Tyler had his hands in his head as he heard Minamino's scream. The physiotherapists had already gone into the pitch and were currently working on resetting his foot and putting it back on the right direction.

["And Monaco are on the attack again. Takumi Minamino versus- Oh my God! No! That has to hurt. That definitely hurts. I didn't think it was physically possible for the human bone to bend in this direction. Oh my word, what a reckless tackle an absolutely reckless tackle and anything other than a red card would be very poor from the referee"]

["It's really poorly timed and as a professional footballer, the Auxerre center back has to do better than. I think it's not question that he was going for the ball and he definitely did not mean to cause this, but one cannot be this careless when lunging for the ball. That's just... That's just very poor"]

As a footballer, Tyler knew how painful injuries like that were. And more importantly, he knew how much they hurt mentally. Noone ever came back from an injury like that the same.

"Fuck..." Tyler muttered as he tried his best not to cry for his teammate.

Jasmine sat beside him and was patting his bag. After a few seconds, she pulled him into an arm hug and was trying her best to consume him but Tyler just didn't feel right.

After a minute had passed, Tyler finally willed himself to look up and watch what was happening on the pitch. Minamino was currently being stretchered off the pitch while his replacement was being lined up. As soon as Minamino left the pitch, the change was official and the game resumed.

The referee immediately pointed to the penalty spot, while bringing out a red card from his pocket and sending off the Auxerre center back who made the tackle on Minamino.

As they watched him come off, it was hard from the Monaco players to control themselves. Every fiber in their body pushed them against jumping him right there and then but they had to act professional for the sake of he match.

The fans though, they weren't held to any kind of constraint. They held a grudge and made sure he knew that they weren't at all happy with him.

"Wanker! Wanker! Wanker! Wanker!" The Monaco fans changed and started throwing objects towards the Auxerre defender as he marched towards his team's bench. It took the efforts of quite a few of the stewards on duty to minimize the object throwing, but they could do nothing about the chants.

"You're a wanker... Wanker! You're a fucking wanker... Wanker!"

The fans kept singing at the center back even though he was currently now sat on his team's bench. It looked like he did have quite a bit of remorse for what he did as he had his head in his hands as he sat down.

Tyler rubbed his eyes as he watched Biereth walk place the ball on rhe penalty box and walk a few paces back. He didn't want the match to continue but as was usually said, the show must go on.

Biereth did a little run up before reaching the ball and then sent it to the bottom left corner of the goalpost. The Auxerre goalkeeper dove the other way and the ball went into the back of the net.

Even though he scored, Biereth didn't celebrate, he just went back, along with the rest of his team to he center circle so that the match could be restarted.

After the match restarted, it became apparent that the Monaco players just weren't the same. They didn't play with the same intensity that they did earlier in the match. It was clear that the injury to Minamino was affecting them mentally.

George, who earned his way back into the matchday squad and was brought in for Minamino was the only spark in the Monaco team. He was trying to take on his man and progress the ball further, basically looking for a forth. The thing was that he was the only one searching, the rest of the team were just passively reacting to things.

From what started out as a very exciting match, it turned into a boring match. If Auxerre weren't down to ten men then they perhaps would've been able to capitalize on the mentality of the Monaco players.

In the blink of an eye, it was already the closing moments of the match. Just when everyone thought the match was going to end with the present scoreline, another goal was scored.

Monaco might've been tapped mentally, but they weren't so bad that they wouldn't be able to score when playing the majority of a half with a one man advantage.

George, as was the usual since his introduction into the match was at the center of the move again. He had been moved into a more central position, playing a free forward role behind Biereth. He picked up the ball from the center of the field and started driving forward before offloading it wide to Maghnes Aliouche.

Aliouche took the ball his stride and used a body feint to get past the player that was marking him and started running down the right. When he got to the edge of the penalty box, he slowed down a bit so that he could properly take on the opposition right back.

He did a couple of movements with his left before pushing the ball forward towards the byline and sent a low cross into the penalty box.

Biereth managed to get to the ball first but he didn't have the space to take a shot as he would've liked. He was forced to flick the ball backwards to George who made a late running the box.

George made no mistake when he took the shot, sending the ball to the bottom corner of the right side of the goalpost, ultimately finishing off the attack that he started. He had half a mind celebrate but decided to keep with the sober atmosphere in the stadium and walked back to the center circle with the rest of his teammates.

["And now it's George with the ball, he's been sort of the only Moanco player pushing for something ever since the unfortunate injury on Minamino earlier in the half. He's gotten the ball to Aliouche who's taken it out wide. And Aliouche is facing his man, he's taken the ball wide and crosses it into the box! BIERETHHHH!... And the striker decides to flick it into the path of the young George Ilenikhena. ILEHENIKHENNAAA! Goal! Monaco has scored their fourth of the game. It's four nil in their favor and if it wasn't already obvious already, the match is pretty much wrapped up by now"]

["Very intelligent pass and run from George Ilenikhena. He's moved the ball forward and he isn't stationary, he's followed the runner with the ball, positioned himself well to receive and now he's reaped the fruits of his intelligence"]

Tyler pumped his fists when George scored. He was still sad about what happened to Minamino but his happiness for his friend trumped his sadness. What happened to Minamino was unfortunate, but ea was said the proverbial show must continue.

Jasmine also celebrated the goal. The players went back to their positions quite quickly and the referee blew his whistle to signal the resumption of the match.

Nothing interesting really happened after the fourth goal. Monaco didn't really press forward much and Auxerre didn't really have anything to play for. They were one man down and four goals behind, they were basically just wanting for the referee to blow his whistle and end the excruciatingly long match.

After four minutes of stoppage time passed, the referee blew his whistle and the match came to a close.

As soon as the referee blew his whistle, Tyler stood up, along with Jasmine and they headed straight for the gate of the stadium. Even though Tyler got them in through a special entrance, he still had seats with the crowd and they had to leave while the fans were clapping the players so that they wouldn't get stampeded on the way out.

After they left the stadium, Tyler and Jasmine made their way back to the restaurant and had dinner there before which Tyler escorted her out of the restaurant and towards her house.

"I had a nice time out today". Jasmine said.

"Me too". Tyler said with a smile.

"Are you sure, because I'm pretty sure at some point you were going to burst into tears". Jasmine teased with a small smile on her face.

"It's not everyday you see someone's leg twist in unusual angles". Tyler replied with a bitter smile before shaking his head to try and get the image off his mind.

"We should do this again sometime". Jasmine said, before walking up to Tyler and giving him a kiss on his cheek.

After that, she hugged him goodbye and went into her house.

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