Today’s World Cup language podcast looks back at some of the language from the 2022 World Cup final. We’ll be looking at some phrases from The Guardian newspaper report on the extraordinary final including, ‘on penalties‘; ‘unplayable‘ and ‘side-on volley‘. 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.   Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'mYbOgMytSKFAQXw6739Ptg',sig:'I6XEMDQrnWMIj0U9xWhz6NPnQFdISFTyvo8h2NiHmYw=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1450194929',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); 2022 World Cup Language Podcast: The final 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 London and I’m one half of the Languagecaster team with of course the other member Damon based in Japan. I wonder did he manage to get up and watch the final – the World Cup final – live? And what a final it was! Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Danish) Right, on today’s World Cup language podcast we will be looking back at some of the language used to describe some of the key moments from that amazing 2022 World Cup final. Congratulations to Argentina on winning their third World Cup title after an incredible game that finished 2-2 after 90 minutes and then 3-3 after extra time with Argentina finally winning 4-2 in the penalty shoot out. We’ll discuss the term ‘on penalties‘ which of course was the way that the title was decided, while we’ll also look at some of the words and phrases to describe Mbappé’s performance including the phrase ‘side-on volley‘. We also explain two terms that describe poor misses – specifically for the French side: ‘failed to convert’ and ‘drag wide‘. Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in French) On penalties Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'aG395W5bQuRj4LGdQawCwg',sig:'w7P6oIjjJ8E-erMhRx3SipdcHqXV2EOR0-fP53XnUX8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1450119596',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); When a game in the knock-out rounds of a tournament such as the World Cup finishes level after 90 minutes it moves into extra time. This is a period of two 15-minute halves in order to see if one of the teams can find a winner.