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Score

Meaning in football (soccer), with examples

/skɔːr/verbCore term

In football (soccer), score means: To get a goal by putting the ball into the opponents' net. As a noun, the score is the number of goals each team has at a given moment.

In Turkish: gol atmak, golü bulmak

How it is used

Used with or without an object: he scored, she scored twice, he scored a header. Commentators say a player has scored in five games in a row. The noun appears in "What's the score?" and "The final score was 2-1."

Example sentences

  1. Our new signing scored twice on his debut.

  2. What's the score? — We're 1-0 up.

Common collocations

  • score a goal
  • score twice
  • score from the spot
  • score a header
  • the final score
  • goalA point scored when the whole ball crosses the goal line between the posts and under the crossbar; also the frame with a net that teams try to put the ball into.
  • hat-trickThree goals scored by the same player in a single match; a perfect hat-trick is one with the left foot, one with the right foot and one header.
  • assistThe final pass or touch that sets up a teammate to score a goal.
  • nilZero, used in British English when saying football scores aloud, as in two-nil for 2-0.

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