Author, DON'T U FUCKING DARE END THIS MANGA WITH ASHITO HAVING A FUCKING ACL, I SWEAR TO GOD.
I am a tad bit overreacting but HOLY FUCK ZOOMING ON HIS KNEE IS NOT A GOOD THING
Bro his legs are simply shaking from exhaustion. That's what happens when you run too much. Look at how the lines are drawn. It's not his knee that is the focus, it's his calves. Have you never done real cardio before?
I literally called this months ago. You can go back in the comments. I talk about how he's been sprinting at full speed too much. How he wasn't mentally overwhelmed, he was physically overwhelmed for probably an hour in-game now, while also trying to "figure out" how to deal with Barca.
He got to the mental answer, but he doesn't have the kind of physical monster stats that Akutsu and Kuribayashi have yet. He's only been playing seriously for a little over a year now. You're not supposed to have to run at full speed this much in a single football match, and the people that do train day in and day out to do it.
Ashito will be fine. The author isn't going to give him a lifelong injury here. The entire reason the author had them fight Barca in the first round, instead of later, is so that they could level up a lot and then lose.
I literally called the flow of this ENTIRE match months ago. The only thing I was wrong about was how long Damien would be on the field--I thought he'd show up later and they'd only have a couple minutes of surpassing him and then it'd be barely too late to catch up. Instead they had him show up really early so that Japan could actually catch up but then lose in the last few minutes.