Today’s World Cup language podcast looks back at the quarter-final match between Argentina and Netherlands which the South American side won on penalties. We’ll be looking at the phrases, ‘melee‘, ‘squander a lead‘ and ‘to come out on top‘. 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.   2022 World Cup Language Podcast: Quarter final – Argentina v Netherlands Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'QsmRcgPCTzlDims3JuhTxA',sig:'Os6Gci4IDjT0QxtyZe3whBaQmVx4bNLtGyUZAGlmkYw=',w:'594px',h:'397px',items:'1245490151',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); DF: Hello again everyone and welcome to Languagecaster.com – the football-language podcast for learners and teachers of English. This is Damian and I’m based here in a freezing London – okay, it’s just minus 1 here but it’s still really cold! I’m one half of the Languagecaster team – the other one is Damon who is based in Japan. I wonder did Damon get up to watch the wonderful quarter-final action yesterday? I remember watching the 1998 World Cup when I was living in Japan and being absolutely exhausted by the end of the tournament with so many post-midnight matches. All great fun! Right, on today’s World Cup language podcast we will be looking back at one of the games of the tournament so far, the Argentina versus the Netherlands quarter-final game. What a match! Not so much for the quality but for sheer excitement and thrills and of course the bad blood between the two sides – there were 18 yellow cards (or cautions) handed out by the referee which is a World Cup record. The referee was described as ‘overly fussy‘ which is a great expression and means that the referee stopped the game every time there was an infringement or foul, no matter how small this might have been. The game looked as if it was done after Argentina scored their second goal in the 73rd minute thanks to a Messi penalty but amazingly the Dutch scored two late, very late goals, including a well-worked training routine free kick which surprised the Argentinian defence and sent the game into extra time. The football cliche ‘2-0 is the most dangerous of leads‘ was being used by many commentators at this point. No more goals in extra time meant penalties which the Argentinians managed to win to send them through to the semi-finals. Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.