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Back to back victories
For this week’s English for football phrase, we have ‘Back to back victories’, and we also describe alternative phrases with the same meaning.
- 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.
This week’s English for football phrase is ‘back to back victories‘, which is used when a team wins two games in a row. Another way of saying this is ‘consecutive victories‘ or ‘two wins on the bounce‘, as well as ‘two victories in a row‘. The phrase can be used toA describe consecutive losses and draws, too: for example, back to back defeats.
- Example: Back to back defeats saw the leaders fall to 4th place.
- Example: West Brom buoyed by back to back victories (Headline in Tribal Football)
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