In this football language podcast for learners of English who love the beautiful game, we look at some of the words and phrases from the Champions League group game between Manchester City and Paris Saint Germain and we use a report from the Guardian newspaper to do this. You can read a transcript for this podcast below, while you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions or questions then you can contact us at [email protected].

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Head off the line – Learning English Through Football Podcast: 2021 Champions League Man City vs PSG

DF: Hello everyone, this is Damian from the Languagecaster.com team here in a rather cold London – we might even have snow this weekend! I hope you are all doing well and that you enjoyed the football this week. The fifth set of fixtures in the Champions League took place and there were some big results, including AC Milan winning away at Atlético Madrid, former West Ham striker Sébastien Haller scoring his ninth Champions League goal of the season as Ajax won their fifth straight game; something that Liverpool also did after defeating Porto 2-0 – no doubt Damon will be happy with that result. He of course is in Tokyo – I wonder did he get up in the middle of the night to watch the game live?

OK, on this podcast we take a look at another one of the big games from the Champions League, perhaps the biggest in fact, as beaten finalists Manchester City took on Paris Saint Germain to see which side would top the group. We use a Guardian newspaper match report to help us look at some of the language used to describe the win for the Manchester side.

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Head off the line & Goal line clearance

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Manchester City started the game well and created some early chances and in this description, the reporter describes how their winger Riyad Mahrez tried to curl or bend the ball around the PSG goalkeeper Navas. He did this by cutting inside a defender which means he...