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defender
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With Guehi, 25, expected to leave on a free, a new central defender will need to be signed without the financial benefit of an incoming transfer fee.
As a tactic, this looks identical to 'screening' in basketball, a move in which a player stands still to block a nearby defender, allowing space for their team-mates to move freely around them.
He used to play youth football at age 6 and was so scared of being tackled that he kept running away from defenders when he had the ball.
Perales, who has been in the militia for decades, sees his role as a "defender" of his street, the neighbourhood where he lives, what he knows.
He immediately launched a pass downfield to Lemon, who juked two defenders out of their shoes on his way into the end zone.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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