Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4436931-20190425212942/@comment-36238563-20190426213921

After a great struggle, Asuto straight up dribbles past one of the world's best keepers? Well it's certainly a very Inazuma Eleven Orion way to end an otherwise reasonably interesting match. The other national teams really were built up as being on a far, far greater level than Inazuma Japan so it's quite bizarre to see the gap in power bridged rather quickly.

Twin Lancer and The Shelter were nice to see and suggest there's more to Spain than what we've seen. I would've preferred to see a wider variety of hissatsu more evenly spread out through the whole match, but perhaps we'll get another chance as I imagine (hope) there'll be a Spain v Russia game with some screentime - although in reality I expect such a game will just be Russia steamrolling the not-so-Invincible Giants.

Interesting to see Shirou as the traitor, considering he's such a beloved character. I have a feeling there'll be more than meets the eye to his motives (although still waiting on the sub obviously so maybe this is mentioned to some extent?). I'm surprised at how relevant the Orion Foundation's internal bureaucracy seems to be to the story so far. I'm curious to see where things go and while I don't like to assume anything, I'm expecting more depth to them as villains than Garshield but to like them less than Kageyama.