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own goal
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own goalnoun
(soccer) a goal that results when a player inadvertently knocks the ball into the goal he is defending
"the own goal cost them the game"
How to use own goal in a sentence?
I would consider today's outcome an own goal (by the industry committee) that has missed the opportunity to significantly influence the further process.
It is great for Singapore, and such an own goal for Hong Kong.
It's an own goal…they are shooting themselves in the foot. The biggest value add this country can have is its clean, green image and they are just ruining that image.
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It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself.
Fighting a pandemic is like a team trying to win a soccer match, you can’t win if some players are trying to score an own goal.
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- هدف في مرماهArabic
- автоголBulgarian
- autogolCatalan, Valencian
- EigentorGerman
- autogolSpanish
- oma maaliFinnish
- but contre son campFrench
- autogolGalician
- öngólHungarian
- sjálfsmarkIcelandic
- autorete, autogolItalian
- オウンゴールJapanese
- 자책골Korean
- gol samobójczy, samobójPolish
- gol contraPortuguese
- автогол, [[гол]] [[в]] [[свойRussian
- autogolAlbanian
- självmålSwedish
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