Hello, everyone. This is Damian from the LanguageCaster
team and I hope you are all doing
well.
Now, as you may have noticed, we have
recently started posting some extra
football language podcasts each week.
And so, on today's
football phrase of the week, we'll look at
the expression
home form.
When we talk about form in football,
we describe how well or how badly
a team has been playing and whether or
not they are winning or losing
so good form means the team are winning
while if a team is in bad or
poor form then they are losing lots of
games
and probably playing badly too
there are lots of other phrases we can
use in football to describe when a team
is playing well
such as
an in form side
which is a team that is playing really
well and winning games at that moment.
Of course, the opposite
is an out of form side.
We can also talk about a good run
of form or a bad run of form
which describes how a team has been playing
over a series of matches.
So for example they win 4 games in
a row. They are in a good run
of form.
So in the Premier League this season,
Brentford from West London
have played 7 home games or 7 home
fixtures.
And they've won 6 and drawn the other
one. That's
19 points from 21
which is a great record.
In fact, they are the Premier League's best
performing team at home this season
ahead of Liverpool who have won 6 and
lost 1 game
and Arsenal
who have won 5 and drawn twice.
Brentford are clearly the in form side at
home,
so we can say that their home form
or their home record
is really good. They have good home form.
In fact, it's the best home form in
the league.
The home form of the bees, that's the
nickname of Brentford,
is remarkable
especially when compared to their away form.
Away from their own stadium,
they have only drawn
one of their 7 matches
and they've lost the remaining 6.
Sometimes
teams play better at home than away.
Maybe they are more accustomed
to their surroundings. They don't have to travel
and, of course, the fans are generally on
their side.
Their away form is not as good as
their home form at all this season so
far.
How is your favorite team's home form this
season?
And how would you say this expression in
another language?
Let us know by dropping us a line
at admin@languagecast.com.
We'll be back with some more football language
in our podcast later on in the week.
And until then, enjoy all the football.
Bye bye.