Hey Dwi, Great question. If a team or a player is out in their feet, it means they have no more energy left. They ran, tackled, passed, etc. so hard...

Hi guensis, In this case, Damian is talking about an imaginary situation. 'An "emphatic finish"would be a goal scored with a hard shot.' - Here he...

'Areola is equal to it.' Areola is the West Ham goalkeeper and 'it' is a shot from Everton player, Harrison. If a goalkeeper is equal to a shot, it ...

Hi Dwi, At the double is a phrase which means quickly, but in this case it also refers to the 'double' - 2 goals - that Haarland scored (otherwise k...

Hi guensis, 'on the break' is a phrase connected with counter attack. If a team is on the break they are counter attacking. In your example text, Ev...

To spring forward means to suddenly attack quickly. Most often it means a counter attack. In numbers means with a lot of players. So, to spring fo...

@hyuna27g_ The verb 'to pen' comes from farming. A pen is where animals, like sheep, are kept, so to pen the sheep in, is to get the sheep into the sh...

A search in languagecaster's football match corpus finds the following interesting results: down the right/left - 104 occurrences up the right/le...

The show's not so great on learning about English football, unless you know absolutely nothing. But it could be useful for learning English. Shows lik...

Hi Hyuna27g_ Some great phrases here. When you say 'Pick that out!' it is a term that shows you think the shot and goal was hit with power, flying p...

Hi @hyuna27g The use of 'would' here is because we are talking about a hypothetical (imaginary) situation and offering advice or a recommendation. ...

Languages (not just English) give the speaker options for nuance - would is ‘softer’ than ‘is’ - it is rare for there to be just one correct a...

@hyuna27g_  great question! Let me answer for Damian. Basically you can us ‘is’ instead of ‘would’ in these examples. The reason t...

@hp-sauce Great question! Is 'a dirty win' the same as 'an ugly win'? Well, I think they are close in meaning, but an ugly win means that the winnin...

If you mug someone, you attack and rob them. The attack is usually a surprise. In this headline, the meaning is that Chelsea had three points 'stolen'...

Hi Dwi, A duck is a period of time when you do not score a goal. However, we only use the word when saying it has been 'broken' - he broke his duck'...

Hi Dwi, Well to bundle off means to push off the ball; it is very similar to 'bundle home' which is a kind of messy goal. 'with venom' means with ...

killed stone dead = finished, ended. So, Man City have scored again and the result is decided. They will win. a see-saw finish = swing one way a...

When a player hits the ball high over the crossbar (to Row Z or the cheap seats), in the British Isles, you might hear the commentator say, they've sc...

If there is a long way to travel before you reach home, you can say 'there is a long way back'. In football, if a team has a long way back, it means i...