A great week for Bundesliga side Mainz but a bad week for Italian giant Roma and Premier league team Liverpool as they both struggle at the start of the season. These stories and more all feature on this week’s languagecaster.com’s football podcast. For more football news come to our site, read the posts, listen to our main reports and check out our links section.
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PREDICTION
This week’s featured match sees Chelsea take on Manchester City – a game between two sides trying to buy the league 🙂 Below are Damian’s predictions
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FOOTBALL EXPRESSION
This weeka€™s English for Football phrase is a€˜to stick it in the neta€˜, which means to score a goal. The verb to stick here means to put or place, or finish off a good move in football, while the pronoun a€˜ita€™ refers to the ball. So, to stick it in the net means to finish off a good move with a goal. This week Dimitar Berbatov scored a hat-trick and the way he stuck home the goals suggested he has found his scoring touch again. To stick it in the net.
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This week’s QUIZ QUESTION:
How many European Cup / Champions League titles have Ajax won?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
Answer next week.
The answer to last week’s question was Man Utd have 60 wins to Liverpool’s 52.
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