The Argentine referee, Néstor Pitana, initially signaled a corner kick.
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Wonderfully worked corner kick by France there for their second.
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The opportunity came off a neat little corner kick move.
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France's corner kick is then cleared by the first man.
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And Ospina makes another great save on the corner kick!
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Luckily for Courtois, the ball trickled out for a corner kick.
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It took 25 minutes for Barcelona even to win a corner kick.
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Falcao with another great look at a header off a corner kick!
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Russia gets a corner kick but the ball is deflected out of danger.
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Instead of another corner kick, Panama has tied the score at 1-1.
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Aminu Umar connected with Mikel's corner kick to extend the lead in the 224th.
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The penalty was called by Brazilian referee Sandro Ricci on a Croatian corner kick.
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But Doyle responded with a header from Shkelzen Gashi's corner kick in the 55th minute.
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The goal followed a corner kick that led to Fabio Borini shooting hard and low.
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Courtois snatched a corner kick out of the air with 93:30 on the clock.
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Sergio Busquets gets a free header off a corner kick, but he puts it over.
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Croatia's second goal came on another corner kick, one of their six in the match.
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Steven Zuber scores with a header off a corner kick to make it 1-1.
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The goal was the result of a corner kick, which they played short to Juan Mata.
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Mazic stops play briefly to lecture about corner-kick behavior, but no one's listening to him.
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Popp scored on a 4-yard header off Lina Magull's corner kick, her 48th international goal.
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Separately: Italy defeated Australia on Sunday thanks to a last-minute header off a corner kick.
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Giancarlo Gonzalez popped free on a corner kick, but his back post header sailed well over.
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Luka Modric swung a corner kick in, before it was headed into the vicinity of Mandzukic.
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Saurez knew he should have scored minutes later, when a corner kick bounced onto his foot.
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If Iceland ever gets a throw deep in Argentina's end, it will essentially be corner kick.
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Buchanan charged into the box on a corner kick, and her header bounced into the goal.
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Zoltan Gera opened the scoring in the 19th minute on a sensational goal off a corner kick.
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Kaka takes a corner kick in Orlando City's 4-1 win over the Portland Timbers last night.
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Amandine Henry, France's captain, missed a right-footed volley off a corner kick in the 17th minute.
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The Barcelona defender scored his third header of the World Cup after a 93rd minute corner kick.
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Je-Vaughn Watson tied the score in the 13th minute off a corner kick by Kemar Lawrence.
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Sacha Kljestan lofted the ball to Zubar after a corner kick by Kljestan bounced right back to himself.
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Russia's corner kick pops out to Daler Kuziaev just outside the area, who rockets a shot back in.
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Rebic gets a head on the ensuing corner kick as well, but it goes a couple feet high.
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Women's World Cup: Italy defeated Australia on Sunday thanks to a last-minute header off a corner kick.
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On the ensuing corner kick Gerard Pique leaps high, but puts his header just inches past the post.
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His left-footed shot is punched out by Hugo Lloris for another corner kick, which amounts to nothing.
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In the 24th minute, Kei Kamara headed in Lee Nguyen's corner kick to tie it at 1-1.
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Samantha Mewis opened the scoring in the fifth minute with a header off a corner kick by Christen Press.
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First came the equalizing goal, when Robson-Kanu had won a corner kick and Williams was somehow left unmarked.
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They take a short corner kick, and Yerry Mina finishes a cross from James Rodriguez for Colombia's first goal.
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James Rodriguez tries to pump up the crowd on the ensuing corner kick, as if they need any encouragement.
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A Luka Modric corner kick was deflected toward the back post, and Mandzukic met it with a diving header.
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On a resulting corner kick, De Gea had to reach full stretch to keep out Cahill's close-range effort.
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Moments after an unsuccessful Red Bulls corner kick, Chicago's Dax McCarty gained possession and attempted to move the ball upfield.
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A corner kick had been cleared when Georgi Shchennikov, a C.S.K.A. player, launched the ball back into the goal mouth.
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Neymar almost scored direct from a corner kick and Renato Augusto also hit the woodwork with a long-range shot.
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Portugal had won a corner kick, and Ronaldo casually jogged into the center of the penalty area to receive it.
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How do you not mark the really tall defender in the middle of the penalty area on a corner kick?
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Panamanian defender Román Torres heads a corner kick toward the back post, where it is knocked down amid a scramble.
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But Cameron was far less composed three minutes later when defending the corner kick from which Colombia notched its first goal.
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After the teams traded goals, Ajax extended its lead to 3-1 in the 20193th minute off of a corner kick.
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To be safe, I kicked the ball out to give them a corner kick and it ended up in the net.
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England came into this tournament without a goal from a corner kick in 21986 attempts at major tournaments, dating to 247.
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South Korea has a corner kick, and as you might expect it's walking about as slowly as possible to take it.
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In the 12th minute, Saúl Ñíguez opened the scoring with a firm header at the near post off a corner kick.
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But France were more street wise, playing a careful, defensive game and striking with Samuel Umtiti's header from a corner kick.
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After a desperate moment of Swiss defending on a free kick and then a corner kick, the final whistle rescues them.
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In the 59th minute, Michael Orozco scored the tying goal on a 1-yard header that resulted from Michael Bradley's corner kick.
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But Mexico was persnickety and leveled yet again deep into stoppage time thanks to a header off of a corner kick. Hoooweee.
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Ertz's first career World Cup goal made it 21991-0 in the 26th minute, thanks to a corner kick by Tierna Davidson.
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Ronaldo scored with a long blast, on a free kick, on a short cross and with a header on a corner kick.
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Eric Dier came in on a corner kick and headed a third goal for England, putting the final score at 3-2.
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They've earned a couple set pieces in South Korea's half, including a corner kick just now, but none have been particularly threatening.
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Thiago Silva, the centerback, found himself with a great look off a corner kick, but his header went just over the bar.
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D.C. United had a corner kick in the fifth and final minute of stoppage time, and everybody came up for the last sequence.
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Eric Dier, a Tottenham Hotspur defender, then finished the job with a headed goal following a planned corner-kick routine in stoppage time.
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The Red Bulls' best scoring chance before that was in the 27th minute, when Tim Parker headed a corner kick off the post.
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For example, a ball deflected by a defensive player over the end line gives the opposition a corner kick — a goal-scoring opportunity.
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Francisco Calvo tied the score off a corner kick in the 42nd minute, outleaping a Canadian defender and redirecting the ball past Borjan.
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" He added: "I think it was a good defensive performance against a very good Colombia side, aside from the corner kick and the penalty.
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But as Sterling approached the touchline to collect the ball for a corner kick in Manchester City's Premier League game at Chelsea on Dec.
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She scored the winner by outjumping Australia's star forward, Sam Kerr, for a cross at the back post off a last-gasp corner kick.
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Any lingering prospect of a comeback was dashed in the 58th minute by Alex Greenwood, who scored off a low corner kick from Duggan.
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Harry Kane made a swim move around Carlos Sánchez on the corner kick, and as he was stumbling toward goal Sánchez shoved him down.
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The 6-foot-5 defender rose above the Senegalese defense on a 74th-minute corner kick and headed the ball home from close range.
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It was a clean corner kick to a direct header, that left the keeper no option, but to rake the ball out of the net.
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Lurking near the back post, Ibrahimovic evaded his defender on a corner kick to nod the ball in from close range in the 73rd minute.
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The goal came off a corner kick as Janine Beckie delivered a ball toward the box and Buchanan came charging forward to head the ball.
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Dax McCarty headed in an out-swinging corner kick from Sacha Kljestan to open the scoring, and the two connected again in the 51st minute.
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While tangling during a corner kick in the first half on Sunday, defender Robert Huth of Leicester pulled on the expansive hair of Marouane Fellaini.
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In the research, balls were launched at players by a machine in an attempt to mimic the speed and trajectory of a typical corner kick.
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Right after Russia had a golden opportunity on a counterattack, Croatia scores a dagger of a goal off a corner kick on the other end.
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Carrasco netted a well-placed corner kick by Will Johnson in Orlando City's first win against the Red Bulls (22-23-21) since September 33.
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And every time, the US kept coming back — including when Rapinoe somehow scored directly off a corner kick — until the game was tied 3–3.
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Morris put the United States ahead with his eighth international goal, a six-yard, right-footed volley after Dest flicked on Sebastian Llleget's corner kick.
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A corner kick by Lodeiro was flicked on by Gustav Svensson and found Morris, who was standing about two yards in front of the goal.
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Centerback Kostas Manolas scored the decisive goal with a header from a corner kick in the 20153nd minute amid a deafening atmosphere inside the Stadio Olimpico.
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Divock Origi and Georginio Wijnaldum scored two goals apiece, with Origi scoring the go-ahead goal off of a tricky corner kick from Trent Alexander-Arnold.
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Defender Toby Alderweireld scored after a Tottenham corner kick, and two minutes later Kane curled in a beauty from the left edge of the penalty area.
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Big Artem Dzyuba rose highest on the corner kick, and headed the ball off of Gerard Pique's arm, which was sticking up straight in the air.
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Luis Suárez made it 4-0 before halftime, and Ivan Rakitic headed in a corner kick by Dembele in the final minutes to complete the rout.
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Vitória got Canada's goal after Jonathan Osorio headed on a corner kick, and Zardes scored his second after a cross by DeAndre Yedlin rebounded to him.
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She showed off her skills on the international stage with a stunning header off of a corner kick during the USWNT's group stage match against Chile.
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I feel like my zone is when I'm giving a wink to the crowd for corner kick and I'm sort of aware of everything that's going on.
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Dzyuba gets his head on a corner kick on the other end, but can't get enough power to trouble Subasic, who collects it easily off the bounce.
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Harry Kane scored for England early off a corner kick rebound, but Tunisia equalized on a Ferjani Sassi penalty, their only shot on target in the half.
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Silva took the corner kick and Yaya Toure was able to head it down in front of Agüero who hammered it past the Kiev keeper, Oleksandr Shovkovskyi.
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In the sixth minute, Rafael Morales beat Mix Diskerud to a corner kick and nodded off Diskerud and past goalkeeper Tim Howard to put Guatemala ahead, 20-20163.
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When Adrien Rabiot scored just before the hour — after what can be described only as horrendous marking by City on a corner kick — it felt even more certain.
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Most notably at the referee separating players before a corner kick and for calling a foul, and at Gerard Piqué for sliding in two-footed on a challenge.
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Rooney's red card against the Red Bulls came after VAR spotted the infraction, which the referee had not seen in a crowded penalty area at a corner kick.
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Costa netted the second in the 50th as West Ham midfielder Pedro Obiang flicked Cesc Fàbregas's corner kick straight to Costa, who nudged it in from close range.
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The previous weekend, a glass bottle was thrown from the same section of the stadium as Scott Sinclair of Celtic prepared to take a corner kick against Hibs.
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Youssef En-Nesyri, who came in earlier for Khalid Boutaïb, leapt and met a corner kick with his head, powering the ball into an empty corner of the goal.
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McKennie, the 20-year-old American midfielder, made the difference in the 88th minute when he leapt unmarked at the far post to head in Yevhen Konoplyanka's corner kick.
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Toni Kroos scored an audacious goal directly from a corner kick on Wednesday, helping Real Madrid to a 3-1 victory over Valencia in the Spanish Super Cup semifinal.
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Only then France earned a corner kick a few minutes before the interval and, as the ball swung in, Germany's captain, Bastian Schweinsteiger, challenged for it with his arms raised.
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Just before halftime, Hamsik received a pass from a short corner kick and again cut inside before whipping a perfect shot into the far corner of the goal behind Akinfeev.
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But Mateus Uribe's speculative long-distance shot caused a corner kick, and Yerry Mina once again gave Colombia a needed goal on just Colombia's second scoring chance of the match.
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Toni Kroos scored an audacious goal directly from a corner kick on Wednesday night, helping Real Madrid to a 3-503 victory over Valencia in the Spanish Super Cup semifinal.
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Leicester were awarded a corner kick in the 15 minute and Marc Albrighton fired it into the penalty area where Robert Huth was able to get his head to it.
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And, as if Chelsea needed any more luck, they were awarded a corner kick in the 88th minute, which Branislav Ivanovic headed home with perfect height and precision: Goodnight, sweet Southampton.
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In the third minute, Argentina played a short pass off a corner kick, and Lavezzi pushed the ball back to Messi, who was standing alone just outside the 18-yard box.
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On penalty corners (field hockey's version of soccer's corner kick) and on penalty strokes (field hockey's name for penalty shots), the kicking back dons a face mask and chest protector. Thanks.
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Hart tipped Jasmin Kurtic's header onto the bar off a corner kick early in the second half, and he stifled two one-on-one chances after sloppy England passes were intercepted.
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The Galaxy got on the board in the 66th minute as Ibrahimovic headed home a corner kick, his 23rd goal of the season and his 45th in 50 career MLS matches.
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Branislav Ivanovic tries to defuse an attack with a back pass, but it is much too hard and much too close to the goal, and goes out for a corner kick.
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Pulisic also assisted on the first of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang&aposs three goals, flicking Ousmane Dembele&aposs corner kick to the far post for the fourth-minute goal that tied the matchup.
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You could ask where the defense was during both of Madrid's scores, along with when Gerard Piqué struck Barcelona's only goal with a header following a corner kick earlier in the game.
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After forward Jozy Altidore failed to clear a corner kick aimed at New Zealand's Michael Boxall, Patterson popped up to thump the loose ball into the net from about 5 yards out.
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Anthony finished the move under the basket, and as the ball slipped through the net, he head-butted it back into the air, like a soccer defender clearing out a corner kick.
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The Alavès substitute Manu Garcìa sent the fans at Mendizorroza Stadium into ecstasy when he headed in a corner kick knocked on by a teammate on the last touch of the game.
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In the third minute, Megan Rapinoe skipped a corner kick from the left side toward the near post, where Sam Mewis came toward the ball before letting it run through her legs.
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Tottenham had 34 attempts on goal, but in a surprise, the winner came from left back Danny Rose, who scored in the 77th minute after Swansea failed to clear a corner kick properly.
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It came off a short corner kick and Rapheal sent in a high delivery that Ronaldo soared and seemingly hung in the air for before powering it into the back of the net.
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Belgium goalkeeper Thibault Courtois grabbed a corner kick and rolled the ball to Kevin De Bruyne, who dribbled to the top of the center circle and passed to Thomas Meunier on the right.
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Orlando held a 1-0 lead through the 95th minute, the last minute of stoppage time, but Baroka were awarded a corner kick for what was likely the last play of the match.
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Dax McCarty lost his man to score a header off a corner kick in the third minute, and when N.Y.C.F.C. did not learn its lesson, he repeated the feat in the second half.
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City made clearing a corner kick look more like an elementary school fire drill, with the end result being Bacary Sagna flailing at David Luiz and tripping him to concede a penalty kick.
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Barbara Bonansea headed in a corner kick five minutes into second-half injury time — her second goal of the game — to give Italy a 221-218 victory over Australia in Valenciennes on Sunday.
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Then, with just nine minutes left in regulation time, the substitute Youssef En-Nesyri rose above the Spanish defense on a corner kick and headed home a goal to make it 2-1.
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Harry Kane's header from four yards out off a corner kick, just seconds into stoppage time, salvaged a game that seemed destined to become one more painful chapter in England's major competition melodrama.
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White, who entered the game in the 76th minute, scored her 20th goal in 60 games with England, seconds after Lucy Bronze had cracked a shot off the crossbar following a corner kick.
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Alex Morgan continued her impressive goal-scoring run with a shot from the middle of the box after a corner kick 10 minutes before the break and added a penalty kick in the 84th.
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Chasing down a flat cross on the doorstep of the back post, Renard tried to flick the ball out for a corner kick but got square contact and put it straight into her net.
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Nearly three minutes into the game on Thursday, a corner kick by Megan Rapinoe with help from Lindsey Horan put the women up 1-0 — becoming the fastest goal scored in this tournament, NPR reports.
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Three minutes into the second half, Mascherano, Argentina's veteran defender, who has looked every day of his 219 years, took down Leon Balogun with a rugby tackle in the penalty area on a corner kick.
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On my first attempt at a corner kick in decades, the soccer ball peels up and away, well behind the goal and clear over the fence surrounding Stanton Field, the practice pitch at Santa Clara University.
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One of them, a corner kick in the 27th minute, resulted in an apparent goal that was overturned by video review after the scorer, Griedge Mbock Bathy, was determined to have been a few inches offside.
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A corner kick dribbles by the goal line but isn't put it, a Busquets shot from outside the box is blocked, and Iranian keeper Alireza Beiranvand parries the rebound away just before Lucas Vázquez gets there.
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In the end it was a defender who made the difference, as Gimenez rose above a crowd to put his forehead to a corner kick and smash the ball into the right corner of the goal.
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The Brazilian steadied the team with a fantastic and instinctive one-handed save early in the game, but after 52 minutes, he failed to reach a corner kick, and Óscar Duarte powerfully headed Espanyol into the lead.
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About 55 minutes into the match and with USA holding a surprising 1-0 lead, France had a corner kick that led to America's Matt Miazga and France's Olivier Giroud jumping up and accidentally butting heads ... hard.
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Modric scored a second half penalty to secure the win after Croatia went ahead through a first half own goal by Nigeria midfielder Oghenekaro Etebo which flowed in from a corner kick by the Real Madrid midfielder.
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In the eighth minute, Harrison found himself with space on the right side off a corner kick and then beat goalkeeper Luis Robles with an angled right-footed shot inside the near post from 10 yards out.
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During Tuesday night's Copa Italia match against Bologna, standing just beside the penalty spot with his back to goal, dude found a corner kick with his right foot well overhead and hit it cleanly into the net.
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One incident appeared to be captured on video in the second half when a fan seemed to mimic monkey gestures in front of United's Fred and Jesse Lingard as a corner kick was about to be taken.
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Mexico had the better of the first half and Honduras improved in the second period, almost grabbing an equalizer direct from a corner kick when keeper Jesus Corona had to look smart to punch out Alex Lopez' inswinger.
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It was breathtaking to see him on Saturday when, after a corner kick against City, he burst with the ball past one, two, three of the Chelsea players who were preferred over him during his time in London.
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The most baffling highlight of the game came in the 210th minute, when an Ajax corner kick deflected off the far post, into the face of Chelsea keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga, and then into the back of the net.
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Ronaldo's goal came early — a fourth-minute header after Morocco inexplicably lost track of him on a corner kick — but it was enough for a 1-0 victory that put Portugal on the verge of the knockout stage.
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This is the first World Cup in which the video assistant referee system, or V.A.R., is being used, and in the third minute of added time, the South Koreans took a corner kick that the Germans struggled to clear.
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The South Americans did not take long to strike with Cristian Zapata delivering the first goal in the eighth minute, the defender seizing on a corner kick from the left and volleying the ball into the back of the net.
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Russia won a corner kick, Alexander Samedov fired it in and Dzyuba headed it directly onto the arm of Spain's Gerard Piqué — who, for some reason, had jumped to challenge Dzyuba with his back turned and one arm over his head.
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But a moment of sloppy ball-handling by Tunisia as regulation time expired gave England a corner kick in stoppage time, and a ball deflected off Harry Maguire toward an open Kane on the back post of the Tunisia goal.
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United States 2, El Salvador 0 PHILADELPHIA — Jozy Altidore could not believe what had just occurred while skirmishing for position ahead of a corner kick: El Salvador defender Henry Romero bit the back of his left shoulder, then twisted his nipple.
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And in the 216th minute, a Brazilian defensive lapse (and a bit of a shove) on a corner kick gave the Swiss the moment they needed, with Steven Zuber nodding a ball past Alisson from right in front of the net.
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Forward Lindsey Horan nodded in a goal off a corner kick past diving Belgian goalkeeper Nicky Evrard in the 26th minute and midfielder Samantha Mewis effectively put the game out of Belgium's reach with a header to put the hosts 4-0 ahead.
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After a stunted start to the game, the United States played significantly better in the second half and had openings to win, only to switch off completely on a corner kick that allowed Márquez to flick in a header in the 89th minute.
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His bicycle kick goal off a corner kick in the second half was the difference in a 1-0 United States victory, helping the Americans top their Gold Cup group and advance to face Curacao in the quarterfinals in Philadelphia on Sunday night.
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Good thing, because the destruction began early, with defender John Stones getting so free for a header on a corner kick in the 225th minute that he looked more stunned than joyous when the ball sailed into the back of the net.
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Twelve years after one of soccer&aposs most infamous moments, Samuel Umtiti used his head to score from a corner kick in the 19983st minute and earn France a 1-0 victory over Belgium on Tuesday in the first of the all-European semifinals.
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In today's Round of 16 matchup between Germany and Slovakia, Toni Kroos sent in a corner kick for Germany that received some decent clearance by Slovakia—would that Boateng weren't there to slather on one of the nastiest volleys you'll see in a minute.
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The few decent looks either team managed early, though, were wasted; Toronto's Jonathan Osorio pounded an open shot right at goalkeeper Stefan Frei in the 12th minute, and Seattle defender Roman Torres sent an attempt off a corner kick high over the Toronto goal.
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Lloyd gave the Americans the lead with a rifled left-footed shot in the 11th minute and then, after Ertz doubled the lead off a corner kick, added her second goal with a header of her own off a corner in the 35th minute.
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They are comprehensively better than Panama, who have gifted the Three Lions two penalties, left John Stones (John Stones!) completely unmarked on both a corner kick and free kick to score two goals, and have been sloppy with the few chances they did have.
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Here's how England beat Tunisia, from Kevin Draper: On England's seventh corner kick of the match, Harry Maguire met the ball at the penalty spot, and deflected it to the back post, where Harry Kane was waiting to head it past Farouk Ben Mustapha.
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Lawrence, who scored in a 1-0 semifinal win Sunday against Mexico, took another corner kick in the 75th minute moments after a shot by Alvas Powell from close range deflected off Graham Zusi — a sequence that had goalkeeper Tim Howard yelling at the defense.
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FC Dallas rallied from a 3-0 deficit after 56 minutes to tie the host Montreal Impact, 3-3, scoring two goals in the final five minutes, including a header by Ryan Hollingshead off a corner kick by Michael Barrios in the 90th minute to tie it.
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As the corner kick entered the box, Chelsea keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga dove to make the save, but instead was struck directly in the face by the ball after it hit off the post, deflecting it into the net for Chelsea's second own goal of the night.
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Though I still can't remember the difference between a corner kick and a penalty, I'll remember 2018 as the World Cup when I managed to read several books, cook a lasagna from scratch and cheer on Mexico's national team, just to stick it to President Trump.
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Roldan made it 2-813 with an unassisted goal in the 55th minute, corralling a corner-kick clearance at the top of the 18-yard box before dribbling past one defender and unleashing a left-footed, 15-yard shot into the right side of the net.
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After Madrid dominated the first 15 minutes of play, Ronaldo erased Wolfsburg's first-leg advantage in less than two minutes, tapping in a goal from close range off a deflected cross from Dani Carvajal and then, in the 17th minute, scoring on a perfect header from a corner kick.
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Barcelona seemed to regain its composure after the blistering start: Alexia nearly put her team on the board with a header off a corner kick just before halftime, and the Dutch forward Lieke Martens and the Spanish midfielder Vicky Losada both missed golden opportunities in the second half.
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The first goal came in the 983th minute, when Ashley Young floated a corner kick from the left side, spinning the ball toward the penalty spot, where Harry Maguire rose over the back of Sweden's Emil Forsberg and thumped a header into the left corner of the goal.
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With just over 10 minutes remaining, Jérôme Boateng, the German defender, was marking Giorgio Chiellini after a corner kick, and as the ball came into the penalty area, he threw his arms in the air to show the referee, as demonstratively as possible, that he was not holding his opponent.
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On the first goal, in the seventh minute, Mix Diskerud was beaten to a corner kick by Rafael Morales, who nodded the ball just inside the near post, which had been left unattended — despite instructions to the contrary that Coach Jurgen Klinsmann had written out on the dry erase board in a pregame meeting.
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D.C. United had sent everyone, including its goalkeeper, forward to try to score off a late corner kick, a risky decision that seemed even more ill-advised when the ball was cleared toward midfield and Rooney found himself in a footrace with Orlando City's Will Johnson — and as the last man between Johnson and D.C. United's open net.
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Norway 3, Nigeria 0 Three goals in the first 37 minutes, the last of which was an own goal by Nigerian fullback Osinachi Ohale, lifted the Norwegians to a comfortable victory and a tie with France atop Group A. Midfielder Guro Reiten tallied first in the 17th minute with a deflected shot after Norway played short from a corner kick.
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Colombia was leagues short of clinical and did not manage a goal from open play, relying instead on an eighth-minute corner kick strike from Cristián Zapata and a 42nd minute penalty from James Rodriguez to claim the three points in Group A. Still, they dominated the United States on Friday night at Levi's Stadium, reigniting nearly every concern about whether Jurgen Klinsmann has a plan for resuscitating American soccer and if the requisite pieces are even on hand.
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