Learn English Through Football Podcast: Stoppage Time Goal

In this week's football-language podcast we look at the phrase, 'stoppage time goal' after some late goals in the Champions League this week. We also look ahead to this week's football and the Merseyside derby. 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 about the phrase or our podcast then you can contact us here

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DB: Hello everyone. My name's Damon and I am based in Tokyo, which is currently hosting the World Athletics championships. The weather has been incredibly hot the last week, but it finally cooled down last night, which is good news for the athletes competing in the track and field events. How about the weather in London, where Damian is based? Damian, how are you and how are things over there in London?



DF: Hello Damon and hello everyone. I hope you are all doing well. Things here in London are good and the weather today has been quite hot and sunny - a lovely mid-autumn day!



Now, what a week of football we have had from the first set of matches from this season's [2025-26] Champions League. The favourites and holders PSG easily beat Atalanta 4-0 - they swept them aside, while Barcelona, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Manchester City all had impressive wins. Liverpool also had a win but they scored their winner very late on in their match to get the three points and we are going to focus on some language connected to late goals in today's show.



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DB: OK, Damian over to you and this podcast's football language section.

Football Language: Stoppage time goal

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DF: Right, let's take a look at some language about late goals after this week's Champions League had a couple of important goals after the 90th minute, including a winner for Liverpool and an equaliser for Juventus.

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