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What does "pick out" mean in a football (soccer) context?

LIVERPOOL 1-1 CITY
70, What a finish from Foden, from the tightest of angles he has picked out the bottom corner with a rasping shot.
Man City are level, they have responded.
Jesus made the run in from the right and slid it in to Foden down the left, and the local lad fired Pep's men level.

5min - City hemmed in
Long ball from James Milner picks out Sadio Mane’s dart. He’s forced wide and City eventually deal with the danger.

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Essentially the meaning is to select, highlight or point to someone, something or somewhere from a number of other possibilities. Here, the picking out is by the ball landing in that position. "Sadio Mane’s dart" is Mane's fast move somewhere on the pitch, the same place that Milner directs the ball to.
Thanks for the explanation. What about 'pick out the bottom corner with a rasping shot?" Does it mean to select the bottom corner with a rasping shot?
More importantly, the ball landed there. He might have selected that spot as his target, but if he kicked the ball poorly so that it went somewhere else, then you could not use "pick out".

It is, I suppose, analogous to picking out something on a screen during a presentation by using a light pointer.
I get it now. Thanks for the succint explanation. Is there any other way to say that other than "pick out" I might hear from the commentator?
Yes, that's also what I've heard before

You might also hear commentators say e.g "Mahrez tries to find the top corner..."
Every definition in the WRF dictionary has a link below the headword which gives you synonyms for that word. These commentators might decide on pick out a choice or selection etc....
select - WordReference.com English Thesaurus

Edit: look for is normally what you do before you decide on where to aim, but it can also be a short form of that process of 1) looking 2) deciding and 3) kicking: He looks for the upper right corner but a defender heads it away.
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