Sports Idioms: Euro Cup Edition

We're well into the Euros now and everyone is speaking the language of sports. Ever noticed how many idioms there are in the English language that revolve around sports? So what do these idioms mean and where did they come from? We've looked into it and this is what we came up with.

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