Goalkeeping

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The art of a goalkeeper. uncountable

    "Karius has too much previous for this to be considered a one-off and, as goalkeeping mistakes go, his errors in the 51st and 83rd minutes were as bad as one another. In fact, they were not just bad. They were appalling, so wretched it was difficult to recall a worse goalkeeping performance in any major final through the years."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of goalkeep form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"Karius has too much previous for this to be considered a one-off and, as goalkeeping mistakes go, his errors in the 51st and 83rd minutes were as bad as one another. In fact, they were not just bad. They were appalling, so wretched it was difficult to recall a worse goalkeeping performance in any major final through the years."

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