World Cup

[tailin]

The World Cup has kicked off,while enjoying the game ,as a chinese ,I`m wondering are there some special words for football games? Is there a word that means one team beat the other by 2-0 or 3-0 or X-0?

[Tdol]

Not really. If they win by 3 goals or more, they thrash the other team (= beat very easily)

[Ouisch]

I don't know if they use this in British English, but if one team was scoreless (their final score was zero), we often say they were "skunked":


The Tigers skunked the Cardinals, 2-0.


Sometimes reading the sports page is like reading a thesaurus - there are so many different words and phrases used to describe the final score: Memphis trounced Arkansas, the Bulls pummeled the Bucks, Georgia was routed by Georgia Tech, Ohio State upset third-ranked Michigan, etc.

[Tdol]

I haven't heard 'skunked' in the UK.

[cleung]

It's called "shut-out." (Really wonder why no one seemed to have come up with this easy one.)

By the way, your sentences should read like these: The World Cup has kicked off. While enjoying the games, as a Chinese, I am wondering whether there are some special terms in soccer games? Is there a word that means one team beat the other by 2-0 or 3-0 or X-0? (I'm a Chinese, too, and English is my late second language.)