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In this football language post for learners of English we look at the football expression ‘to scrambles‘. You can also read the transcript for this post 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.
Scramble
This week’s football phrase is ‘scramble‘ which generally means to do something in a rather uncontrolled or ungraceful manner. So, to scramble the ball clear means that the defending side have had some difficulty in making a clearance but after some struggles have manged to clear the ball from danger. A goalmouth scramble occurs when the attacking team tries on many occasions in the same attack to score a goal but are unable to due to some desperate defending – again, there is little or no control over the attack as the ball bounces around the area. Sometimes when the ball does eventually cross the line for a goal we can say that a team scrambled the ball home, where home means the goal. In this week’s Champions League match between Manchester United and Leverkusen, Wayne Rooney scrambled home his side’s opener in their 4-2 victory. Scramble.
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