Learn English Through Football Podcast: Late Goals and El Clásico

In this football language podcast we look back at an extraordinary weekend of late goals in the Premier League. We also explain some of the language from the 2024 el Clásico including, ‘move 6 points clear‘ and ‘lob‘. We also look ahead to next weekend’s football with our predictions competition – this week is an all Premier League week. You can read the 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 admin@languagecaster.com.

Late Goals and El Clásico

DF: You’re listening to the Learning English Through Football Podcast.

Hello everyone and welcome to the show for all those who love the beautiful game of football and who want to improve their English. My name is Damian and I am based in London where the weather is definitely getting cooler and the clocks have gone back an hour last weekend meaning that I am now 9 hours behind Damon, the other member of the Learn English Through Football Podcast team. Of course, Damon is in Tokyo, Japan. What’s the weather like where you are? And what time difference is there between where you are and the Learn English Through Football Podcast team (in London or in Tokyo!)? By the way, happy Diwali to all those who celebrate – you might be able to hear some fireworks going off in the background; there are lots of celebrations here in east London.

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Today’s Show

DF: That message was in Spanish and we’ll have some more stingers, or messages, throughout today’s show in different languages. Try and guess what they are.

Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Hindi)

Right, on today’s podcast we will be looking at some more football language from the footballing week including some words and phrases that describe late goals in games. We will also look at one or two phrases from el Clásico, including, ‘move 6 points clear‘ and ‘lob‘. And, of course, we’ll also look ahead to this weekend’s football in our predictions competition.

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Late goals

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Last weekend in the Premier League saw some incredible moments as teams scored really late goals in five of the ten matches. And these goals were decisive which means that they changed the result of the game: so, from a defeat to a draw or from a draw to a win. A pity, of course, that my favourite team Tottenham were not able to score a late goal – or indeed any goal – against Crystal Palace! Mateta scored the decisive goal for Palace in that one. I wonder how Liverpool fan Damon is feeling after his side’s 2-2 ...