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PREDICTION

This week’s featured match is Aston Villa v Chelsea.

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FOOTBALL EXPRESSION

This week’s English for football expression is the phrase ‘flat-track bully’ which is often used in the sport of cricket when describing a batsman who performs well on slow, flat pitches. In football we use this term to describe a player or team that plays well against inferior players or sides. Zlatan Ibrahimovic has often been described as a flat track bully as he scores lots of goals but not always against top opposition, while both France and Portugal, after struggling to score goals throughout the campaign, had big victories in their World Cup qualifiers this week against lowly-ranked sides and have been accused of being flat-track bullies.

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This week’s QUIZ QUESTION:

This week Germany won their group and beat Russia 1-0 away, but how many times have Germanylost and away game in a World Cup qualifier?

a) 0

b) 1

c) 2

d) 5

Answer next week.

Last week we asked, ‘Paraguay first played an official international game in 1919 against Argentina. What was the score?’ The answer was d) Paraguay 1-5  Argentina

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