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goal area

noun

  1. soccer a rectangular area to the sides and front of the goal, measuring 20 × 6 yards on a full-sized pitch, from which goal kicks are taken Also calledsix-yard area
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“It was an intense game and a very strategic game. We lost because of a mistake we made in the goal area, with the penalty.â€

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Some years ago we trained bumblebees to roll tiny balls to a goal area to obtain a nectar reward—a form of object manipulation equivalent to human usage of a coin in a vending machine.

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Whyatt remembers the team playing on pitches like "ploughed fields" and having to "brush water and mud out of the goal area to be able to play" during some matches.

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Meanwhile, Gareth Bale, with five goals in his previous five appearances for Wales, came through after Dan James won a free kick on the edge of the goal area.

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Injuries have blighted his career but the way he was spraying those balls into the Watford goal area for Diogo Jota to attack was just mesmerising.

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