On today’s football language listening post we look at the phrase ‘Ease through‘ and explain how it can be used in football. For this audio report there is a transcript which is great for learners and teachers of English. If you have questions or comments about this, or any other football phrase, you can email us at: admin@languagecaster.com. Football Language: Ease through DF: Hello everyone, this is Damian from the Learning English Through Football team – we hope you are all well and in this short football language podcast, I am going to explain the phrase ‘ease through‘ which is used to describe a comfortable victory for a team in a knock-out competition. The verb ‘to ease‘ means to do something easily, such as winning a game without any difficulty, and when we add the particle ‘through’ to the verb this means that the team has qualified for the next round of the competition without any problems at all; the team has easily defeated their opponents to make the next round or stage of a competition. In the recent League Cup (Carabao Cup) tie between Lincoln City from League One and Liverpool, the Premier League champions, Liverpool eased though to the next round after thrashing Lincoln 7-2. The Reds hardly had to move out of first gear which suggests that they did not really have to work too hard to beat the minnows – they eased through to the next round. In another example, in recent Europa League qualifier, Tottenham eased through to the group stage after thrashing Maccabi 7-2. Other words or phrases connected to ease through include qualify, progress and advance to the next round though we would have to add another adverb to suggest that this progress or qualification was easy. So, a team comfortably progressed to the group stage, for example. Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Dutch). DF: Thanks everyone for listening – remember that you can access the transcript for this short report by coming along to our site at languagecaster.com and we’d love to hear from you so drop us a line at admin@languagecaster.com. Bye bye. Check out our glossary of footballing phrases here. If you have any suggestions, contact us at admin@languagecaster.com