goalmouth
IPA: gˈoʊɫmʌθ
noun
- (sports) The area in front of the goal.
- (sports) The space between the goalposts through which the ball, puck, etc has to pass in order to score
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Examples of "goalmouth" in Sentences
- A player who stands in the goalmouth.
- You're handing the off site trolls a wide open goalmouth.
- He had only one thing in mid as he headed straight for the goalmouth.
- So, a large and rather open goalmouth is opening up for the Tories: will they take it?
- Which makes it pertinent to enquire why the said goalmouth is not crammed full of Tories all vying with one another to stuff the ball in the net?
- Nani crossed from the right but after Rooney had connected with it in the goalmouth, Danny Simpson was able to block the attempt athletically on the line.
- "Leicester band Family put out a greatest hits album in the 70s that had the lads swarming around a goalmouth in Leicester City's colours," adds Graham Fuller.
- Flyers captain Mike Richards made a fine play to allow Philadelphia to break the scoreless tie early in the second when he directed a hard pass toward the goalmouth from the left side.
- I do not pretend to have the answer to these questions, but pertinent they are and need to be kept under review, especially when part of the party's disquiet has been at the sometimes troubling absence of players on the pitch when Labour's goalmouth is left unattended.
- We find it extraordinary that Luis can be found guilty on the word of Patrice Evra alone when no one else on the field – including Evra's own team-mates and all the match officials – heard the alleged conversation between two players in a crowded Kop goalmouth while a corner-kick was about to be taken," the statement said."
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