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You're listening to the Footglitch Podcast.

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Love football, learn English.

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How did the Swiss manage to beat the Italians?

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What were the key moments in the Germany-Denmark game?

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Who was the unfortunate hero in the same game?

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And what's a stonewall penalty?

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Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of the Footglitch Podcast.

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My name is Denik Lukas and the Footglitch Podcast is your way to learn English through football.

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And today I would like to talk about the first day of the round of 16.

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There were two matches and they were Switzerland-Italy and then also Germany-Denmark.

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Both these games ended 2-0.

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You would think, okay, Italy beat Switzerland, right?

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And Germany beat Denmark.

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Almost, you would almost be right.

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Yes, Germany did beat Denmark 2-0, but so did Switzerland-Italy.

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That's right, Switzerland made it to the quarter-final.

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Is that shocking?

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Well, it shouldn't be because Switzerland have been playing really great football.

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They haven't been beaten yet.

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They had five points in the group stage.

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They even drew against Germany.

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And lo and behold, they beat Italy and it was well deserved.

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From the first second of the game, they really wanted to win.

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The Swiss players' spirit was incredible.

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Everyone was just playing for each other.

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Everyone was running around and pressing and doing the nitty-gritty, doing hard work.

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And they also dominated the possession in the first half.

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And they had more shots on goal, more attacking opportunities, more passing.

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Especially in the first half, it may have changed a little bit in the second half because of the way the game was going.

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But basically, Italy were not able to deal with the Swiss.

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They were aggressive. They were just brilliant in that game.

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And Italy showed absolutely nothing.

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There were some signs of problems in the group stage.

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There were some signs of problems.

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They barely made it to the playoffs.

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They barely made it to the knockout stages.

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And now this was how it sort of played out in the end.

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The Swiss scored their first goal in the 37th minute through Freuler and then made it 2-0 right after the halftime in the 46th minute through an excellent goal by Vargas.

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It was an amazing, brilliant, top-bins finish.

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Just check it online, listeners.

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Have a look on YouTube. Vargas 2-0 for Switzerland.

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And since then or from that moment, Italy, they just looked clueless.

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As I said, they only had one shot on target.

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You can't really do anything in the game if you can't even shoot on target, right?

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The Swiss really kept the Italians at bay.

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For example, Gianluca Scamacca, the ex-West Ham player, David Moyes didn't like much.

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He has been unable to score goals for a long, long time now.

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And yeah, so I'm not surprised that Italians are out.

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Historically, you may think, well, Italians are one of the football's powerhouses.

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Yeah, but like their squad in 2024.

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They looked like nothing in comparison to their past iterations, honestly.

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I think the Italians' problems are quite big, quite noticeable.

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And they are struggling at the moment to maintain their footballing dominance.

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And we have to remind ourselves that they did not qualify for the last two World Cups.

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Yes, they did win the previous European Championship, the one that happened during Covid.

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But that's about it.

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Maybe it was a bit of a miracle, really, considering how much on decline Italian football has been.

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It's a real problem, I think.

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They have to deal with it somehow.

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Ironically, three of the Switzerland's key players, including Freuler, Abichir, who assisted the second goal,

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they play for Bologna, this season's surprising team of Serie A, a team that did really, really well.

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Yeah, it's interesting that Italian football, I think they have a problem

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because foreign players are dominating the top Italian clubs as well.

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And perhaps you could say that it's a bit unsurprising that this happened.

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But still, you would think that Italy put up a fight.

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Well, really, no.

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So for some, this may have been a shocking result, for others, not really.

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For me, what did I expect?

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I kind of expected a penalty shootout.

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I expected an even game.

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Now, the Swiss, they beat the Italians.

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There you go.

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And in the other game, Germans beat the Danish.

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And I would say this was another weird game, honestly,

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because it looked like the Danish were the better team in the first 20, 30 minutes.

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But then the storm hit.

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When I say the storm hit, this is not a metaphor.

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There was a real thunderstorm in Dortmund.

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And the referee, I think it was Mark Oliver, he had to interrupt the game.

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And the players had to go back to the dressing room for about 20, 30 minutes

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because there was too much thunderstorm and lightning and hail, huge, huge balls of hail.

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And obviously, this was dangerous to the players.

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And that sort of, I would say, that sort of interrupted the momentum a little bit

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for the Danish, who started the game really well.

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And then a big moment, the biggest talking point of this game, obviously, was Anderson.

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Not Hans Christian Anderson, not the poet, not the guy that wrote the fairy tales.

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No, there is a player Anderson in the Danish team.

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And I can't remember his first name, but his surname is definitely Anderson.

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And he's a right back.

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He plays as a right back.

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And he scored a goal.

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He scored a goal for Denmark in the 48th minute.

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Yeah. So they were like two half times, basically, because of that interruption,

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the weather interruption, and then they did it again because obviously you need half time.

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So he scored.

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But unfortunately, this goal was disallowed, was ruled out for a marginal offside.

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It was literally like one centimeter when they were showing the images.

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It looked so harsh on the Swiss player.

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We could barely see it with the naked eye, that offside.

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But that's what happened, you know.

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The goal was disallowed.

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And to make things worse, two minutes later, the same player,

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unfortunately for him, gave away a penalty because he touched the ball with his hand.

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And it was one of those that a sound clip had to be played again,

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and the spike had to be shown on screen.

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I don't know how you feel about these, but I just don't like it at all,

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because obviously the Czech Republic, they were also on the receiving end with this rule.

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And it seems like these handball penalties, they are extremely harsh on the players.

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With this one in particular, Andersson was, I think, like one and a half meters away

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from the German guy who crossed the ball.

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And so, you know, the rule of handball is really hard to understand sometimes,

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because you have to take into account several aspects of that situation, of that moment.

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First of all, obviously, is it in the penalty box, right?

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Does the player have the hand in a natural position?

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Now, nobody knows what the natural position is, of course.

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If that hand is next to the player's body, it's almost never a handball, right?

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But if you raise your hand a little bit, well, then you have to determine

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whether that is a natural or unnatural position, which is really sometimes hard to call.

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And then it should be about proximity, like how far the player is from the ball.

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And does the player have any chance to react?

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In my opinion, in this case, the player had zero chance to react.

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It was extremely harsh on the Danish.

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And Germans were awarded a penalty for this.

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I honestly don't know. It just felt a bit too much for me,

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especially like I think everybody felt for this guy, Andersson, the player,

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because he scores the goal and then two minutes later he gives away a penalty,

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which leads obviously to the Germans' first goal.

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Kai Havertz made it one nil from penalty spot.

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Yeah, I just don't know. VAR can sometimes be so stupid

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because any small touch seems to be a handball on the international level.

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It's weird because I'm used to watching the Premier League

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and it's definitely not like that there.

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So I just don't understand the rule anymore.

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If any of you understand the rule of handball, please let me know how it works.

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Because when you hear the experts and pundits talk in the studios,

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they don't understand it either.

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Anyway, then Jamal Musiala made it two nil and scored his third goal of the tournament,

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which puts him now level in the Golden Boot competition with Lukaku's disallowed VAR goals.

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Yeah, Jamal Musiala, I think there is one more player from Georgia

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who has the same number of goals.

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So yeah, well, Germans, they got it done and it wasn't pretty,

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but in the end I suppose they were the better team, all things considered.

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Perhaps you could say it was a game of two halves a little bit.

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Or was it a game of three halves? Something like that.

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But we've got two teams in the quarter-finals. It's Switzerland and Germany.

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All right, guys, well, it's time to teach you something now.

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So I'll speak to you soon.

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All right, welcome back to the Language Corner.

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In this part of the show, as always, I'm going to do my job,

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and that is an English teacher, and teach you something.

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Of course, because this podcast is called the Footgris podcast, right?

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So we talk about football first, and then we need to talk about English as well.

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So this time I would like to take a look at the word penalty.

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You all know what a penalty is, right?

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When a penalty is given, you have all played football, you have all watched football.

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I don't need to explain that.

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But let's talk about words which are used before the word penalty.

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Let's talk about collocations with the word penalty.

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So we have often adjectives which are used to describe the penalty.

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So we could talk about a harsh penalty.

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A harsh penalty is what I said when I was talking about the Anderson situation.

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It was a harsh penalty.

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It was a severe and overly strict punishment.

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It seemed too strict on the player.

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Now it's var, it happens more often than not.

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Now a similar one could be a dubious penalty or a controversial penalty or soft penalty.

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You really don't think these penalties should be given or at least there are different interpretations of that decision.

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Like it shouldn't be given, right?

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So those are penalties which are not 100 percent.

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The opposite would be a stonewall penalty.

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A stonewall penalty is a penalty that is clear, undeniable, and there is an obvious offense and you can't question it at all.

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So similarly you could say unquestionable penalty.

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You could say a fair penalty possibly.

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You could say a clear-cut penalty.

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So it's very useful to learn these adjectives that go with the word penalty because then you're able to describe the kind of penalty it was.

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Okay, I guess that will be it for today.

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