shot on goal

noun

Hockey and Soccer.

plural

shots on goal 

1. a shot that enters the goal or would have entered the goal if it had not been blocked by the goalkeeper or another defensive player.

Example Sentences

"Smith has only got one thing on her mind when the ball comes to her feet - create half a yard, fire a shot on goal and force the goalkeeper into a save," said former England and Arsenal midfielder Fara Williams on BBC One.

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They had no shot on goal, no corner and an xG - expected goals, if such things float your boat - of 0.00 in the first half.

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It is easy to forget how good Brazil were in the last World Cup, where they lost in the quarter-finals on penalties to a Croatia team whose only shot on goal in the match took a cruel deflection.

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As a result, every faceoff, every forecheck, every shot on goal was imbued with extra meaning — whether the players and coach wanted to admit it or not.

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Seattle’s two best looks came in in the final 10 minutes, with Jordan Morris escaping defender Emiro Garces in the penalty area and then spinning to put a right-footed shot on goal that Galaxy keeper John McCarthy saved in the 35th minute — four minutes before McCarthy tipped an Albert Rusnak free kick from the edge of the box over the crossbar.

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