back four

noun

1. soccer the defensive players in many modern team formations: usually two fullbacks and two centre backs

Example Sentences

They should maximize their efforts to bring back four of them.

From Los Angeles Times

If I’m hopeful about anything, it’s that a majority of Americans will feel that things in this country have worked, if far from perfectly, then well enough since its founding that perhaps maybe we shouldn’t chuck our values and grounding principles just because eggs and gas cost more than they did when the pandemic-ravaged economy was on its back four years ago.

From Los Angeles Times

Yes, injuries meant the Gunners finished with an unfamiliar back four, but they will have been thinking that if they could maintain their shape, and almost turn the game into a training-ground exercise, they should have been able to keep Arne Slot’s side out.

From BBC

Arsenal have plenty of heart, as they demonstrated here as they ended battling to keep Liverpool at bay with a back four of Thomas Partey, Ben White, Jakub Kiwior and 18-year-old Myles Lewis-Skelly.

From BBC

In 2016, Donald Trump flipped the three traditionally Democratic “rust belt” states that used to be the heart of the American manufacturing industry but Joe Biden won them back four years later.

From BBC