Object

• free-kick: But Iraq's midfielder Razak Mousa minimized the gap three minutes later as he headed home a deflected free-kick.

• asteroid: They could be used to deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.

• criticism: The curator pointed me to this book with alacrity, perhaps to deflect criticism into a safe sphere.

• shot: A deflected shot by a defender resulted in a corner kick.

• attention: Ms Tennant's words deflect attention from the simple truths above.

• blame: Equally, they may deflect blame by blaming others, eg doctors.

Preposition: over

• bar: With forty minutes gone Jarvis saw a close range shot deflected over the bar.

Preposition: into

• path: His drive deflected straight into the path of Hunt.

• net: His second was a cracking volley, deflected into the net.

Adjective complement

• past: They pulled one back when Rob Saunders deflected past Chuck Martini before the second was headed in.

Modifying Another Word

• magnetically: Missiles are deflected magnetically without touching the shield surface.

• behind: Bent moved away from Henrik Pedersen in the 11th minute and saw his shot from the edge of the box deflected behind.

• away: His effort was deflected away from the top corner by a flying one handed save.

• easily: A strong magnet held on one side of the hand can easily deflect a compass needle on the other side of the same hand.

• almost: His cross was almost deflected in by Wayne Brown before Weller stooped to nod home.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• off: In between the Hucknall attacks Cole saw his stinging volley deflected off Smith for a corner.

• over: From the resulting free kick the ball broke free in the area only for the shot to be deflected over.

Followed by a transitive particle

• off: David Thompson took the free kick which deflected off the wall for a corner.

Particle object: off_obj

• defender: It does not matter what happens after ( i.e. whether the ball deflects off a defender or not ) it is still offside.

• wall: David Thompson took the free kick which deflected off the wall for a corner.