This week, languagecaster.com introduces the English for football phrase ‘to be finely balanced. You can read a transcript for this podcast below, while you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions or questions then you can contact us at admin@languagecaster.com.
(to be) Finely balanced
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This week’s English for football is to be finely balanced. We use this phrase when we want to say that a game, a team, or a competition does not have a clear leader or a team that is obviously the strongest. The result or the outcome is unknown, it is finely balanced. Now, this week Chelsea drew with Olympiakos away 0-0, but didn’t score. Olympiakos must come to Chelsea for the second leg, but Chelsea are not clear favourites because of the away goal rule – if Olympiakos score, Chelsea have to score two. The tie is finely balanced. Also, in the languagecaster predictions race, Damian has 145 points to my 143 points. It’s very close. It is finely balanced.
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