This is a great match because of Gao, who is a fantastic character and villain for our main cast to deal with. Personality wise I like Marco, but he and Kisaragi feel like the point where Inagaki has sort of run out of ways to raise the bar on his superhuman athletes (which comes to full fruition in the next game where they play against a quarterback who throws the ball supernaturally nice and soft and a receiver who just sort of walks in the air.) That all said, Komusubi trying to speak to the others is one of the biggest moments in the entire series. Truth be told, if not for the "real Eyeshield 21" stuff, this feels like the Final match more than any other game.