penalty shootout
See also: penalty shoot-out
English
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Noun
penalty shootout (plural penalty shootouts)
- (soccer, field hockey) A series of penalties (penalty kicks in soccer), taken to decide a winner after a game has resulted in a tie and extra time has been played.
- 2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian[1]:
- This was an eighth game without defeat, penalty shootouts aside, over Hodgson's brief tenure but, by the end, this whole occasion had been stripped of any competitive nature.
Synonyms
- penalties
- penalty kicks (soccer)
Translations
a series of penalty kicks