This postA explainsA the clicheA ‘Goals change games’. What does it mean and whenA when do we use it in football?
- Find out more about this phrase by reading the transcript below.
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Goals change games
This cliche, goals change games, is up there with it’s a game of two halves and it’s not over until the final whistle, as one of those cliches that states something so obvious it doesn’t need to be said – as a cliche though, commentators and pundits can’t stop themselves from saying goals change games. Of course goals change games. It’s usually used when talking about imagining a situation when a goalA wasn’t scored, and talking about how the game would haveA been different. AnotherA situation you will hear this phrase is if a team scores just before half time – the inference being that this goal was more important than a goals cored at anotherA time.A
- Example:A Goals change games and if Arsenal hadn’t scored so early, Chelsea may have settled in the FA Cup final and gone on to win the game.