This week’s football language podcast looks back at some of the language from the 2022 World Club Cup final between Real Madrid and Al-Hilal. We’ll be looking at some phrases from The Guardian newspaper report on the high-scoring final including, ‘close range‘; ‘open the scoring‘ and ‘extend their lead‘. 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:'cA7l_dGMSh94_t4AyXsa1Q',sig:'J4xoN0nL7GPoHm_wlxQPDrnua5qb5_SaNEWD8V77ViM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1465132919',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); Hello DF: Hello again everyone and welcome to Languagecaster.com – the football-language podcast for learners and teachers of English. I’m Damian and I’m here in London, while of course, the other member of the Languagecaster team is Damon who is based in Japan. Now, on today’s short podcast I will be looking back at the 2022 FIFA Club World Cup final that recently took place in Morocco between Real Madrid and Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal. We’ll be explaining some of the words from a news report from The Guardian newspaper, including the expressions: ‘close range‘; ‘open the scoring‘ and ‘extend their lead‘. Now, remember that you can also access all of our other football-language podcasts – we have hundreds of them stretching back to October 2006 – by coming along to our site here at Languagecaster.com. Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (Al-Hilal SC (Sudan) fan) 2022 FIFA Club World Cup The 2022 Club World Cup took place recently in Rabat in Morocco with Real Madrid winning their fifth world title (plus three more intercontinental titles) – that’s the most by any team – as the European club champions defeated Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal, the Asian champions, 5-3 in the final. Madrid had easily beaten Al Ahly from Egypt 4-1 in the semi finals, while Al-Hilal shocked the Copa Libertadores winners Flamengo, beating the Brazilian team 3-2 to become the first team from Saudi Arabia to reach the final. Now, the competition will use a different format from 2025 with FIFA organising a 32-team tournament which is causing lots of controversy at the moment. But, let’s take a look at some of the phrases from the report on this year’s final.