slide tackle

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slide tackle

or sliding tackle
n.
A tackle in soccer in which the defender leaps forward or slides and extends a leg in order to disrupt the play or get possession of the ball. At some levels of play, slide tackles are illegal.

slide′-tack′le v.
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The striker, who plys his trade for Qatari side Al-Sadd, scored after a slide tackle committed by Salif Sane sent the shot curling into the top left corner to the bewilderment of the keeper.
"It's like a slide tackle in football but you're in no danger of getting hurt when your sliding in, but there is when you use your upper body.
"I just remember sliding in with my right foot - it probably looked more like a slide tackle than a volley or anything like that.
Pedro's in a spin Poor old Pedro couldn't even get a middle-finger salute right on a day he lost a third successive Old Firm game and was the victim of a comedy slide tackle from one of his own players on the touchline.
I wasn't the most skillful player but I knew exactly what I was doing, especially with the slide tackle, I was a master of that.
6 Managed to block a promising Sunderland move in the first half and harshly booked Can for a perfect slide tackle.
I am sure they would be the first to complain if I didn't pick up my dog's mess and just left it for them to discover halfway through a slide tackle.
Reid had earlier produced a superbly-timed slide tackle to deny Vittek a second goal for Slovakia after his firm finish from Stanislav Sestak's cross.
"In training he says that thinking about he can't slide tackle but when you watch him train he slide tackles because he is not thinking about it.
Three minutes later an incisive Sunderland move left David Dowson with a clear run on goal, only for Gosling to thwart the striker with a perfectly timed slide tackle.
Steven Gerrard is 4-1 to make the first slide tackle tonight
They pointed out how Boumsong regularly gets pulled out of position and does not hold a firm line, and highlighted Titus Bramble's "crazy" slide tackle which gave Villa an 88th-minute penalty.
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