What do the numbers in the parenthesis next to the final score of a soccer match represent?

Question

For example in Germany's win over Costa Rica, Yahoo's site shows the score like this: 4:2 (2:1)

What do the numbers in the parenthesis represent?

Answer 1

The score of the game at have time.
One of the teams is asign as the home team and the other as visitng team. The score of the game is display x : y, where :
*The first number (in this case x) reference the home team score,
* : is used to separate the score
* The second number (in this case y) reference the visiting team score

The score 4:2 (2:1), means
* 4:2 The final score was 4 goals for the home team and 2 goals for the visitng team
* (2:1), show how the score was at the end of the first half time: 2 goals for the home team and 1 goal for the visiting team.

Answer 2

One of the teams is asign as the home team and the other as visitng team. The score of the game is display x : y, where : *The first number (in this case x) reference the home team score, * : is used to separate the score * The second number (in this case y) reference the visiting team score So with this in mind, we have that 3:2 and 2:3 have diferent meaning, but both of them refer 5 goals 3:2 means 3 goals for the home team and 2 goals for the visiting team (home team won) 2:3 means 2 goals for the home team and 3 goals for the visiting team (home team lost) The score 0:2 (0:1), means * 0:2 The final score was 0 goals for the home team and 2 goals for the visitng team * (0:1), show how the score was at the end of the first half time: 0 goals for the home team and 1 goal for the visiting team.

Answer 3

The numbers in parenthesis represents the score at halftime, the goals that each team scored in the first half.

Answer 4

In parenthesis is the score at half time

Answer 5

The score that the game had at half time

Answer 6

usually indicates the half-time score..

Answer 7

the score at half time!