Juventino[RUS];3195652 said:
yes because when we lost match who is to blame firstl? worst players! Grygera, Motta, Poulsen etc. who'll criticize Del Piero or Gigi firstly? Nobody except some freaks! i think u'll understand whole point
No, I still do not understand why anyone of right mind, who had watched juve last season, and seen Motta hugely our most consistently awful player on the field, and then refer to him as a scapegoat. Its nonsense. By labelling him as a scapegoat, he must be a scapegoat FOR something...in this case, our abject failure last term (I assume). If Motta is a scapegoat, he is been used by some others, unfairly, to take the weight of blame for our abject failure last term. By calling him a scapegoat, you are suggesting he played no part in our failure, or at best, a very minor part far less heavy than the others in the team around him...
Hopefully you will understand the phrase now??? Its someone taking the blame in place of others.
I guess in American English it would be near to a patsy???