we\'re back,
Japan Junior Youth captain, Tsubasa, receives the pass and starts to dribble,
Go, Tsubasa,
Our goal is to win,
We can\'t lose now,
We\'re coming, France Junior Youth,
Tsubasa breaks through with some dribbling,
It seems the pesky puddles and mud are preventing
even Tsubasa Ozora from dribbling the way he wants,
- All right, I can get it, - Shoot,
Here,
Tsubasa, seeing Degaulle coming towards him, changes to a pass,
But again, the mud stops the pass attack from Tsubasa,
All right,
France clears it wide,
This field is certainly in a state and drainage is out of the question,
So is any kind of ordinary predictable play,
All of this certainly makes that point
by Pierre and Napoleon\'s Eiffel Attack all the more amazing,
Go, Japan,
It\'s only sheer determination that\'ll carry them through!
With being short one player, Team Japan has to be even more determined,
Guys, please,
France is in defense mode and determined to protect their one-point lead,
Tsubasa,
Tsubasa!
Once again, Japan is on the attack!
What will playmaker Tsubasa do?
What kind of strategy does he have under his sleeve?
With this rain, getting through by dribbling or breaking them down
through passing isn\'t going to work,
Then, this is the only way,
Tsubasa,
Oh, Tsubasa,
Drive Shot!
What?
CAPTAIN TSUBASA: JUNIOR YOUTH ARC,
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Drive Shot!
What?
Tsubasa, with a daring shot!
No way!
Oh, but Napoleon blocks it!
Nice, Napoleon!
The ball bounces to Hyuga,
That\'s right,
Tsubasa\'s right,
We\'ve only got a little time left,
And with the pitch like this,
the only thing we can do is try for a goal with a long shot,
Mark Number 9!
Yeah,
Degaulle and Rust mark Hyuga at the middle third
so he can\'t pull off his killer Tiger Shot,
No, I can\'t shoot like this,
The twin cannon long shooters for Japan,
Tsubasa and Hyuga, have their shots stifled by France\'s defense,
With the end of the match so close, and this terrible pitch,,,
The only things to fear are the long shots by those two,
As long as we stop them, we win,
France in the finals will be a sure thing,
Just wait, Germany Junior Youth,
We\'ll see you in the final,
Now less than three minutes remain,
Has Team Japan run out of options?
Crap!
Coach, Coach!
We know we don\'t have many options left, Please, put us in,
Our injuries won\'t hold us back! We can use our Skylab,
Tachibana,
Hyuga!
Hyuga with a back heel and the recipient is,,,
Matsuyama! It\'s Matsuyama!
Japan has one long-range cannon left!
Go, Matsuyama,
Shoot it!
Take that! This kind of pitch is my specialty,
Go!
There it is! Matsuyama\'s one and only Eagle Shot!
The ball makes a splash toward France\'s goal!
All right, it\'s ours!
No way are you going to score now!
Pierre!
The rejected ball goes out of the touchline,
Oh, that was so close,
Only a few moments left,
Have Team Japan\'s hopes for a tie finally disappeared?
Oh, substitution from Japan,
In a last-ditch effort for a tie,
Japan puts in the Tachibana twins for Sano and Sorimachi,
We\'re counting on you,
Yeah,
Those two,,,
The match resumes with Japan\'s throw in,
The ball goes from Misaki to Tsubasa and they attack again,
The Tachibana twins and Jito move up,
Here,
All right! Go, Tachibana twins,
Yo,
Let\'s go!
And there it is! Aerial magic by the Tachibana twins,
It\'s Skylab Hurricane!
We lost a point with that trick, too,
All right, go!
This ties it,
Oh no!
The pitch may be a problem on the ground, but not so in the air,
Team Japan\'s last hope lies with the Tachibana brothers\' Skylab,
Take that!
Yeah!
This is our Twin Shot!
No way!
Oh, the Twin Shot by the Tachibana brothers
is rejected by Pierre\'s vertically spinning kneel kick!
Nice, Pierre!
I already saw that trick in the Argentina match,
As long as I\'m around, you\'re not scoring,
That last trick by Japan is a dud!
Pierre stands as the wall between them and the French goal!
Nice, Pierre!
We got this match!
Ref, blow the whistle, It\'s time,
It\'s no good,
Skylab by the Tachibana twins didn\'t work,
The guys are marking numbers 9, 10, and 12,
I just stopped the ace in the hole by numbers 2 and 3,
Team Japan doesn\'t have any long shots left,
We won!
The ref looks at his watch!
The match is already in additional time,
Has the tremendous work by Pierre finally clinched a spot in the finals for France?
Not yet! We haven\'t lost yet,
Oh, but here\'s Misaki,
He\'s trapped the ball that Pierre repelled,
On this muddy pitch, he dribbles alone towards the French goal,
For Japan, this will be the final assault,
That\'s!
- Misaki! - Misaki!
- Taro! - Misaki!
Misaki!
The long shot is no longer an option,
so Misaki attempts to break through by dribbling,
Current conditions make dribbling seem a bit of a reckless endeavor, but,,,
Come at me, Misaki,
No matter what the pitch is like, we all play under the same conditions,
It\'s difficult to dribble, but so is defending,
Host country France has taken Pierre, practically a pro, and created
a team of elite players who\'ve played together for months,
But for us,,, Team Japan may have been thrown together,,,
But our hearts have been working towards the same goal for three years,
And that,,,
I\'m going to Brazil and becoming a professional!
And I\'ll make Japan number one in the world,
Those words,,,
Me, Wakabayashi, Kojiro, and Matsuyama, too,
I know we were all moved by Tsubasa\'s words that day,
Misaki gets by!
Even in the worst conditions, Misaki\'s technique still shines,
It\'s been three years since
we started walking towards the goal of becoming number one in the world,
Winning this tournament will be our major first step,
We can\'t stop at the semi-finals, We won\'t lose,
No way are we losing!
Amazing! Misaki blows by France Junior Youth,
Impressive,
Great ball control, even with the pitch in that condition,
I didn\'t know there was someone
besides Tsubasa Ozora who dribbles like this in Japan,
Go, Misaki!
Win! We\'re going to win!
When this tournament is over, I\'ll be alone again,
I can\'t play soccer with these guys anymore,
I may be in France, but I\'m Japanese,
From now on, I\'m going to represent Japan, I\'ll wear the flag and fight,
Watch me,
Dad!
Taro,
The chief referee keeps looking at his watch,
Only a short amount of time remains,
And there\'s one more on the French team,
Pierre is waiting!
The man who defeated Matsuyama\'s Eagle Shot,
and the Tachibana twins\' Skylab Hurricane,
Elle Sid Pierre blocks the path to the French goal,
One-on-one, let\'s finish this right here, Misaki,
Let\'s go, Pierre,
This is my last gamble,
Oh, Misaki kicks it out diagonally behind Pierre,
What?
But it\'s too weak for a shot,
Oh, the ball stops in a puddle,
Misaki dashes,
Pierre turns around and goes after it,
The goalie comes running out,
Pierre is running after reversing direction,
I\'m already building my speed from dribbling,
I\'ll get to the ball first!
And then this!
Unreal! Misaki uses the slick surface and his speed to slide,
It\'s Misaki\'s Sliding Shot,
- All right, - You did it, Misaki!
Not yet, I\'m here!
Napoleon comes around from the side and blocks it,
Japan can\'t score off the final attack,
- Napoleon! - Bravo!
I can\'t! There\'s nothing left,
Don\'t give up, Misaki!
Misaki\'s blocked foot,,,
Tsubasa comes up from behind and pushes,
They get by Napoleon\'s stronghold! The Golden Duo is alive and well,
All right,
Misaki is flying,
And Misaki takes the floating ball and immediately,,,
A Jumping Volley!
It\'s in! Misaki\'s shot digs into France\'s goal!
We,,, We did it Misaki! We\'re tied,
No!
No goal! The match was over before the goal!
Was that the goal whistle or to signal the end of the match?
If it was the latter, then with 4-3, France goes to the final,
Goal is good!
It\'s a goal! Misaki\'s shot is accepted,
Team Japan persisted and scored right before the end of the second half,
It\'s 4-4 and they\'ve tied it,
The match goes into overtime with two ten-minute halves,
- Misaki, great job, - Yay Misaki, nice shot,
He did it, they\'re tied,
They tied, they tied,
Well done, Taro,
All right,
Now I can play soccer with Tsubasa and the guys for another twenty minutes,
Misaki,
NEXT EPISODE OVERTIME IN THE RAIN