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On this football language podcast for learners of English, we look at some of the words and phrases from the 2022 Women's Euros quarter-final match between France and the holders the Netherlands. We look at three phrases used in a BBC report on the game: 'break the deadlock'; 'from the spot' and 'set up a meeting with'. 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. https://media.blubrry.com/footballlanguage/content.blubrry.com/footballlanguage/LearnEnglishThroughFootballPodcast_2022WomensEuros_FrancevNetherlands.mp3 http://gty.im/1410522685 Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2022 Women's Euros - France vs The Netherlands DF: Hello again everyone and welcome to Languagecaster.com - the football-language podcast for learners of English who love the beautiful game of football. I'm Damian and I'm here in London and I'm one half of the languagecaster team, the other member of course is Damon who's based in Tokyo, in Japan. OK, I am in a warm and sunny London and it's the day after the final quarter-final match from the 2022 Women's European Championship that is taking place here in England. And so on today's football language podcast we take a look at some of the words and phrases from the last of these four quarter-finals; and this one was beween holders the Netherlands and France. To do this we'll look at one of the sentences from a report on the BBC website that includes phrases such as 'break the deadlock'; 'from the spot' and 'set up a meeting with'. And don't forget that you can also listen to our recent podcast on some of the words and phrases from the England versus Spain last eight game in which we discuss the phrases, thunder in; stunner and fire into. Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in French) France 1-0 The Netherlands http://gty.im/1410535739 Eve Perisset finally broke the deadlock for Les Bleus from the spot in the 102nd minute to set up a last-four meeting with Germany in Milton Keynes on Wednesday. (BBC.co.uk) So, France overcame their quarter-final hoodoo to defeat the holders, the Netherlands, 1-0 and make the last four of the European Championships for the first time; Les Bleus had been eliminated at the quarter-final stage in each of the last three European tournaments. They were the better side throughout the tie but only won thanks to a penalty in extra time. We'll take a look at the phrases, 'break the deadlock'; 'from the spot' and 'set up a meeting' from that sentence from the BBC report of the game and it's a sentence that explains nearly all of the main information and context from that match. Broke the deadlock So, the phrase to break the deadlock in football is used to describe when one team moves ahead in the game; they 'break' the draw - they open up the game. So, for example, if the game is scoreless (nil-nil) and a team scores we can say that they have broken the deadlock. In this quarter-final, the French finally scored against the Dutch - they had over 30 opportunities to score in the game - but only in extra time did they manage to do this. They broke the deadlock and then held on to win 1-0 and go through, or qualify, to the semi-final. From the spot The winning goal, scored by Eve Perisset, came from a penalty which was awarded in the first period of extra time after the referee consulted VAR. Now, for me it was a clear penalty as the Dutch defender clearly brought down the French attacker - maybe not a stonewall penalty (which is used to describe a super clear penalty) but definitely a penalty. Perisset's penalty was struck hard to the keeper's right and although she got a hand to the ball the Dutch keeper Van Domselaar, who was player of the match, was unable to keep the ball out. So, we can say that Perisset scored from the spot.