Too much meat
"81 min: Roma plays some delightfully zippy passes among their front line before working the ball out to Peres, overlapping on the right. He whips a cross into the near post where Dzeko is hanging in the air and primed to score his hat-trick. But he gets too much meat on his header and not enough glance. It’s wide by an inch. A bad miss. But we’ll let him off." (The Guardian's football live report.)
What does he gets too much meat on his header and not enough glance exactly mean and why will we let him off in the context above?
Top answer
"too much meat on his header" means that he hit the ball too full. e. the ball should have bounced off his head at a shallower angle.
- "too much meat on his header" means that he hit the ball too full.
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- the ball should have bounced off his head at a shallower angle.
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- the writer is forgiving him, notionally speaking for others too (hence "we" rather than "I").
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"too much meat on his header" means that he hit the ball too full. What he should have achieved was more of a "glance", i.e. the ball should have bounced off his head at a shallower angle.
"we'll let him off" means "we'll excuse his mistake", i.e. the writer is forgiving him, notionally speaking for others too (hence "we" rather than "I").
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Dzeko just needed to bring his head gently to the ball so as to deflect it into the net. Instead, he hit it too squarely and too directly - so the angle was too sharp. Too much of his head came into contact with the ball
However, he is a good and loyal player (and has already scored two goals) so we are not going to criticise him too much. If someone is called to a court of la
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