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goal-kick

NOUN
  1. (association football) a kick by the defending side after the attacking side sends the ball over the goal-line
  2. (rugby) an attempt to kick a goal

How To Use goal-kick In A Sentence

  • In contrast, the weather was filthy, however, and the driving rain was no aid to good kicking, particularly as Eden were without regular goal-kicker Rick Heron.
  • Carlo Cudicini gets booked for time-wasting, when he summons a defender to take a goal-kick for him.
  • The referee whistles for a goal-kick, which is rather baffling.
  • However, the fabulous goal-kicker is now much more mobile than he was last year when a niggling groin injury affected him.
  • It ends with Charlie Adam dispossessing Nasri and banging the ball off his rival's legs to win a goal-kick.54 mins: Johnson plays in Aguero, but Skrtel is across very quickly to dispossess. Manchester City 0 - 1 Liverpool – as it happened | Simon Burnton
  • The Belgians take their time over a goal-kick - time-wasting anyone?
  • So I can vouch for his genial generosity, wise humanity, and the glint in his eye with which he would, with reasonable content, have surveyed Wales's sometimes fetching performance in last month's World Cup, although the old hoofer would have snorted at their pathetic goal-kicking. Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating
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