Football Phrase of the Week: Margin

In this football phrase of the week we look at the word, 'margin' and see how it is used in football. We will look at slim margin and also wide margin after PSG's Champions League win at the weekend, as well as the phrase, 'small margins'. You can read the transcript for this post 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 admin@languagecaster.com.

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DF: Hello everyone. This is Damian from the Languagecaster team and I hope you are all doing well. Apologies for the slight delay in posting this but it has been a busy weekend of football, including of course the Champions League final in which PSG finally won their first title.



So, welcome to this week's football phrase which, of course, is when we look back at some of the football language from the weekend. And today we look at the word, 'margin' and in particular the phrases, 'biggest or widest margin' and 'small margins'.



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Now, as we mentioned at the start of the show, PSG, that's Paris Saint Germain, finally won their first Champions League title after defeating Inter 5-0 at the weekend. It was a heavy defeat for the Italian side, in fact it has been described as a thrashing (a 5-0 thrashing); a hammering and that they were taken apart. To take apart a team means that their opponents easily defeated them and scored lots of goals - the defeated team didn't play well because their opponents were so strong, they had been taken apart. In the final, Inter were taken apart by PSG - they were thrashed 5-0.



Few people saw this result coming as normally finals are quite cagey or cautious but PSG pressed Inter from the kick off and they never stopped until the final whistle. Goals from Hakimi, Kvaratskhelia, Mayulu and a brace from Desire Doue saw PSG win by five goals: the margin was five goals. So, we could say that margin means the gap or the amount or number or the difference between the two sides.



This five-goal margin was the biggest in Champions League finals history which means that no team had ever won by this many goals before. There had been three examples of four-goal margin wins in previous finals: Real Madrid scored 7 in the 1960 final and Eintracht Frankfurt scored three so the margin was four goals. There have been two 4-0 victories in previous European Cup/Champions League finals and both involved AC Milan: In 1989 they routed Steau Bucharest 4-0 and they repeated thi scoreline in 1994 when they <a href="https://languagecaster.