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- used, especially in sports reports, to refer to a situation in a football or hockey game in which several attacking players are trying hard to score a goal and several defending players are trying hard to prevent it, directly in front of the goal
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GOALMOUTH SCRAMBLE definition: 1. used, especially in sports reports, to refer to a situation in a football or hockey game in…. Learn more.
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Jan 5, 2019 · Using it to describe movement infers chaos and loss of control. So a goalmouth scramble is when defenders are desperately trying to clear the ball and attackers are also trying hard to put the ball in the net. No player has control over the ball.
But…what is a goalmouth scramble? Before it eventually untangles and resolves itself, a goalmouth scramble represents the ultimate footballing stalemate: one desperate team not quite attacking well enough to score promptly, against another desperate team defending just badly enough to keep the suspense alive.
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Goalmouth scramble – when multiple players from both teams attempt to gain control of a loose ball in the goalmouth. This often results in a short period of chaotic play involving attackers shooting towards goal and defenders blocking shots, balls ricocheting around the goalmouth, and players falling over. [ 160 ]
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In any great occasion, part of the experience is the anticipation; the calm before the storm. The feeling that you know something very special is about to happen; it’s agonisingly close at hand and you know, deep in your very soul, that this will be life-changing, but there’s nothing you can do to hasten its arrival, so your fevered, heart-racing e...
Ignoring every rule they’ve ever been taught about ‘putting a name on it’ and ‘one of youuuu’, fully four players – and the keeper, although he’s so far away from it he’s clearly made a hideous misjudgement and should never have left his line – go up for the header, two from each team so at least it’s fair. Despite no one actually appearing to win ...
The player, in space, boots it, in a relatively controlled manner given the incendiary situation, keeping it low in a forlorn hope that it will make it through the forest of legs that separate the ball from the net. However, where increased control normally leads to greater accuracy, in the frenzied environment of a second tier league game, this is...
The camera pans out and we discover that the ball has, in fact, cannoned across the goalmouth, back into the danger zone. Any touch, any, from an attacking player, with the keeper lying helpless on the ground, will result in a goal – and is there such a player lurking? You bet there is. 1-0 United, surely? No. And we’re not entirely sure how, or wh...
He lost two front teeth after being kicked in the face during a goalmouth scramble.
goalmouth in American English. (ˈɡoulˌmauθ) noun Word forms: plural -mouths (-ˌmauðz, ˌmauθs) the area between the goalposts directly in front of the goal in certain games, as soccer, lacrosse, and hockey. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.
