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This week languagecaster.com brings you the football phrase ‘to wrong-foot the defence’. You can understand more about this word or phrase by reading the transcript below. You can also find many more examplesA soccer vocabulary by going to our football cliches page here and our huge football glossary here.
This week’s football phrase is ‘to wrong-foot the defence‘, which means to do something to catch out the defence; to throw them off-balance or to catch them by surprise. This often occurs when an attacker pretends to go or shoot one way but then does the opposite making the defenders lose balance. This happened in last weekend’s Manchester derby when United’s Rooney surprising shot wrong-footed the Manchester City defence and left goalkeeper Joe Hart stranded or wrong-footed. Rooneywrong-footed the defence to score.
