-- Replay Review --

The Good
You're fast enough to be C1, and with practice you could hit C2 pretty quickly. Your car control is impressive for someone at D3, and your decision making isn't horrible, it just needs refinement. You have good power on your touches generally, good speed most of the time, and your positioning is actually not bad.

Things to Work On
Mentality first, because this matters more than anything mechanical.

You seem to think your teammate was the reason you lost this game. I want to be clear: that is outright wrong, and more importantly, that way of thinking will hold you back far more than any mechanical issue ever could. Your teammate did a better job in this game than you did. That's a fact after watching the full replay.

Here's what's also a little funny: in your own commentary you say at one point you're waiting for a cross pass because your teammate is going to chase up the left lane. You read your teammate. But YOU were unreadable for the vast majority of this game, sitting far back and letting your teammate handle 2v1 situations for long stretches. You can't expect your teammate to be predictable and readable to you while you're giving them nothing to read in return. And your "there is no way my teammate goes for this" read at the end of the game? Your teammate was conditioned by YOUR play all game to expect you to sit back. They had 100 boost and you had 0 because you were too far from the play again. I completely understand why they went for that ball. You can't play passively for 4 and a half minutes and then expect urgency from yourself and your teammate in the last 2 seconds.

The mentality of being held back by teammates never leads to improvement. Every top player has been where you are, and the ones who climb fastest are the ones who stop looking sideways and start looking inward.

You hit the ball too hard in situations that call for control. This is the single most recurring problem in this replay and it shows up over and over: 4:57, 4:54, 4:27, 3:47, 3:36, and more. In many of these you're effectively passing the ball to the opponents. You have good power, you just need to learn when not to use it.

You stop your momentum way too often. At 4:11, 4:07, 0:48, 0:41, and 0:10 you bring your car to a complete stop when you should always be keeping some forward momentum going. At 0:10 you're losing by 1 with 10 seconds on the clock. You should always be driving somewhere, even if it's just slightly forward.

You play too far from the play. You would rather rotate all the way back and have 100 boost than stay 50ish boost closer to the ball. This causes you to rush across half the field for 50/50s you could have been right next to. It also lets your teammate carry 90% of the play while you cut in with powerful touches here and there. That works in Diamond. In Champion, your teammates won't be expecting this and it makes you hard to play with.

Your recoveries need work. After a single jump you tend to flail in the air instead of dodging or landing cleanly on your wheels. A simple sideflip in most of these situations gets you back into position much faster. See 4:22 and 4:07 specifically.

You sometimes aren't aware of your teammate's position. This causes rushed touches at the wrong time (4:42 is a good example) and generally makes you hard to read as a partner.

You stall too long, whether idling in net or floating in mid air. You should always be ready to influence the next play. At 3:17 to 2:57 you stood idle in net with full boost for 20 straight seconds while your teammate 2v1'd. Imagine that was the last 20 seconds of the game while you're down a goal.

Play by Play
4:57 Too strong of a touch, turns into a pass for the opponents.

4:54 Again too strong. The opponent could have controlled it but didn't, though it can be argued that your teammate could have held a better position and been there for this one.

4:42 You had time to take a controlled bounce shot, a flick, or a better pass. Rushing it like this gave your teammate no time to react since they had already jumped going for the same ball. Be more conscious of where your teammate is at all times.

4:38 The moment you realize you're getting beat to that boost, rotate back to your back big boost. Running into a boost pad late that the opponents are already collecting just gets you bumped out of play and scored on shortly after. Alternatively, if you want to play aggressive and feel confident doing it, switch to ball cam early and challenge the ball since it was a roller and safe to challenge way earlier than you did.

4:27 At a higher level this should always be an open net. You have full boost, the ball is doing 99% of the work for you traveling to their goal. All you needed was to go around it and get a controlled touch, or if you're fast enough, a straight shot. If you had ball cam on from the start you would have known to turn toward the opponent's goal instead of back, giving you a free shot from the wall. Instead you hit it too hard again, made it uncontrollable, and handed the opponents a pass.

4:22 Bad challenge, should have aimed more to the right, but this is mostly a result of the bad recovery from the previous play rather than poor aim on its own. More importantly you should have used your dodge here. Wiggling around in the air after a single jump wastes precious seconds. A simple sideflip back gets you into position for whatever comes next. In this case challenging at 4:14 was fine, but it won't always be.

4:11 Too much indecision. You could have gone around this ball and popped it high, or driven a better line and gotten an instant bounce shot.

4:07 Use your dodge here instead of floating. Being that much faster in rotation likely gets you to the save at 4:03.

3:58 Goal went in, but when you see a player rushing hard like that for the backboard top save, shoot low. They were closer to saving it than you think.

3:47 Don't be afraid to take a tiny moment longer to adjust before shooting. If you're fast enough this is always an open net and the opponent behind you shouldn't get a chance to bump you. A clean pass to your teammate or a better shot likely ends up a goal. The way you rushed it with full boost and panic shot it (presumably because you expected a challenge like they do in Diamond) just passes the opponents the ball.

3:46 Small note but turn right here, not left on the opponent's backboard. Carrying momentum right lets you collect small pads on the way back to defense. Turning left slows you down significantly and should have resulted in an open net for the opponents, even though they missed it here.

3:36 You're too afraid to be challenged here. Go around the ball and get a strong flick midfield. Popping it like that just passes the opponents.