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Attendees to World Cup final known as Final 4 teams give their all-in semifinals.
July 5726 (backdated)

It’s not every single day that your team will be playing a World Cup final. Indeed, this World Cup has proven to be the competition of outsiders, with most favourites being either knocked up early or being eliminated in the knockout stage. This year’s semifinals saw Ikradon battling against Bianjie and Luthori confronting Mordusia, each of these teams aiming at winning to successfully reach the final.

Luthori’s match against Mordusia was attended by His Majesty the Emperor himself, as both of his realms were confronting themselves in the football pitch, as the match started, Mordusia immediately went into the offence, aiming at scoring against Luthori in the early stage and later shift to a defensive strategy that some would call “haramball”. Mordusia’s Haylan Ramsey scored at the 19th minute after a 15-meter freekick that Luthori’s goalkeeper Jon Parsley failed to stop from hitting the goal’s nest. Fortunately, the Luthorians were able to come back at 1-1 after Matt Odion transformed a penalty in the 41st minute. 

At half-time, the score was of 1-1 and that score remained as such during the second half, until the Luthorians scored in the 90th minute, with Conor Dean scoring what was widely considered as the “victory goal” on the Luthorians’ behalf, unfortunately in the 93th minute, defender Roger Parksley made a handball in the penalty area, causing Haylan Ramsay to once again equalize to bring the score to 2-2 at full-time.

Unfortunately for each time, extra time saw numerous attempts at unlocking the goal counter in either teams’ favour, but these efforts were unsuccessful – causing a penalty shootout filled with tensions as each team transformed their penalties, 1-0, then 1-1, then 2-1, then 2-2, and so on and on, each teams successfully scored every single time, at some point, the score was 6-6, until Luthori’s midfielder, Travis Poole saw his penalty being stopped by Mordusia’s GK Lloyd Flandin. Following this, Mordusia’s defender Robert Hunt scored, sending Mordusia to the final with the following score 2-2 (6-7 pen)

But who will join Mordusia in the final? Will it be Ikradon or Bianjie? In their match, both teams focused on ultra-offensive football. At halftime, the score was of 3-1 in Ikradon’s favour, many predicted that the Artanian formation would be qualified for the final, but Bianjie had other plans, scoring three goals in the 51th minute, another one in the 68th minute and finally the last goal, sending them straight to the final against Mordusia in the 87th minute.

After their qualification, both the Mordusian and Bianjie teams’ supporters celebrated while the streets of Fort William and other major cities were more silent than usual as the nation coped with the fact that Luthori was knocked out of its own tournament by Mordusia in a penalty shootout. Streets in the national capital of Randworth were filled with celebrating supporters as the Mordusians have the chance to bring the trophy home, same in Bianjie’s Gemun.

Luthori and Ikradon will fight for 3rd place in the “Little Final” on July 13th while Mordusia vs. Bianjie will be on July 14th. Stay tuned to know who crowned World Champions will be.