Meanings of defensive header in English

Happily for him, his defensive header from a free-kick by Marc Abrighton flew just wide.

But Livingston equalised a minute later when David Bingham capitalised on a poor defensive header from Peter Canero.

Gerrard made another crucial contribution with a defensive header on the line at the beginning of the second half.

A deflected Jermaine Hylton effort drew another good stop from Hladky before Conor McCarthy's defensive header cleared his own crossbar.

Home keeper Wayne Hennessey had to take flight to claw a desperate defensive header out from his top left-hand corner.

As they pressed to cancel out Gerald Sibon's first-half header, the Dutch striker's defensive header from a corner spun out to the 19-year-old.

But to appreciate this goal properly it would be necessary to go back to the fact it was Shaw's defensive header that began the breakaway.

Issa Diop's defensive header was nodded by Stevens into the path of Mousset who placed a first-time volley into the bottom left of the goal.

Against Bournemouth, he twice won really important defensive headers when the ball was flung dangerously into the box.

The indecision that has dogged them all season manifested itself with skewed defensive headers or jittery clearances -and cost them both of Porto's goals.