Come-from-behind?

[nq:1]What is the meaning of "come-from-behind" in this sentence? Landon Donovan scored in overtime to give San Jose a come-from-behind, ... that is hard to believe for soccer since it would require two scores in a relatively short period of time.[/nq]
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[nq:1]What is the meaning of "come-from-behind" in this sentence? Landon Donovan scored in overtime to give San Jose a come-from-behind, 3-2 victory over the Kansas City Wizards last night in Major League Soccer's Western Conference final.[/nq]
It means that the team that won was losing until late in the game. The Wizards might have been ahead by a score of 2 to 1 until San Hose scored a goal

I would just like to add that expression "come-from-behind" is used as a verb (for example, replaces "match" in the sentence you mentioned) - that's why the dashes link words. However, when you use it as a noun phrase ("Lakers came from behind"), dashes shall not be used.

[nq:1]I would just like to add that expression "come-from-behind" is used as a verb (for example, replaces "match" in the ... link words. However, when you use it as a noun phrase ("Lakers came from behind"), dashes shall not be used.[/nq]
Ignore Maciej. He couldn't parse a pivo.

Adrian

[nq:1]I would just like to add that expression "come-from-behind" is used as a verb (for example, replaces "match" in the ... link words. However, when you use it as a noun phrase ("Lakers came from behind"), dashes shall not be used.[/nq]
In the example sentence "come-from-behind" is actually used as an adjective "a come-from-behind ... victory".

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan

[nq:1]What is the meaning of "come-from-behind" in this sentence? Landon Donovan scored in overtime to give San Jose a come-from-behind, 3-2 victory over the Kansas City Wizards last night in Major League Soccer's Western Conference final.[/nq]
It's worth pointing out that Americans understand nothing at all about football (which they insist on calling soccer), so the meaning of this phrase i

[nq:2]What is the meaning of "come-from-behind" in this sentence? Landon ... Wizards last night in Major League Soccer's Western Conference final.[/nq]
[nq:1]It's worth pointing out that Americans understand nothing at all about football (which they insist on calling soccer), so the meaning of this phrase is entirely inconsequential. Why do you insist on not calling it soccer?[/nq]
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[nq:2] It's worth pointing out that Americans understand nothing at ... soccer), so the meaning of this phrase is entirely inconsequential.[/nq]
[nq:1]Why do you insist on not calling it soccer? Perhaps because for most people in the world the sport called ... the only kind of football they know of (plus it actually is played with the feet and the feet alone).[/nq]
Regrds, Einde O'Callagh

[nq:2] Why do you insist on not calling it soccer?[/nq]
[nq:1]Perhaps because for most people in the world the sport called "soccer", which comes from Association football (referring to the ... 690,000 hits on google from the UK 543,000 hits on google from Australia 55,600 hits on google from New Zealand[/nq]
I even see 265,000 hits on google from Germany.

"Soccer" is a term that

[nq:2] Perhaps because for most people in the world the ... actually is played with the feet and the feet alone).[/nq]
[nq:1]881,000 hits on google from Canada 690,000 hits on google from the UK 543,000 hits on google from Australia 55,600 ... that is used in most English speaking countries. "Soccer" is a term that is used in most English speaking countries.[/nq]
Well,yes it is, but only