goalwardadj.adv.

1852 Meanderings of Memory I. 131 With a giddy foot and goal-ward rush.

1896 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 3 May 21/6 The Daffodils fall back into position, each goal defender breathing inward petitions that it may be her proud duty to check the ball in its goalward flight.

1922 Mansfield (Ohio) News 19 Nov. 13/5 Wooster started another goalward march and the visitors' line could not withstand the attack.

1959 G. Levinger in D. Cartwright Stud. in Social Power vi. 84 Those properties of the individual which are perceived by other members of the group as relevant to their goalward locomotion.

2015 Oxf. Mail (Nexis) 30 Mar. The game was seemingly over in the ninth minute when Jimmy Deabill's goalward header was blocked on the line by the arm of Nathan Summers.

1859 Salem Directory 3 Haste not: the flying charger over-heated dies; While step by step the patient camel goalward flies.

1890 Liverpool Mercury 10 Feb. 7/8 Galbraith, after running down hard, drove home, the ball grazing the post in its progress goalward.

a1910 J. L. Cuthbertson Carlton v. Geelong in Barwon Ballads & School Verses (1912) 303 A song with a rattle that tells of the battle, That tells of the knocks and the shocks of the fray—Of kicks that slow-soaring go goalward, and scoring May settle the fortune and fate of the day.

1940 Jrnl. Educ. Soc. 14 116 Where the proposed route to the goal can be sensed by the animal or person as relevant to goal attainment..energies are released and focused goalward relatively successfully.

1972 Times 13 Mar. 6/2 His centre was flicked goalward from the top of the circle by Evans as the goalkeeper rushed out.

2014 Daily Tel. 10 Sept. (Sport section) 7/4 Andy King rose well, but could not divert his header goalward.