English Collocations in Use (Advanced) Unit 27 Sports

The water polo match last weekend was hilarious. Although there was precious valuable dear( precious, valuable, dear ) little change of my favourite Croatian team to win the tournament, we fans out there were all pushing ourselves to the best bounds limits border ceiling( best, bounds, limits, border, ceiling ) to cheer for them as much as we could. We were truly having a dolphin whale shark salmon trout( dolphin, whale, shark, salmon, trout ) of time until one of hour players got hurt. Although the team was awarded got received not( awarded, got, received, not ) a penalty, he couldn't recover and the team had to continue with a smaller number of players, but still managed to take show put hold send( take, show, put, hold, send ) up a determined performance. Sitting in the crowd reaching fever utter complete total high( fever, utter, complete, total, high ) pitch every time they scored was an amazing feeling, but all of us went completely sad desperate tough wild( sad, desperate, tough, wild ) when our player Rokovicz scored an own individual incredible ultimate( own, individual, incredible, ultimate ) goal. We'd all forgiven him, however, the opponent team jumped at the gap chance players illusion situation( gap, chance, players, illusion, situation ) and quickly broke down up apart through off( down, up, apart, through, off ) our defence in the last minutes.