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away goal
noun
a goal scored by a team playing away from its home ground. Away goals count for more than home goals in certain competitions
Example Sentences
It turns out the fastest goal before Doucoure was actually by Bournemouth's Colin Clarke, after 11 seconds in a League Cup tie in 1985, but I still hold the record for the fastest away goal there in a men's league game and no-one is taking that away from me, because I don't think Southampton will score at all on Sunday.
Juventus grabbed an away goal on the stroke of half-time when David Trezeguet stabbed in a deflected shot from Alessandro del Piero.
And with a frustrated Herediano pushing for an away goal to get back in the playoff, Ramirez closed out the scoring against the run of play in the 76th minute.
It feeds into the notion of the classic, archetypal 'away goal' - soak up pressure, win the ball back and hit the home side on the break.
Brentford's Yehor Yarmoliuk had been pulling at the striker's shirt, as the Brighton man looked to race at the away goal, with the Ukrainian getting a yellow card.
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