This short football language podcast looks at the phrases ‘to be outclassed‘ and ‘to outclass‘. 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.   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 a bright but cold London, while of course, the other member of the Languagecaster team is Damon who is based in Japan. I hope we are all doing well and enjoying all the football even us long-suffering Tottenham fans! On this podcast we take a look at a phrase ‘to be outclassed‘ that was used recently in a BBC match report on the Champions League game between Bruges and Benfica. We can use this verb to highlight the more dominant or stronger team (to outclass another side) or more commonly to refer to the team that has been outplayed or who has performed badly against their opponents (this isto be outclassed). 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. Learning English Through Football Podcast Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in French) OK, let’s take a look at the phrase to be outclassed. Outclassed Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'MFh8mSoYSm9iF0Q6a4wy_g',sig:'DfdxZfW23007R3cwF01-SmrUWJy90OGS_ih8Mj3LhhE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1247167925',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); So, as I mentioned before, I’ll be looking at the phrases ‘outclassed‘; ‘to be outclassed‘ or ‘to outclass‘ after a BBC report used them to describe Belgian side Bruges’ recent poor performance. In the recent Champions League last-16 first leg match between Belgian side Bruges and Portuguese team Benfica the phrase ‘outclassed‘ was used to describe the Belgian side who were easily beaten by Benfica despite being at home – they lost 0-2 and look like they will almost certainly not make the quarter-finals. If one team outclasses another team it means that they are much better than their opponent; they are far superior to their opponents in every way and they easily win the game – maybe even by a large scoreline. To be outclassed means that your own team has not played well at all and that the other team ...