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goal
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football
a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown. -
shot on goal
a shot that enters the goal or would have entered the goal if it had not been blocked by the goalkeeper or another defensive player. -
drive
to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation. -
field goal
Football. a three-point goal made by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball between the opponent's goalposts above the crossbar. -
home
Lord, Douglas-Home. -
shoot
to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.