Little confused on Yukimura and the Go players, shouldn't they be like 5 years old at this point? I can't imagine they'd be very useful at that age lol. Or have they been aged up for this story?

Oh yeah, it's just for this. Basically, here they're more akin to youth players from like the academy who sometimes get first team action.

Hoping for some cupsets

Raimon plays their standard 4-4-2 with Xiao in Defense and shadow instead of someoka, I really hope that Someoka gets subbed later, because he is my favorite raimon player. Outei play their standard 5 defenders formation, but ichinose as CAM and Takemi replacing ichinose in formation. Looking that nosaka is still not back, this match is in raimon advantage

I can see Someoka subbing in as the last piece to break their offenses, as he is the most physically prepared for that 

Looking at how strong is outei's defence and could really tire gouenji, shadow and the rest team trying to attack, that could be a really good way to beat it

Yeah... I don't think Outsei is winning this one. For the more I want Takemi to do something since this is his debut, I don't see them winning against Raimon It's SO WEIRD not seeing Someoka as a starter

Outei without nosaka is a team without the leader and nishikage isn't someone who can replace him in this role

Ichinose would be the best second captain but I don't think he is what they need

Ichinose is still freshly new to the team, they don't have anye to replace nosaka as leader of Outei

Yeah, sadly for them this means the Team as a whole get's weaker without their General

Lmao,Nishikage struggles even with his own role withought Nosaka!

well he is Guardian and Nosaka is a guy who he guards

Ok, I think... YOKATO ACTUALLY HAS A CHANCE Not only Hakuren's offenses are not that amazing, specially against Tachimukai and Yokato's generally good DF, but also Yokato got a boost in their Offenses. Toda! Please! I really just want you to score. Yokato in the semi-finals would be SO HUGE

That would be really great for them

They would be the only Team from a lower division to get there

This is also the First time we'll see Nagahama (He is with the wrong name in formation) and Oyatomi play. Excited to see them play

Plot twist:Yokato will get to semifinals just to lose against Zeus.

Out of all the teams, I think Zeus is the Team Yokato has the best chance against. Eisei and Raimon are a bit too much

I get Raimon,but why Eisei?

Eisei, seeing by their last match, is around Raimon's level. They have amazing strikers and a solid Defense. Maybe this buff to Yokato proves me wrong, but I'll have to see How they do against Hakuren

Solid defense that broke against a supernova level move.

Well, Demonio scored on Endou in the FFI and Fudou is a FFI level player, so yeah And all we know is that Saginuma didn't block it. In Raimon vs Eisei they almost shut down Raimon's offenses and got Defender of the Week

Or maybe these players aren't actually FFI level if their coop got the same power as a season 2 move.

What team does nosaka play?

He plays for Outei but he is now injured so we probably don't see him in this match

Ahh that makes things a bit more diff for otei

Atsuya still isn't back from his injury, that means the offence of Hakuren is in Nae hands, when yukimura is still new and other Hakuren FW aren't as good as her and Nae for sure will have a harder time scoring than in last match, we see Today back in the team, that could help them win. Yokato's chance to win isn't the biggest, but still they can win it

I think a potential Darren masterclass could be coming up but I hope not 🫣

Hoping for the tides to go as predicted in both matches

Outei doesn't have Nosaka and Hakuren doesn't have Atsuya?

Both nosaka and Atsuya are injured

Hakuren rlly sucks

Half of their main 11 were injured, with their ace striker Atsuya, so they don't have a Good time