@mokhliq23 you're right. The mangaka wrote himself into a corner a dozen of chapters ago and now, it feels like anything he is going to pull up to end this arc would be bad writing.
I dont know how to feel about the next arc... are they going to play against simulations? Imagine asking real life football stars to come play half a world away and in an extremely private facility, against a dozen of teenagers, 5 players at a time (and you know that they are going all out, so...