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Goal meaning

A result that one is attempting to achieve. | In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object. | The act of placing the object into the goal.

Example sentences (20)

Leading the Brewer offense were Bre Severance (goal, assist), Jessica Hart (goal), Olivia Fick (goal), Paige Seymour (goal), Janessa Bishop (assist) and Claire Warmouth (assist).

A rectangular goal is positioned at the middle of each goal line. citation The inner edges of the vertical goal posts must be convert apart, and the lower edge of the horizontal crossbar supported by the goal posts must be convert above the ground.

Cailey Trosch scored twice, Mary Quinlan had a goal and three assists Hannah Hudack a goal and two assists and Katerina Tsambis a goal and an assist for the Raiders.

Kurashev scored a goal to pull the Hawks within 3-2 and had two assists, setting up Connor Murphy’s opening goal and Jones’ tying goal.

We gave away a really poor goal for the first goal and after that always chasing the game and for all our work, second half we were fantastic, we can’t give good teams a two goal start as you always struggle to get back into the game.

What will get forgotten because of the goal was how close he came in the first half to a stunning finish with an acrobatic overhead kick which was goal-bound before hitting a Millers defender in front of goal.

The Bruins then closed the gap to one when Sean Kuraly found the net ahead of the B’s largest donnybrook of the season, a goal he didn’t get to celebrate because he was tossed for fighting before officials ruled his goal a good goal.

After Hunt scored a power-play goal that gave the Wild a 3-2 lead, Colorado tied it on MacKinnon’s goal with 48 seconds left in the period, a goal that Dubnyk argued futilely was kicked in by the center.

A high Charlie Keher dead-ball into the Scotland goal area was deflected down, and, with the keeper beaten, Connor Gilpin did superbly well to stretch low to his right on the goal-line and turn the ball away with his club to prevent a certain goal.

Elijah Allen netted a hat trick for Mount View, while Logan Curtis (goal), Andrew Savoy (goal), Sean Raven (goal), Cassidy Pound (3 assists) and Noah Jacobs (assist) also contributed to the offense.

I don’t know if it was their third goal or their fourth goal, we have an opportunity to stop Russell 2-v-1 on the right side and he breaks through, and he’s running at our goalkeeper almost 1-v-1 and makes a good decision, goal.

Koyla Philbrook scored the lone goal for Oceanside off a penalty kick, while Sage Hapgood-Belanger (3 goals), Cameron Johnson (goal) and Travis Dow (goal) netted goals for Erskine Academy.

Lionel Messi’s first half goal for Argentina ended a run of 662 minutes without a goal in the World Cup – his last goal came in June 2014, also against Nigeria.

You cannot practice a goal call, because I don’t punctuate the goal because it’s a goal.

Robson, 2006 Maradona's second goal, just four minutes after the hotly disputed hand-goal, was later voted by FIFA as the greatest goal in the history of the World Cup.

Since moving the goal posts back 25 yards would have made the scoring of field goals excessively difficult, and since the CRU did not want to reduce the prominence of field goals, the goal posts were left on the goal line where they remain today.

So, for example, a lifted shot at the goal which is still rising as it crosses the goal line (or would have been rising as it crossed the goal line) can be legitimately followed up by any of the attacking team looking for a rebound.

The first goal was an unpenalized handling foul known as the " Hand of God ", while the second goal followed a convert dribble past five England players, voted " The Goal of the Century " by FIFA.com voters in 2002.

The goal posts in Canadian football still reside on the goal line instead of the back of the end zones, partly because the number of field goal attempts would dramatically decrease if the posts were moved 20 yards back in that sport.

These involved rules ending a game in extra time early, either when the first goal in extra time was scored ( golden goal ), or if one team held a lead at the end of the first period of extra time ( silver goal ).