This postA explainsA the wordA ‘deadlock’. What does it mean and whenA when do we use it in football?
- Find out more about this phrase by reading the transcript below.
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Deadlock
This noun is formed by combining dead and lock; Dead, in this case means ‘absolute’A or ‘utter’, and lock means unable to move. So, deadlock means the situation when something is totally unable to move. In football, it describes the situation when two teams are evenly matched and neither can score a goal to give them an advantage – the score isA stuck at 0-0. It can also be used as an adjective, to be deadlocked.
- Example:The teams were deadlocked at 0-0 after a tense Championship play-off final before Christopher Schindler scored the decisive spot-kick for the club (Huddersfield). (The GuardianA Online)