What is a “brace” in football?

Correct — C. In football a brace is two goals scored by one player in a single match. Three by one player is a hat-trick.

The word keeps its older sense of a pair, as in a brace of pheasants → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Two consecutive wins — Two consecutive wins describe results across matches. A brace is counted inside a single match, and it counts goals scored by one player.
• (b)
  Two yellow cards — Two yellow cards in the same match add up to a sending-off: under Law 12 of the Laws of the Game, a second caution brings a red card. That is not a brace.
• (d)
  Saving two penalties — Saving two penalties is a goalkeeper's feat, not a scorer's. A brace refers to goals scored, two of them, by one player in a match.

Football counts a player's goals in a match with fixed words: a brace for two and a hat-trick for three. The terms belong to one player, so a team whose two goals come from two different scorers has no brace.

The other 'two' among the options, two yellow cards, is a disciplinary matter: a second caution in the same match means a sending-off.

Key facts

• Brace: two goals scored by one player in a single match.
• Hat-trick: three goals scored by one player in a single match.
• In cricket, a hat-trick is three wickets off three successive balls by one bowler.
• A second caution (yellow card) in the same match means a sending-off (red card).

Common traps

• Crediting a brace to the team. It is two goals by one player, so two scorers with a goal each make no brace.
• Picking two yellow cards because both options say two. Two cautions lead to a red card, which has its own name.

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