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Football Language: Clinical Finishing

Today’s football language post explains the phrase ‘clinical finishing‘. You can 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.

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Clinical Finishing: Today we are going to talk about the adjective ‘clinical‘ which is often used to describe a team’s performance in football. The basic meaning here is related to how efficient a team is with respect to their performance and particularly in front of goal – so we often use this adjective with the word ‘finishing‘ – ‘clinical finishing‘. In this week’s Champions League group match between Spurs and Monaco, Spurs missed some good chances in their defeat – they were not so clinical in their finishing. Monaco, on the other hand, had two shots on target and scored with both of them – they were clinical in their finishing. Clinical finishing.

Clinical Finishing

  • Example: German World Cup star Gerd Muller was a clinical finisher – he made goal scoring appear easy.
  • Example: Lionel Messi’s Clinical Finish Gives 1-0 Lead Against Australia in 1000th Career Match (www.India.com, Dec 4 2022)

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