Every week, languagecaster.com brings you words or phrases from the footballing news. Today we explain the phrase ‘to squeeze past’. You can understand more about the word or phrase by reading the transcript below. You can also find many more examples by going to our football cliches page here and our huge football glossary here
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This week’s football phrase is ‘to squeeze past‘, which means to narrowly win a game that should easily win, that is, with more difficulty than is necessary. Other similar phrases include: to scrape a win; to sneak a win or to narrowly win. In last week’s World Cup qualifying games many of the so-called top sides struggled against some of the lesser teams; they managed to squeeze past them. Ireland squeezed past Kazakhstan in the final moments while Italy managed to squeeze past Malta 2-0 and the USA squeezed past Jamaica 1-0 in their World Cup qualifiers. To squeeze past
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