On this week's football language podcast we report on a match from the 2015 Chinese Super League and look ahead to the Champions League quarter-finals.

In a continuation of our series of reports on live games that myself and Damon have recently been to see, we feature the match between home side Beijing Guoan and Shanghai Shenhua from the 2015 Chinese Super League.

This week's English for football expression is semi-finalist which refers to the teams involved in the last four or semi-final of a competition such as the FA Cup in English club football or the World Cup.

Back in 2007 we wrote a report on football in China and on the Chinese Super League, and we revisit the league in this weeka€™s report

In this week's football phrase we explain the phrase Three Lions

A couple of weeks ago Damon watched his side Liverpool play in a Europa League tie against Turkish side Besiktas and this weekend it was my turn to watch some live football when I went to watch Hong Kong take on Guam in an international friendly.

This weekend sees the resumption of the qualifiers for the 2016 European Championship that will take place in France next year. In this week's listening report we take a look at the state of the groups.

In this week's football phrase we talk about the phrase to crush.

Find out what the English for football phrase 'didn't show up' means in this week's football language post from languagecaster!

The road to the World Cup in Russia has just started and in this report we take a look at some of the early rounds of 2018 World Cup qualification.