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Football Language: Labour to a victory

Labour to a victory Learn English Through Football Podcast – Labour to a victory: Hello everyone, my name is Damian from the languagecaster team and in this post we explain the football expression ‘labour to a victory‘. If you want to have the transcript for this extra football-language post then think about becoming a Patron a€“A you can access lots of extra materials about the language of football by doing so. IfA you have questions or comments about this or any other football phrase then email us at: admin@languagecaster.com . You can also find many more examples of soccer vocabulary by going to our football cliches page here and our huge football glossary here.

  • Example: The Irish team laboured to a 2-0 victory over Gibraltar in the European Championship qualifier last week.
  • Example: Nigeria secure record win but Morocco labour to victory in Africa Cup of Nations qualifying (ESPN.co.uk, 13th June 2022)
  • Example: Cristiano Ronaldo ends barren spell as Man Utd labour to victory over Brighton (Guardian Feb 15 2022)

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2 comments
  • Hi, I need a real sentence example for the expression “labor to a victory”.
    I desperately need it. Thank you so much in advance.
    By the way, your site is perfect and it actually has been a great help to me.

    • Hi Saeed,
      Nice to hear from you.
      We are very happy to hear that the site has been useful for you.
      I have posted some examples into the post above so hopefully they will be helpful for you.
      Best wishes
      Damian

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