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Football Language: (a) Soft Goal

In this post, we explain whatA ‘a soft goal’ means.

  • Find out more about this phrase by reading the transcript below.
  • You can also find many more examples of soccer vocabulary by going to our football cliches page here and our huge football glossary here.

A Soft Goal

soft goalThis phrase is used to describe the situation when a team gives their opponent an easy goal. ‘Soft‘ in this phrase means easy, the other team didn’t have to work hard to score a goal; it was an easy chance. It usually collocates, goes with, the verb ‘concede’ or the verb phrase ‘give away’ – to concede a soft goal, to give away a soft goal. The goal may come because of very bad defending, a goal-keeping error, because no-one was marking the opposition at a corner, or a similar situation.

Example: Dortmund’s Bosz on loss: ‘The goals we conceded were much too soft’A (Headline – ESPN).

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