Today’s World Cup language podcast looks back at some of the language from the 2022 World Cup semi-finals. We’ll be looking at the phrases, ‘to play in‘ and ‘to go behind‘. 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: The semi finals 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 very cold London – though at least the snow has gone – and I’m one half of the Languagecaster team and of course the other member Damon is based in Japan. Right, on today’s World Cup language podcast we will be looking back at the two semi-finals of the 2022 World Cup and explain some of the language that was used to describe some of the important goals from the two games. First up, we’ll discuss the Argentinian third goal against Croatia which was set up by Leo Messi – this means that he created or assisted the goal – we’ll talk about the phrase ‘to play in‘; ‘to play a teammate in‘. Then we will look at the first goal from the France-Morocco match scored by Theo Hernández and we’ll explain the phrase ‘to go or to fall behind‘. Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in French) To play in Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'wFSaEEj8TEVUWEj5-pd2zg',sig:'-aPQDuLVP0GHCUarEOXrBw6qJIef0gMRZ-UrkdRAGR4=',w:'594px',h:'408px',items:'1449019981',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); How many times have we wondered at the skills and technique of Argentina’s Leo Messi and here again in the first semi-final of the 2022 World Cup he produced another piece of magic that helped his team reach the final. He had already scored the first goal from the spot and had been involved in the second which was scored after a mazy run, or dribble, from Julián Álvarez but he kept the best till midway through the second half when he set up Álvarez to score his second and Argentina’s third. Messi received the ball on the halfway line with his back to goal and despite being closely marked by Croatian defender Joško Gvardiol, he dribbled with the ball until the