How to understand "scuff"
In "The English team’s star striker races down the left, arcs his run to open up an angle for the shot . . . and scuffs it horribly." could you please tell me how to understand "scuffs it horrible"? The sentence is from a book about football. Thank you!

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"Scuff" means "to scrape against (something)".  The player wanted to kick the ball directly, but failed to do so.

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