Five minutes later, the Basque went even closer when his left-foot strike from 20 yards came back off the foot of the post.
The Manchester United striker misplayed a bouncing corner kick in the 87th minute, getting only the back of his right foot on it.
Playing with a makeshift defence in Germany, United - who had already clinched a place in the last 16 - needed at least a draw to finish top of their group and were on the back foot for much of the match.
Indeed, spotting mispriced securities seems to be the financial world's latest parlour game: Royal Bank of Canada was this week forced on to the back foot after one of its traders told a newspaper that it had mismarked government-agency and corporate bonds.
It should have been 3-1 when Bale's trickery down the left prompted a terrible clearance from Rafael Schmitz that landed at Berbatov's feet, but his effort crashed back off the foot of the post.
But early in the second Gammer connected with a sweet, short left to the point of Barrett's chin, momentarily stunning the Galway fighter and putting him on the back foot for the remainder of the round.
But when Chester brought on Michael Twiss for Ryan Sugden it paid instant dividends and, against the run of play, Twiss drove a left-foot shot into the back of the net from 18 yards after a Darryl Clare pass.
The Scottish side may have been on the back foot for much of the game.
England were on the back foot for much of the first half and they conceded again just before half time when Kasold deflected home a cross.
Like we did to Michael (Vaughan), we kept him on the back foot in terms of his performance and as a captain you know that pressure grows very quickly.
The bodies were eventually washed back into towards the foot of the cliff and a team member was put down the cliff on lines in order to recover them.
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You can tell a guy has raced before when you see him whip out a tube of super glue to stick a flap of skin back onto his foot.
Ghana, who reached the quarterfinals of the 2010 World Cup, also held in South Africa, eased into a two-goal lead despite being on the back foot for most of the opening exchanges.
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But it was the briefest of honeymoons for Cook, lasting only until the last ball of the eighth over, when he played a half-hearted force off the back foot to a ball well wide of off-stump - and to the delight of the bowler Hilfenhaus, Michael Hussey dived expertly in the gully to take a fine one-handed catch.
At Ibrox, especially in the first half, they put Rangers on the back foot and controlled much of the play.
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Spreads, weaker data, and EUR option expiries at 1.3000-05 should manage to put the single currency on the back foot for the remainder of the week.
The industry has been on the back foot in the face of these trends with sales - excluding door-to-door transactions - at their lowest level in a decade.
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"Right now, the Taliban are on the back foot, " said one of the village fighters, Hajji Abdul Ghanan.
Second, it reflects the first sign of Downing Street trying to get onto the offensive after spending most of the year on the back foot, from the omnishambles Budget onwards.
Britain were on the back foot from the opening end of the play-off after lead curler Byers missed a routine take-out to allow Edin to patiently play out for a 2-0 lead.
West Brom's back-to-back home wins over Tottenham and Manchester City last month dragged them back towards the pack at the foot of the Premier League table, and Greening reckons it is their form at the Hawthorns that will determine whether they can survive.
"A few injuries intervened in the series which kind of pushed us onto the back foot, but the guys stepped up and did well with the bat - Shiv (Chanderpaul) didn't play this Test match but Narsingh Deonarine chipped in well and Brendan Nash, " he commented.
With Ganguly playing a range of fine shots off front and back foot, Agarkar could have dropped anchor.
But at the next, Casey holed a monster 25-foot birdie putt from the back of the green to take the title.
That final elevation allowed the back of our long sofa to meet the base of the apartment's original 20-foot-high studio window, which continues up to the second level.
Three-foot fronds of dill swayed back and forth, their brimming umbels of flat seeds spilling everywhere, and the lemon balm crept across the brick border when no one was looking.
It took a moment of magic from Kaka for Real to draw level with 17 minutes to play, as the Brazil midfielder curled in a right-foot shot to bring back memories of his days as one of the world's best players.
Dutch enforcer Mark van Bommel was booked after going through the back of Iniesta, while Nigel de Jong was lucky to escape red after planting his foot in the chest of Xabi Alonso.
Back near the finish line, at the foot of police barricades, a makeshift shrine sits at the corner of Boylston and Berkeley streets.
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Stevenage had won three of their previous four games and drawn the other, and they started brightly with Gravesend spending much of the first 20 minutes on the back foot.
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