Sportsmen and sportswomen want to ____, not lose matches. But you can’t win all the time! Sometimes a team or player deserves to win, but gets narrowly ____. Before they go in for / ____, athletes train hard. They probably ____ at least five training sessions a week. They are likely to put up ____to gain/get a place in the next ____of the competition. Of course, a sportsperson’s ultimate aim is to break the world record in their sport. If they succeed, they set a new world record and become a ____. They are sure to come up against ____ competition as they try to achieve their ambitions. Sometimes they are satisfied if they just achieve a ____. Some sports people so desperately want to win that they take drugs to ____. This will be discovered when they fail a drugs test. You can play or have a (football) ____(of football). It might be a home or an ____ depending on whether you’re playing on your team’s ____ or not. The aim is to ____ a goal. Players may ____ an opponent to try to take ____ of the ball. If you tackle in an illegal way, you ____ your opponent. This will lead to the referee blowing his whistle and an opponent taking a penalty or taking a free kick. If someone isn’t playing very well the manager may decide to ____ the player from the team or ____a substitute. Both teams hope that they will have taken the lead by half-time.

Winning or losing + football: sports collocation

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