How To Use Goalkeeper In A Sentence
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The Cologne goalkeeper signalled his potential by publicly attacking the legendary Bayern Munich Maoist Paul Breitner for his heavy drinking, smoking and gambling though not, strangely enough, for his scrofulous appearance.
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James then raced onto a long ball over the top of the defence, chipped the goalkeeper but could only look on in frustration as the ball rebounded off the post.
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That must include 16 who are available to play, 14 outfield players and two goalkeepers.
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I understand that the goalkeepers are the only players allowed to handle the ball.
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Luis Garcia goes close after getting away with a rash challenge on the goalkeeper.
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An injury to Rossendale goalkeeper John Gillies proved to be the deciding factor in this match.
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He has an uncanny feeling for being in the right spot at the right time and the opposing goalkeeper can only watch and cry.
The Sun
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He said it was easier to substitute field players who got injured but not so for a goalkeeper when he was alone on the bench.
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The club's top goalkeeper is on the transfer list.
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Yes, they had quality in attack, but their title pursuit was built on the back four and goalkeeper.
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We were a little bit unlucky in one or two situations, then the goalkeeper saves and it is 0-0.
Times, Sunday Times
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To be fair the quality of the outfield positions are excellent now but the goalkeepers are actually woeful.
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The triumph also meant a shutout victory for goalkeeper Tim Howard, the first American to play in the final.
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As he reached the penalty area he calmly slotted the ball past the goalkeeper.
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He just looked backwards and barged in to the goalkeeper.
Times, Sunday Times
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Abigail, the goalkeeper, showed great goalkeeping skills by preventing many goals.
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The club's top goalkeeper is on the transfer list.
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The shortage of top-class goalkeepers will not end before next summer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ball spun for the Ecuadorean and he banged in a fierce shot which the goalkeeper could only palm away.
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He nodded the ball down only for the goalkeeper to stick out a hand and paw it away.
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It was another striker versus goalkeeper confrontation which ought to have gone to the man in possession.
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His surface-to-air screamer from about 10 yards was fisted clear by the goalkeeper.
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The goalkeeper just managed to palm the ball over the crossbar.
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How many of those 3,500 players have been goalkeepers?
Times, Sunday Times
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English clubs have had goalkeeper coaches for a long time.
The Sun
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Eric has been signed on for the team as goalkeeper.
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Blackpool's goalkeeper Matt Gilks, who was born in Rochdale but has Scottish grandparents, has been called up for the first-time and will deputise for Allan McGregor.
David Weir recalled to Scotland squad at the age of 40
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Chamakh's goal arrived after the French striker collected a delightful Wilshere pass, profited from a lucky bounce, weaved around the Birmingham goalkeeper Ben Foster and finished.
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Watch Edson Buddle's short header off a free kick for Ingolstadt's fourth goal against Karlsruhe and American goalkeeper -- and former D.C. United draft pick -- Luis Robles 2:35 mark:
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Even a training game goal is a personal defeat for the goalkeepers.
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What fortunately is, because Turin main force goalkeeper Ma Teao - Saileini havegood fortune similarly this competition.
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You can learn from how fearless the goalkeepers are in one-on-one situations.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although he hit his shot straight at the goalkeeper it slithered and stotted off limbs and the sodden turf before trundling over the line.
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Goalkeeper Neil Alexander, however, managed to parry his forceful drive wide and the chance of stealing a point was gone.
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It is worth a risk because the goalkeeper was out of his goal and it worked.
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After a bright start the home side took a third minute lead when Matthew Rhead floated the ball over goalkeeper Mark Thornley and saw his effort drop just under the crossbar.
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Over two and a half seasons for any manager to say that about his goalkeeper is exceptional.
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Rooney can do 40-yard passes or he can lob the goalkeeper from 40 yards.
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Dagano was denied again by the goalkeeper as Angola, who resorted to blatant time-wasting, were forced to defend desperately.
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But with the visitors frustrating their illustrious opponents and Milan's nerves jangling, the league leaders were awarded a dubious spot-kick four minutes from the end when Empoli goalkeeper Daniele Balli collided with Jon Dahl Tomasson.
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But for some inspired saves from City goalkeeper Mark Ovendale, United would surely have claimed not just a point but all three.
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The goalkeeper showed his continuing nervousness by needlessly coming to claim the resultant corner.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alex Mathie claimed the two goals, in both cases intruding himself beyond the defence, collecting excellent long balls, one on his right foot and the other on his head, both nicked home in front of the arriving goalkeeper.
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Presented with a gilt-edged chance, Gardyne attempted to lift his shot over Craig Wight, but the goalkeeper caught the effort with ease.
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Although the newcomers do not include a striker, they do include a new goalkeeper, David De Gea from Atletico Madrid, and Ferguson might still reel in Dutch playmaker Wesley Sneijder from Inter Milan.
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At hockey there was a vacancy for the goalkeeper and that had been my position in the school team.
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The choice of goalkeepers and defenders is relatively simple but that is not the case in midfield and attack.
Times, Sunday Times
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Playing a reserve goalkeeper in a crucial fixture was a needless risk.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was an awesome sight as he went into the dangerous places, daring a centre half or a goalkeeper to blink.
Times, Sunday Times
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Joaquin hesitated on his run up to the ball and then watch his weak kick saved easily by Korean goalkeeper Lee Woon Jae.
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The Lightning's goalkeeper is more proven, but Robert Esche has earned plenty of respect for his performance level right now.
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They both converted theirs and the goalkeeper stood firm at the last to seal the place in the finals on March 20 in Durham.
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One touch took Giggs round the goalkeeper and a chip across the vacated goalmouth presented Ronaldo with the simplest of finishes.
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The man with the most infamous perm in Scottish football history proved that a goalkeeper from an unfashionable club can step up and do a job for Scotland.
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A lovely ball through from Brian Pennington found Danny Harris who beat the offside trap to lob the advancing goalkeeper and put the home side two up.
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He became a goalkeeper when a heart murmur stopped him playing in outfield positions as a youngster.
Times, Sunday Times
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Added to these qualities has been the extremely high technical proficiency of Italian goalkeepers.
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Several minutes of disorder ensued, which included punch-ups and the Oxford goalkeeper apparently pinning a rather more bulky Warwick team member to the ground saying repeatedly ‘Who's my bitch now?’
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The red team was attacking very well, but the blue goalkeeper held them out I think.
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He put the goalkeeper under pressure and managed to force a corner.
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He has said the goalkeeper, Oliver Kahn, is the only world-class player they have.
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Whitley's goalkeeper Brian Dickson, a chef for a hospital catering company, bubbled away underneath the flat, old-fashioned crossbars.
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Also, Corinthian's goalkeeper Charlie Henderson joins the 21-man party departing for Brussels who, along with John Jermyn, are the only two uncapped players.
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The story is told of a goalkeeper who kept waving to his girlfriend in the grandstand every time he saved a goal.
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The shot was well beyond the reach of the goalkeeper.
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He picked up a long ball on the right wing, cut inside and found himself on the byline, a couple of yards from the Monaco post and goalkeeper.
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In Gaelic football, goalkeepers will continue to use plastic tees.
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In the second half both goalkeepers were called into action as the pace quickened.
Times, Sunday Times
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And it is not bad luck when the other team 's goalkeeper makes good saves.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think if we are relying on goalkeepers scoring goals then I won't be long in this business.
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All that was left then was a deft lob over the advancing goalkeeper and the City goal machine had struck yet again.
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With only the goalkeeper to beat, he completely muffed his shot.
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Excluding goalkeepers, what is the longest stretch of games a player has played without scoring for his own team?
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The soccer ball kept was rolling on, towards the goalkeeper.
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Their soccer positions are extensions of their actual personalities: Bernal plays the fiesty and temperamental forward who dreams of bigger scores and Luna is the level-headed goalkeeper who must save everybody else.
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In the second half both goalkeepers were called into action as the pace quickened.
Times, Sunday Times
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There have been some excellent goalkeepers in English football over the years.
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They call this keeper 'The Crazy One'The tradition of the madcap Latin American goalkeeper began with Peru's "El Loco", Ramón Quiroga, memorably booked in the opposition half by officious English referee Pat Partridge during the 1978 finals.
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The ball ricocheted off the goalkeeper and into the net.
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Goalkeepers, like great goalscorers, win and lose titles, as Sir Alex Ferguson, the Manchester United manager, has acknowledged.
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The goalkeeper sometimes deserves credit, but the onus is really on the penalty-taker.
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He will beat a goalkeeper with a sudden shot when there was little warning of danger.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Italian goalkeeper had no chance with the first two goals but he might have done better with the third.
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Spurs need a long-term goalkeeper, with Brad Friedel aprroaching 41 years of age, while Chelsea need someone to challenge Petr Cech after his dip in form.
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Too much protection for goalkeepers would make the game topsy-turvy.
Times, Sunday Times
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In penalty shot , it's kicker versus goalkeeper.
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In the second half both goalkeepers were called into action as the pace quickened.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sanderson crossed from the left to Rae and the on-loan Berwick Rangers player rounded his marker with ease before slotting past the goalkeeper.
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European Pressphoto Agency Gareth Bale Most impressive of all, six of those goals came against a seemingly impenetrable Inter side that rode a superhuman goalkeeper and deadbolt defense to three trophies last season, including a semifinal win over Barcelona.
Tip of the Day
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Shevchenko brings a smartish save out of Toldo with a cross that sort of morphed (peerless technical speak, I know) into a shot because the goalkeeper was out of position.
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English clubs have had goalkeeper coaches for a long time.
The Sun
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Brian was an outstanding underage player, possessing blistering pace, lethal finish and he is also an accomplished goalkeeper.
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Top goalkeepers can earn up to ￡50,000-a-year from manufacturers for wearing their gear, including built-in bonuses for Cup runs and television appearances.
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It was a fair challenge in my opinion but you can't compete with the goalkeeper any more.
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City had to secure special dispensation from the Football League to sign Whitehead on a seven-day loan from Reading after on-loan Sunderland goalkeeper Michael Ingham picked up a shoulder injury
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But it would also be unfair to single the goalkeeper out for criticism after a fixture in which City were so comprehensively outplayed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then, without warning, you've got the world's number one goalkeeper in self-destruct mode, the England captain glancing an own goal home and a seemingly impregnable lead overturned.
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The former international goalkeeper has faced a barrage of criticism from the some of the biggest names in Brazilian football since he succeeded Wanderley Luxemburgo last autumn.
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Flat caps have always played a big part in a goalkeeper's armoury and not just as a method of shielding the sun from their eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Dublin goalkeeper may wear rather large comical gloves to ensure that the ball does not go past him.
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The ball ricocheted off the goalkeeper and into the net.
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Some of Brazil's triumphs have been achieved in spite of their goalkeepers rather than because of them.
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To be fair, being a goalkeeper for any handball team is a thankless task.
Times, Sunday Times
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McGeady was again at the heart of the move, his jink and shot forcing the goalkeeper Sergei Pareiko to parry.
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` ` When your goalkeeper is hot like that it makes it easy for the rest of us, '' Sharks defenseman Kyle McLaren said.
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The goalkeeper made a spectacular dive to save the goal.
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STUTTGART, Germany (AP) - Stuttgart goalkeeper Jens Lehmann was fined an undisclosed sum Friday for criticizing the club's management over the firing of coach Markus Babbel.
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They're a fairly good team - their only weak link is a relatively inexperienced goalkeeper.
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Why else do football teams have goalkeepers?
Times, Sunday Times
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The goalkeeper is still out of action with a knee strain.
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They have strength throughout the squad from goalkeeper to attackers.
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United's need for a new goalkeeper is regarded as a priority at Old Trafford, with the 39-year-old Van der Sar widely thought to be in the final year of his professional life.
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This was a dismal display, which underlined the team's defensive deficiencies and need for a goalkeeper of real quality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Goodison Park is the first ground to see an own goal by a goalkeeper in successive top-flight matches.
Times, Sunday Times
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Solano clipped the ball past the isolated goalkeeper to score into an empty net.
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A quiet afternoon for the England goalkeeper, who could not be faulted for the goal and was largely untroubled.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their goalkeeper had an absolute blinder and if it hadn't have been for him we would won by far more than just 3-0.
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Yet, the goalkeeper did not dive the wrong way, remaining immobile as the penalty went into the corner.
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The goalkeeper rushed off his line, attempted to push a stationary striker out of his way, lost his balance and then failed to outjump several opposition players less than half his size.
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The ex-CSKA Moscow goalkeeper is set to make his debut for the reserves against Oxford tonight.
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I'll try my best to rout out a good goalkeeper for our football team.
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But it would also be unfair to single the goalkeeper out for criticism after a fixture in which City were so comprehensively outplayed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sporting KC coach Peter Vermes didn't hesitate when asked if he had seen a goalkeeper on this kind of streak.
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People forget that a goalkeeper's clearance should be an important pass, not a hoof upfield.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘I've never seen a better sweeper as a goalkeeper,’ Warnock says.
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Francis believes the sky's the limit for the young goalkeeper.
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He shaped for a diagonal into the box, before cutting through a low drive that swerved slightly away from the goalkeeper.
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With no little panache, he swivelled outside the penalty area to prang a dipping shot beyond the goalkeeper, his first goal for Scotland and the first he has managed with his right foot since turning professional.
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However, during that same period manager Sir Alex Ferguson has changed his goalkeeper more often than Claudio Ranieri changes his starting eleven.
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Technically, he is an excellent goalkeeper.
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The loss of their goalkeeper through injury was a major setback for the team.
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LIVERPOOL, England — Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina accidentally pushed the ball into his own net to hand Arsenal a 1-1 draw at Anfield in their Premier League opener on Sunday.
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The goalkeeper had to react quickly again to smother the dropped ball as Kevin Drinkell dashed in.
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The goalkeeper made a spectacular dive to save the goal.
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The goalkeeper came into his own with a series of brilliant saves.
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Ollie Walsh was so brave and athletic and was quite the greatest hurling goalkeeper I saw.
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They have completed the signing of Thibault Courtois from Genk – the Belgian goalkeeper has subsequently been loaned to Atlético Madrid – and are close to securing the Barcelona B midfielder Oriol Romeu, 19, who they envisage will have an active role to play in the first team.
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The Derry reserve goalkeeper concedes that he has become something of a fixture on the bench but is uncomplaining.
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Content that they have three international goalkeepers but only one specialist right back, one specialist left back and a variety of injury-prone central defenders?
Times, Sunday Times
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The sight of the outfield player anxiously pulling on an outsized goalkeeper jersey is too rarely seen in these days of substitute goalkeepers.
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The goalkeeper pulled off two fantastic saves and there was one blocked on the line.
The Sun
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He's been brought in at some cost to be United's long term goalkeeper so we need to keep a bit of faith in him.
The Guardian World News
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Given his one genuine sight of goal in the first half, he hit the goalkeeper rather than the target.
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One of the world's greatest ever goalkeepers had students oohing and aahing in Rathdowney last week.
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He strode forward from deep within his own half before unleashing a 30-yard piledriver that the goalkeeper acrobatically tipped over the bar.
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But we have to address that as a team, not only four players and a goalkeeper.
The Sun
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Within 14 minutes third choice goalkeeper Mark Salter had not only made three tough saves but had also watched a near own goal by Anthony Doeh.
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Half-time: Matt Murray, the retired 29-year-old former Wolves goalkeeper, is saying farewell to his former fans at the interval, with the aid of several former teammates including, yes, Lee Naylor.
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Widely reviled bad boy Craig Bellamy nets both goals thanks to some generosity from Crystal Palace goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly.
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It's also like being a goalkeeper, who is a diddy if he makes a mistake and the team loses.
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His size is a great advantage but he also has spring and ability - in fact he has every attribute to be a top line goalkeeper.
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A dead leg is much more of a problem for an outfield player than a goalkeeper.
The Sun
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Firstly Big Players had to substitute their goalkeeper, due to a head injury sustained as he jumped to collect a high ball.
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The ball ricocheted off the goalkeeper and into the net.
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Twice he failed to convert left wing crosses and then his lob over goalkeeper Malcolm Lottering hit the crossbar.
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His shot beat the goalkeeper neck and crop.
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The Saudi No23, whose name I don't know, hares past him and hooks a last-ditch cross behind the goalkeeper and across the face of goal.
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They're a fairly good team - their only weak link is a relatively inexperienced goalkeeper.
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He wriggled around both the defender and his goalkeeper and scored from one yard.
Times, Sunday Times
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For Charlton, Busby and goalkeeper Billy Foulkes, the other crash survivor still in the team, it was a deeply emotional moment.
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He sent in a delicate chip on goal which produced a top class save from the Saints goalkeeper, Roy just managing to get a fingertip to the ball to steer Convery's effort to safety.
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Such was the sparkless nature of the game that if either goalkeeper had gone off to rest in the Woodlands stadium terraces, he would never have been missed.
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According to sources at Old Trafford, Man U reckons their title blues are down to the colour of Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar's shirt.
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From 20 yards out, his thunderbolt crashed off the underside of the crossbar to leave Terriers' goalkeeper Ian Gray clutching at air.
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The quid pro quo on this should be that the goalkeeper is allowed to punch the (would-have-been-offside) striker in the face.
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He argues that because goalkeepers can handle the ball in the penalty area, they therefore should not be allowed to kick the ball outside of it.
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Italian forward Alessandro Del Piero, left, and U.S. goalkeeper Kasey Keller battle for position during their Group E match Saturday in Kaiserslautern.
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Stephen Carson walloped another long-range shot goalwards, although this one demanded fine handling from the goalkeeper currently on loan from Manchester United.
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As well as including in the squad youngsters such as Sophie Bradley, Claire Rafferty, Dunia Susi and Steph Houghton, Powell has welcomed back the midfielder Anita Asante and the goalkeeper Karen Bardsley after long-term injuries.
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The goalkeeper stalled as starting the goal kick,being given a yellow card.
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He argues that because goalkeepers can handle the ball in the penalty area, they therefore should not be allowed to kick the ball outside of it.
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The goalkeeper delivered a half-time talk to ensure dignity in the scoreline.
Times, Sunday Times
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The goalkeeper stalled as starting the goal kick,being given a yellow card.
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Goalkeeper Michele Gademans also played an important role, making four solid saves to shutout the other team and ensure the Clan a spot at the National Championships.
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The ball ricocheted off the goalkeeper and into the net.
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The goalkeeper was injured so a defender had to go in goal.
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The problems with the goalkeeper are well documented but he was not to blame for either goal.
The Sun
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After 15 minutes the unwieldy but effective Adam Pilling outwitted the Worcester goalkeeper, only to have his effort ruled out for offside.
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The closer you play to them, either as goalkeeper or someone on the touchline, the more chance there is of being in their eyeshot, earshot, or both.
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The combination, with the support of a goalkeeper like Dong Sik Yo, can demolish any defence in contemporary hockey.
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Wenger has gambled all on being right, on refusing, for example, to spend jarring sums of money on an essentially unexciting, non-shirtsleeved, unspiky-haired goalkeeper with a tedious expertise in catching footballs.
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But Sheffield, who had survived two spot kick claims against goalkeeper Alan Kelly and full-back Ward, simply redoubled their efforts.
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He is another of the young, gifted and up-and-coming breed of goalkeepers who has been tipped for international honours.
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After being so quiet in the final third for the bulk of the first half, while Jamie Speare was kept the busier of the two goalkeepers, there was a marked improvement in the Stanley players' body language.
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The Derry reserve goalkeeper concedes that he has become something of a fixture on the bench but is uncomplaining.
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The club has signed up a new goalkeeper this season.
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Although there is plenty of physical skill involved in placing the ball just out of the goalie's reach, a penalty shot is ultimately a mind game between player and goalkeeper.
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The goalkeeper just managed to tip the ball over the crossbar.
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The visitors took the lead through Paul Coffey after 15 minutes, who was on hand to punish a mix-up between goalkeeper Colin McCabe and Willie Holligan.
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But the manner in which the goals were conceded left the manager seething with anger and the bulk of the blame rests with his inexperienced Poland goalkeeper.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then Eder, a brilliant forward with a reputation for fierce shooting, ran at goalkeeper Alan Rough, who nerved himself to deal with a powerful shot.
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The goalkeeper is cup-tied in the competition, having played for Livingston - the club he left four months ago to join Celtic on a short-term deal.
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A Hearts move broke down when Marshall scooped up a cross, and the goalkeeper saw space at the other end of the field and whacked a clearance for Craig Dargo.
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Hockey should follow suit with special coaches for goalkeepers, defenders, halfbacks and forwards.
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We have had four, five or six players and the goalkeeper missing with injuries.
Times, Sunday Times
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With an absent goalkeeper Bex Holt and Emma Rutherford both did well as substitute keepers and were named players of the match for bravely taking up the challenge.
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The referee is surrounded by a mass of home team players, three of whom are cautioned for dissent, and the goalkeeper is sent off violent conduct.
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Last night it was much more haphazard, so much so that it ended with a goalkeeper scoring the winner.
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All the defending players except the goalkeeper are without any protection besides their stick and an abdominal guard.
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She ran half the length of the pitch to beat a couple of defenders before rounding the goalkeeper and slotting the ball home.
