What does "rasp in"/"rasper" mean in the following sentences?
The Reds struck twice in the opening six minutes to set the tone for the afternoon, with Luis Diaz heading in from a Roberto Firmino centre before Harvey Elliott swept in with a wonderful first-time effort from the edge of the box soon after.
Trent Alexander-Arnold rasped in a third just before the half-hour mark, finding the top corner from distance, before Firmino nudged in the fourth moments later from a deflected cross.
74 min: It seems baffling that Antonio Conte hasn’t made a substitution yet. Hugo Lloris makes his eighth save of the game, getting a mighty left hand behind a Marcus Rashford rasper. United’s striker can’t believe his shot has been kept out.
A rasping shot or a rasper is a really hard shot. In the first example, Alexander-Arnold 'rasped in' means that he scored with a really hard-hit shot.
In the second example, Rashford has hit a rasper - again, a really hard shot.
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