Philip Ball gives a passionate defence of the importance of engineering and Oliver Morton, a colleague at the Economist, paints the planet as a dynamic orb.

Phhilip Ball激昂地辩护工程学的重要性；TE同仁Oliver Morton把地球描绘成动态的天体。

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In modern football, it is difficult to get in behind the opposition defence, as teams are often very compact at the back with eight or nine players behind the ball.

6“在现代足球当中，很难撕破对方防线，因为球队通常在后场有8到9名球员的密集防守。

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They play on instinct, which really eases the pressure on our defence because we usually have the ball.

他们的球风已是习惯成自然，给球队防守减轻了不少压力，因为我们通常总能控住球。

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Carvalho was again involved, threading the ball through the Sporting defence, Zhirkov slipping the ball past Ricardo.

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However, a long ball out of defence from Gary Caldwell caused havoc in the Shakhtar defence and, when Razvan Rat and Dmytro Chygrynsky collided, Jarosik pounced to blast the ball into far corner.

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Brady sent a free-kick to the edge of the penalty area, where McGregor headed the ball behind the Hibs defence and Dargo stole in to slot the ball wide of the exposed Brown.

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